DirectX Coming to Linux...Sort of

[Octopuss]

Not with how bad v windows 10 has gotten... more friends switching to mac or linux every day,....

What drugs are you on?
Windows 10 runs perfectly fine for vast majority of people I would say. Hundreds of millions of computers maybe?
I don't see mass exodus to Linux and macCrap headlines in newspapers.

 

[remixedcat]

newspapaers? lawlz...

what drugs are you on?

 

[Octopuss]

You make it sound like people are abandoning Windows in masses, which is as far from truth as possible, just like you claim how bad W10 has gotten.
I'm not the one on drugs here.

 

[remixedcat]

You must not hang around at much sites like I do lol.

Even normies that aren't into tech as much as me are switching..

Also it was the last straw with w 10 when it disabled my webroot anti virus and my sound drivers were completely gone. Had to roll back..

 

[betoelectrico]

You make it sound like people are abandoning Windows in masses, which is as far from truth as possible, just like you claim how bad W10 has gotten.
I'm not the one on drugs here.

It has hyperjumped from 1.5 to 1.68 since 2015 when Windows 10 was released, at this rate it will be significant before the end of the century.

/s

 

[lexluthermiester]

You must not hang around at much sites like I do lol.

Even normies that aren't into tech as much as me are switching..

Also it was the last straw with w 10 when it disabled my webroot anti virus and my sound drivers were completely gone. Had to roll back..

You should have just switch to LTSC, very stable and MS doesn't change things as much.

 

[remixedcat]

You should have just switch to LTSC, very stable and MS doesn't change things as much.

Too late now lol... oh well

 

[lexluthermiester]

Too late now lol... oh well

You could install a second HDD/SSD and dual boot(using the motherboard boot menu). Only a suggestion.

 

[remixedcat]

You could install a second HDD/SSD and dual boot(using the motherboard boot menu). Only a suggestion.

Can't on a tablet tho. Lol

 

[lexluthermiester]

Can't on a tablet tho. Lol

Ah... Fair enough.

 

[Caring1]

Can't on a tablet tho. Lol

Just curious, could a Tablet support an external boot device through an OTG usb?

 

[remixedcat]

Just curious, could a Tablet support an external boot device through an OTG usb?

Tried it and the only thing I can do is issue some EFI commands from windows recovery mode than going to the EFI commands option.



None of the known working commands let's anything boot

 

[bulmbriefs144]

I guess it could be useful if you didn't want to train a DX guy/girl in Vulkan/OpenGL since you know for sure whatever it is you're running/going to run will always run on WSL and will have access to DirectX.

But why would someone run that kind of hybrid? Wouldn't it be better to just go fully Linux + Vulkan/OpenGL/whatever-API or fully Windows + DirectX?

I honestly don't get what's Microsoft's motive for doing this.

EDIT: Adding to the growing list of questions, would it be useful for VMs? Like, have a bunch of Linux VMs running inside HyperV and using this to expose DX features to the VM in a more direct way?

For my part, I am trying to move away from Microsoft and their constant forced upgrades that trash your computer (I am literally on WIndows 8.1, which they've been pushing into obsolescence for years now). I use emulators and Windows programs. I want to keep using the programs, sure. But I am not upgrading to Windows 11 or 12 or whatever. The motive for a user to have Direct X is to have computer that can play legacy games, and certain MMOs, I suppose. I imagine Microsoft's motive is to hack Linux or something?

Ideally though, I'd rather Linux design something natively that most programs recognize as DirectX.
Just like I'd prefer Linux to up its game on program compatibility. Wine is good, but not perfect.