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Skill issue. Vulkan is intended to be unopinionated around those things. If you want defaults then use a wrapper.

P.s. devices and queues are generally ordered for simple programs you can just pick the 1st one.

Of course it is a skill issue, I'm not afraid of admitting I'm not smart enough for Vulkan. That so many people have skill issues is the reason why Cuda trumps and will continue to trump Vulkan despite being vendor-locked. If you want people to actually use Vulkan, you need to remove barriers to skill-issued people like me. Poor third party wrappers like VMA that barely address one out of hundreds of issues aren't going to accomplish that, you need to resolve barriers in the core API. With a design like Cuda where there is always a default easy path, and a complex but optional path.

Of course, which is why no one is racing to adopt Vulkan, and since last year they have started multiple activities to try to turn Vulkan around to be usable for everyone, not only AAA game engines experts.

Do you want the Vulkanised 2025 and 2026 talks where this is discussed and acknowledged as a problem for Vulkan adoption?

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