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Because Vulkan is incredibly close to the metal (similar to DirectX 12), this translation was incredibly efficient. Suddenly, games like The Witcher 3 and Doom were running on Linux at near-Windows frame rates.
The answer is complicated. While translation is great for gaming, developers working on game engines or graphic tools generally prefer native support. Interestingly, Microsoft has begun open-sourcing parts of DirectX (like D3D12 translation layers), largely to support their own goals with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). directx linux