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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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OpenDX: An Open Source DirectX implementation for Linux, providing native support for DirectX-based applications and games! (github.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because DirectX apps typically do not only call into DirectX but also the win32 API, since DirectX has historically been a windows-only API. Merging this into mesa would only bloat mesa while not really offering support for many applications at all.

This is a great project in general, but it's quite overshadowed by DXVK which does the same except it translates DX calls to vulkan ones and has excellent success rates in proton and derivatives. I guess this is mildly useful for systems that don't support vulkan but want to run DX apps in raw wine or simply for people who wish not to use DXVK - competition is good for the ecosystem.