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Based on some pseudorandom guy's slides about porting to Linux getting posted on Phoronix? Really? I expect that kind of reasoning from stock analysts, not HN p
by mwfunk 12y ago
Based on some pseudorandom guy's slides about porting to Linux getting posted on Phoronix? Really? I expect that kind of reasoning from stock analysts, not HN posters.
- flohofwoe 12y agoMicrosoft has indeed lost mind-share among game developers in the past years, pretty much all smaller and medium publishers which kept themselves afloat with smaller PC- and Wii- titles have now moved on to mobile, which means the dev teams have to move as well, and for many of them, OpenGLES2 instead of D3D9 will be their new main rendering API (since there are still a lot of WindowsXP machines in the world, it didn't make much sense for casual game devs to move on to D3D11). I wrote a blog post a while ago why I basically ditched DX: http://flohofwoe.blogspot.de/2013/10/farewell-directx.html http://flohofwoe.blogspot.de/2013/10/farewell-directx.html