Has this ever worked? Even now it seems that hardly any vendors put out linux software and when they do it's garbage that tries to import shared libraries that existed on ubuntu 13.04 or something. Almost all the hardware support on linux came from people in the linux space reverse engineering and developing those drivers which are then in a state that can be upstreamed.
The wine/proton project has had far far more impact than decades of posting on game forums asking for a linux build.
> Almost all the hardware support on linux came from people in the linux space reverse engineering and developing those drivers which are then in a state that can be upstreamed.
Almost all sounds like exaggeration, Intel&AMD have done a lot, and even ARM vendors have contributed lot of drivers. See for example LWN author stats for employers, plenty of HW vendors there: https://lwn.net/Articles/902854/
The wine/proton project has had far far more impact than decades of posting on game forums asking for a linux build.