Microsoft Begins Landing Changes For Cross-Platform Support With Their Mesa D3D12 Code

[dylanmtaylor]

I firmly don't understand why anyone would accept the patches until DX12 runs in linux with microsoft support?

It's probably preferable to MS forking Mesa

[abott]

It's probably preferable to MS forking Mesa

It's not, because at least if they fork it, it's their issue. Their maintainer. Their pulls and syncing. Them, not Mesa. Instead, Mesa people are handling Microsuck's garbage instead of Microsuck themselves.

As long as they're okay with it/getting paid to, it's fine. But it's basically a cancerous tumor. How many others would be accepted like this by the maintainers before they said no? Why is it okay for Microsoft to do this crap with no benefit to anyone but themselves?

Microsuck needs to maintain Microsucks crap, not Mesa.

[stiiixy]

I wonder how long until I'll be able to run KDE on Arch on WSL on Windows 10 Pro on QEMU on Arch 🤔

Wouldn't it be a weird world where that worked....have you tried it yet?

[skeevy420]

Wouldn't it be a weird world where that worked....have you tried it yet?

I've never even tried running a graphical application under WSL2 let alone a desktop environment.

[lakes3]

It's not, because at least if they fork it, it's their issue. Their maintainer. Their pulls and syncing. Them, not Mesa. Instead, Mesa people are handling Microsuck's garbage instead of Microsuck themselves.

As long as they're okay with it/getting paid to, it's fine. But it's basically a cancerous tumor. How many others would be accepted like this by the maintainers before they said no? Why is it okay for Microsoft to do this crap with no benefit to anyone but themselves?

Microsuck needs to maintain Microsucks crap, not Mesa.

The very idea of using native applications with DirectX support in Linux is initially bad, because it is not cross-platform.
Much more useful from Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL.

[GI_Jack]

It's probably preferable to MS forking Mesa

Its really not. MS forked Mesa would be used by microsoft and no one else. They'd have to do the extra work of porting upstream patches or their patches every new version and would be a huuge maintenance burden of microsoft.

No one, and I mean no one, is going to use the microsoft fork because they aren't providing ANYTHING for anyone else.

I invite them to fork.

[stiiixy]

I've never even tried running a graphical application under WSL2 let alone a desktop environment.

What about now