How much does the abandonment of OpenGL in favor of Vulkan make life difficult for users?

Question

OpenGL

The HDRP version of Unity only supports Linux if Vulkan is installed. I have of course found official Nvidia and AMD support for this technology , but I'm wondering what the reality is? How well is it supported and how many users have it installed? How many people don't install new drivers? Isn't it tantamount to abandoning Linux and releasing a product only on Vulkan?

Answer 1

Vulkan is much better and faster than opengl. Right now Linux gamers are flocking to the dxvk library for wine which gives a huge performance boost.
Regarding support, I can say for AMD users, there is support with amdgpu drivers that are available on cards with GCN support, and these are Volcanic Islands and newer, there is also an experimental driver for the old Sea Islands and Southern Islands. Personally, I'm sitting on the experimental one with the r9-280x card, through dxvk many games really ran just phenomenally well.
For the owners of ancient maps, either stop and not use the volcano and some of its goodies, or buy a deshman new map from amd / nvidia.
In general, everything is fine with the volcano, specifically in Linux there is now a much more serious problem with mesa and llvm in which something is broken and owners of amd cards, regardless of the driver, in some games, both native and through wine, xorg crashes.