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What keeps many people on Windows are games. Valve, through Steam, has made monetization of Linux games more viable. So now there are many titles available on
by partycoder 10y ago
What keeps many people on Windows are games.
Valve, through Steam, has made monetization of Linux games more viable. So now there are many titles available on Linux compared to years ago.
There's still a gap, but I hope that Vulkan gets traction and becomes the de-facto standard rather than DirectX. DirectX was pushed through a lot of FUD controversy during the evil years of Microsoft (they claimed that in future Windows versions OpenGL was going to be put behind a compatibility layer with a performance hit, and developers freaked out and moved to DirectX. Then it didn't happen).
- swiley 10y agoAs much as I hate to say it, opengl still has issues in comparison to DirectX. Just getting an opengl context is comparatively quite difficult and that still doesn't give you input or audio.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoSDL does, though.
- ekianjo 10y agoYes, but the performance of OpenGL drivers for complex scenes has improved drastically in the past few years. nVidia is mainly to thank for that.
- contingencies 10y agoAlso, perhaps through growing consumer exposure to mobile, it feels like the graphical (and input complexity!) expectations for games have actually dropped recently relative to their traditional acceleration or stability. It's really only high resolution FPS and strategies that demand the full capabilities of modern desktop/console-level graphics processing.