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jsheard on March 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wine 3.3 has Vulkan support

Case in point: Id Software are heavily pushing Vulkan with their IdTech6 engine, yet every IT6 game to date only runs on Windows.

Evidently they've decided that supporting Linux isn't worth the trouble even though their renderer is already portable to it.

AsyncAwait on March 3, 2018 [–]

> every IT6 game to date only runs on Windows

The new Doom runs on all the major console platforms as well, including the Nintendo Switch.

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