Post #1480446
2026-04-04 17:57 UTC
@Arcticulate @thelinuxEXP Hope you're right, but 'good enough' via translation often becomes a permanent crutch. I’ve played F1 since the start of the CodeMasters era, it’s the only reason I still have a Windows partition. Using an entire OS as a glorified compatibility layer for one series is ridiculous. Even at 70% share, if devs like EA just rely on Valve to 'fudge' the difference, do we ever actually get first-class native support?
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@Arcticulate@toot.community 2026-04-04 20:36
@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP If this was about making full-scale desktop software like Office or Photoshop for Windows 11 vs Qt apps for the KDE that Steam uses for their Steam Deck, then my answer would be a confident ”no!”. However, games are often extremely portable, with only Direct X being a bad, proprietary citizen. Switching to only supporting Metal and Vulkan would give us Windows, Linux and Mac-native games, 100 % bypassing the critical Windows dependency.