Linux Gaming Didn't Happen By Accident

🔥 Before the Steam Machine: Who Built Linux Gaming The story: https://linuxrenaissance.com/post/steam-machine/ Like and join the channel to support more content!

👥 The people who built Linux gaming (in order of appearance)

• Alexandre Julliard — Wine maintainer since 1994, CTO at CodeWeavers https://www.winehq.org

• Philip Rebohle — creator of DXVK (Direct3D 9/10/11 → Vulkan) https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

• Hans-Kristian Arntzen — lead of VKD3D-Proton (Direct3D 12 → Vulkan) https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

• Mike Blumenkrantz — lead developer of Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) https://www.supergoodcode.com

• Erik Faye-Lund — original Zink author at Collabora https://www.collabora.com

• Samuel Pitoiset — most prolific Mesa contributor 2024–2025 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hakzsam

• David Airlie — RADV co-creator, Red Hat https://airlied.blogspot.com

• Bas Nieuwenhuizen — RADV co-creator https://github.com/BNieuwenhuizen

• Joshua Ashton — gamescope lead, HDR work https://github.com/misyltoad

• Mathieu Comandon — creator of Lutris (2009) https://lutris.net

• Flávio Fearn — creator of Heroic Games Launcher https://heroicgameslauncher.com

• Kyle Gospodnetich — founder of Bazzite https://bazzite.gg

• Pierre-Loup Griffais — Valve, the bridge to the upstream community

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📍 Timestamps 00:00 Intro — Steam Machine is coming 02:21 Why this matters for all Linux gamers 04:00 Wine, CodeWeavers, and 30 years of work 04:44 DXVK and VKD3D-Proton — the real magic 05:16 Mesa, RADV, and the open driver community 06:28 gamescope, Lutris, Heroic, Bazzite 07:46 Being fair to Valve — who they fund 09:05 Closing

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