Support for Microsoft Basic Render Driver

[jakubkaczor]

It is very nice for Zed to get closer to cross-platform with the Windows support release! Unfortunately, in my case, it still cannot be used on this platform. In this discussion, I just wanted to make the community aware about the use case if it wasn't considered before.

At work, I need to connect to Windows 365 Cloud PC using Windows App. IDEs like Visual Studio Code or JetBrains' PyCharm work pretty good. Unfortunately, after setting ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1, which is required, the performance is significantly worse than its counterparts, to the point of being unusable.

I suppose supporting Microsoft Basic Render Driver is very costly to implement. Despite, perhaps this use case is not uncommon in commercial settings, and could find its place on the roadmap.