[hibbelig]

With DirectX on WSL, you can do new things when Linux is running on Windows (via WSL). But these new things aren't possible when Linux is running another way (e.g. on the bare metal).

So people who use it are married to Windows.

I think folks would be absolutely excited if this was an initiative to allow writing DirectX applications on Linux, and available for Linux on bare metal. But as people realize this marries them to Windows, they go meh.

[monocasa]

They're not intending d3d to be the client library, they ported Mesa for OpenGL and OpenCl, and are working on a Vulkan port for all of that.