[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

Alex Lowe lengau at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 12:11:48 UTC 2007


@Kristopher:
>From what I've seen, OpenGL is both more powerful and faster than DirectX (in fact, DirectX is still basically a copy of the OpenGL libraries). In addition, any developers who compile their games for both Mac and Windows (provided they do that by actually making just one core and making it mainly platform-agnostic) should have no trouble porting their games to *nix/X11. These game studios are scared that they'll lose money on their Linux ports, because (a) Linux ports in the past [mostly before 2002] have lost money [partially because they seldom ported it well] and (b) they don't see Linux's marketshare [mostly because it's pretty much impossible to track, so there are probably way more Linux users than people think].

That said, however, Firefox is a very different beast from most games.
Still, your point is taken and true, because some high-end games (Quake
4, for example) are available for Linux, so others should be, too.

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