… That's the main component of Proton as well, so this gives you half of the Linux support you need. The other half was to rewrite the shader pipeline in DX11, so it could be converted as well. The first step to translating D3D11 to Vulkan, is to not translate D3D11 to Vulkan. …
… Related Nvidia stopped supporting my GPU, so I started self-hosting LLMs with it I self-support my gpu now because Nvidia won't I went with the Vulkan variant of llama.cpp for this project Getting GPU passthrough working was the easy part Let me make this clear: Ollama is a fantastic local LLM prov… …
… The A733 has an Imagination PowerVR B-Series BXM-4-64 MC1 with full Vulkan 1.3 support, and a VeriSilicon AIPU rated at 3 TOPS for INT8 inference. The Pi 5 has a VideoCore VII GPU with its own Vulkan support and no NPU at all. …
… Direct3D calls have to go somewhere, and on Linux, the most practical modern target is Vulkan. DXVK translates those Direct3D calls to Vulkan, which Linux handles natively and efficiently. …
… Related Linux gaming still breaks in ways that make normal people give up Casual PC gamers simply can't be bothered Frictionless multi-launcher support The ecosystem advantage shows Valve deserves full credit for carrying Linux gaming as far as it has come. …
… Related Valve's SteamOS has already won the war on Windows It's getting too late for Microsoft to fight back AMD's Vulkan drivers are magical on Linux And Windows can't compete. …
… While Proton, Vulkan, and Mesa finally cracked widespread game compatibility, high performance, and seamless driver support, respectively, the Steam Deck became the showcase to bring this modern Linux avatar to the masses. …
… FEX was originally an independent project maintained by a small team of enthusiasts who wanted to run x86 Linux applications on Arm64 devices. Valve has supported and sponsored its development for several years now, and the project has been accelerating since. …
… It just needs the platform support on the other side of the device tree to bind to. That platform support is what the linux-sunxi community has been quietly building on the A733. …
… WSL2 ships a real Linux kernel inside Windows, with GPU acceleration for compute workloads and GUI app support through WSLg. It is a remarkable shift from a company whose CEO once called Linux "a cancer," and it is now a standard part of how many developers work on Windows. …