Re: The key to getting more Windows users to switch to Linux

On 6/24/07, RtX [email protected] wrote:

I totally agree with you. I, and many others, have totally replaced Windows with Linux EXCEPT for games. You still can't go to the local store and get a copy of the latest kick-ass game and play it in Linux. If game vendors could get their minds around this, Windows would be in much doo doo. OpenGL has to get with it harder than they have though.

OpenGL is a graphics library standard, there is no "they" to it that makes devs use it. ;) There are tons of Windows games that used to run in OpenGL, and IIRC some still do. It's an API spec, and even MS used to be on the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. Mesa is a free work-alike implementation of the OpenGL API.

Jon.