Philip Rebohle, DXVK’s founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project “to get one specific game to work”. Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.
Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn’t nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It’s fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn’t exist in its current form if not for one guy’s appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.
Can confirm, I’m just hitting my first year of using Tumbleweed as my main OS after giving up on Microsoft. It plays almost everything without issue. The very few things I boot into Windows for are games that I want to use Autohotkey with, old games that don’t work well with Proton, or VR.
if you are using ahk for things like macros, xbindkeys is your friend! It allows you to bind any command to a key or combo.
if you’re on wayland there’s no real alternative, as usual.
On wayland, switch to ydotool (the port of xdotool)