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Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Not really. Vulkan is usually faster. Everything is already made to work with DirectX though. Legacy is the reason for it being the default, and often only, option as far as I'm aware.