Comment by account42
5 years ago
> Experience is quite different for big game developers that have their own engines and can't offload complexity to another layer of abstraction, supporting a lot of hardware/software combinations on Linux for them is quite hard.
Oh but they can offload that complexity to e.g. SDL [0]
As for why games like Cyberpunk 2077 are not on Linux, we can only speculate. Remember however that for a profit-focused publisher/developer the Linux port not only has to be profitable to make sense, it has to be more profitable than other things they could spend their time on.
We know for a fact that Stadia runs on Linux. We have leaked documents from CDPR hack earlier this year with details of Google's deal with CDPR. From these documents we know that Vulkan renderer exists and even how much Google paid for that.