While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...
I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
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While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...
I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
Indeed. ReactOS is to the full Windows stack what Wine is to the userland Windows API.
I mean they reimplemented directx without vulkan, that's indeed in a league of their own. wine/proton relies on opengl/vulkan to do anything.
Wine has had many different DirectX backends over the decades, including one before Vulkan existed obviously.
All of them relied on translation (ex: opengl). Proton specifically is focused on dx->vulkan.
Eh. It's sort of like saying FreeDOS is laughable because DOSBox exists. I think that's missing the point.
I wouldn't call it laughable. ReactOS was not created only to run half-life. It's just one of their many impressive achievements.