Thanks for sharing! I was starting to become convinced that the Linux version had been canned (or never existed). I really don't understand why CDPR doesn't just say something and just completely ignores the Linux community.
Thinking of it. Imagine such scenario (purely hypothetically):
1. CDPR decide to make TW3 for Linux.
2. Management nods to engineers to review what it would take (either they do it in-house, or they need to hire experts, if they have no Linux developers).
3. After review, engineers point out, that their engine is far from cross platform and critical middleware components (like Umbra 3D for example) are missing.
4. CDPR evaluate whether they can replace them or not. Let's say they figure out that replacing them is a monumentally hard task. They turn to Umbra developers and ask them whether it's possible to port that middleware to Linux.
5. Umbra developers say "since you are our valued customer, we'll think about it".
6. They think. Meanwhile CDPR can already start working on the prototype but with missing middleware.
7. They come back and say - "it will take us half a year" (may be it involves CDPR paying them?).
8. CDPR developers wait for half a year, and have no clue whether Umbra actually would succeed or not - it's not in their hands.
9. If we are lucky, Umbra (and the rest of missing middleware pieces) produce the Linux release.
10. CDPR can go ahead and actually finish the game (and probably at that point they can comfortably announce their plans).
I suspect things are somewhere at step 5-6. Or in the best case at step 7-8. That's why no announcement was made. Just my guess of course - all that can be completely wrong and CDPR may be are waiting for Vulkan spec finalization
