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by shmerl 3165 days ago
RedHat and Valve do way more for Linux gaming than Canonical. So I agree with the above, Canonical's decisions aren't affecting Linux gaming that much.
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jhasse 3164 days ago
If that was the case, why doesn't Valve support Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, but Canonical's Ubuntu?
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shmerl 3164 days ago
Because Valve assume majority of users are using Ubuntu or derivatives. Which doesn't contradict what I said above. RedHat developers contribute a lot to Mesa. Canonical isn't exactly known to do that.
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jhasse 3164 days ago
If the majority of Linux gamers use Ubuntu, that means that Canonical has something to do with gaming on Linux ;)
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shmerl 3164 days ago
Something yes, but not improving it directly. Besides, Ubuntu proper isn't even the most used distro probably. Mint is likely more used.

My point is, those who work on Mesa (OpenGL / Vulkan) and Linux graphics stack have way more direct impact of Linux gaming (they are fixing bugs that affect games, improve performance, add new functionality and so on).

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