https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/videos/watch/6c56b7e3-b781-43f6-9fb8-f37c56dff9be 🔥 Before the Steam Machine: Who Built Linux Gaming The story: https://linuxrenaissance.com/post/steam-machine/ Like and join the channel to support more content! 👥 The people who built Linux gaming (in order of appearance) Alexandre Julliard — Wine maintainer since 1994, CTO at CodeWeavers https://www.winehq.org, Philip Rebohle — creator of DXVK (Direct3D 9/10/11 → Vulkan) https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk, Hans-Kristian Arntzen — lead of VKD3D-Proton (Direct3D 12 → Vulkan) https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton, Mike Blumenkrantz — lead developer of Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) https://www.supergoodcode.com, Erik Faye-Lund — original Zink author at Collabora https://www.collabora.com, Samuel Pitoiset — most prolific Mesa contributor 2024–2025 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hakzsam, David Airlie — RADV co-creator, Red Hat https://airlied.blogspot.com, Bas Nieuwenhuizen — RADV co-creator https://github.com/BNieuwenhuizen, Joshua Ashton — gamescope lead, HDR work https://github.com/misyltoad, Mathieu Comandon — creator of Lutris (2009) https://lutris.net, Flávio Fearn — creator of Heroic Games Launcher https://heroicgameslauncher.com, Kyle Gospodnetich — founder of Bazzite https://bazzite.gg, Pierre-Loup Griffais — Valve, the bridge to the upstream community, 👀 Watch my entire MAIN playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3KVgwMTWoO0wKgJWk3BBtB20okJvu_6q 📍 Timestamps 00:00 Intro — Steam Machine is coming 02:21 Why this matters for all Linux gamers 04:00 Wine, CodeWeavers, and 30 years of work 04:44 DXVK and VKD3D-Proton — the real magic 05:16 Mesa, RADV, and the open driver community 06:28 gamescope, Lutris, Heroic, Bazzite 07:46 Being fair to Valve — who they fund 09:05 Closing ❤️ Help Keep This Content Going Memberships: https://youtube.com/@LinuxRenaissance/join Patreon: https://patreon.com/LinuxRenaissance Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/darth Merch: https://shop.linuxrenaissance.com Zorin Pro: https://zorin.com/linuxrenaissance Keychron: https://www.keychron.com/?ref=LINUX StartMail 50% off: https://www.startmail.com/partner/?ref=mwq0ywj 📢 Join The Linux Renaissance Community On Matrix Chat Matrix v12 Space: https://matrix.to/#/%23space:fosshq.org Recommended Matrix client is "Element" from Flathub and Element X on Smartphones 🌐 Follow Linux Renaissance everywhere PeerTube: https://video.fosshq.org, Odysee: https://odysee.com/@LinuxRenaissance:1, Telegram: https://t.me/LinuxRenaissance, Mastodon: https://silversword.online/@darth, Twitter: https://x.com/darthchillash, 🎵 Music By H0ffman: https://soundcloud.com/h0ffman/sets/protracker-amiga 🙏 Linux Renaissance is supported by OPNsense: https://opnsense.org Links within this video may contain affiliate links that I receive a small commission from. #linux #valve #steammachine Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:38:39 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/lazy-static/avatars/9c56e2c1-4172-455c-9801-e3a8bad36429.gif https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/videos/watch/6c56b7e3-b781-43f6-9fb8-f37c56dff9be All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.