Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries

In early 2017 Microsoft open-sourced their DirectX shader compiler and shortly thereafter it's been possible to build it on Linux while finally as of this week Microsoft has begun providing official Linux binaries of their shader compiler...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-DX-Shader-Linux-Build

[xpris]

This is used also by AMDVLK for raytracing.

[TemplarGR]

"Microsoft is evil" and "embrace extend extinguish" comments arriving in 1-2-3....

[mirmirmir]

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I'll bite

[trex]

"Microsoft is evil"

I mean they are

[skeevy420]

This is used also by AMDVLK for raytracing.

ROFL. Speaking of AMDVLK, not having "dxc" was my latest build error so I'm really hoping that installing directx-shader-compiler is going to fix building TkG's amdvlk-opt...that and figuring out that I needed to comment out lines 64-65 of the PKGBUILD since that's not necessary anymore...wish I'd have referenced Arch's package first...it would have saved 15 minutes of Googling and commit history browsing.

[Volta]

"Microsoft is evil" and "embrace extend extinguish" comments arriving in 1-2-3....

You have a problem when people say the truth?

[dimko]

You have a problem when people say the truth?

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
(sorry, had to be said )

[Alliancemd]

Since Windows started supporting GUI applications through WSL, our company forced(VPN disabled for Linux users) all the people(a few hundred of them) working on Linux to switch to Windows and work from there, through WSL - main reason being that Windows is easier to manage for Administrators and now Microsoft offers them an option to get rid of native Linux.
I said this will happen with corporations when they first announced WSL...

[user1]

Since Windows started supporting GUI applications through WSL, our company forced(VPN disabled for Linux users) all the people(a few hundred of them) working on Linux to switch to Windows and work from there, through WSL - main reason being that Windows is easier to manage for Administrators and now Microsoft offers them an option to get rid of native Linux.
I said this will happen with corporations when they first announced WSL...

And this right here is the reason I don't understand why some people insist that "Microsoft loves Linux" ≠ EEE.