On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:17 AM Kamil Paral <kparal(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I have installed a fresh F29 system and I was a bit surprised that Vulkan drivers
weren't present on that system, I had to manually install them (mesa-vulkan-drivers).
Vulkan is getting pretty popular lately, there are certain high-profile games on Linux
that use Vulkan *exclusively* (you can't run them on OpenGL), and there are many other
games which have Vulkan as an option, which might improve performance. The latest breaking
news were Valve enabling Wine-based compatibility layer in Steam, that can be used to run
many Windows-only games on Linux, and it's again relying on Vulkan. So Vulkan is
definitely getting mainstream.
In order to have Fedora Workstation appealing to general users, I believe it should be a
good choice for gaming (Christian wrote on his blog about considering including gamemode
by default, that also ties into this).
Is there any reason why Vulkan drivers are not installed by default in Fedora
Workstation? Is that something we can fix for F29?
The maintainers might not feel they're ready or not have the resources
to support them OOTB. The mesa/Xorg team is pretty active enabling
things by default they believe are ready.