Quoting: CreakOpenGL is not a bad API. A few years ago, when it was OpenGL 3.3, it was largely better than DirectX

I've read a very interesting and thorough history of D3D vs OpenGL, from the early '90s till today, on StackExchange:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055 [External Link]

D3D was substantially worse than OpenGL until DX8 came out. Then things changed forever and D3D won the battle.

Quoting: Creakthe skilled people went on the Microsoft side. That means that any tutorial or training now are made for DX, not for OpenGL. So it's more difficult now to write efficient OpenGL code, but completely doable.

That's true and is a very big problem. Documentation and programmers know how is orders of magnitude more on the DX side.
Also, the last advocate of OpenGL in the gaming world, John Carmack, is not in the industry any more.

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War Thunder is the proof that Linux performance can be on par with Windows, if the game is programmed in the right way. I play WT under both operating systems and I can't see any difference at all.

Unfortunately, later DX->OGL ports done by an external developer will, most of the time, be sub optimal because of budget constraints, which make impossible to rewrite the engine and so require the use of a translation layer. We must accept it as a fact of life.

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Speaking of surround sound, I played my first game with it in 2004, it was Doom 3 with a SB Audigy 2 ZS.
Eleven (!!!) years later I still use the same audio card (lol), but we have just a handful of games that support positional audio under Linux.
I just bought A:I and sadly discovered that surround doesn't work under Linux. I don't need to tell anybody how important surround audio is for a survival horror game, do I.
So I had to reinstall the game under Windows and now I can play it in all its magnificency (is it a word?). What a game!

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Yet another indie sandbox game. Usually I find them boring rather quickly . Let's hope this one will be different, somehow.

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The intro of EOB2 is one of the best I've ever experienced in ~30 years of gaming...

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Embrace the proprietary drivers

Not in a thousand years, sorry.

Be friendly and supportive to proprietary software developers.

This I can do.

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I had no Windows partition on my PC till 4 months ago. Then I bought a GTX970, a new SSD, upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and (god, please, have mercy of my soul) installed Windows 8!
Why?
Because of Skyrim (10€ on Steam, couldn't resist) and Elite Dangerous....

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Frankly, I'm not holding my breath.
I doubt it will go from the current 20-30fps to the 70-90fps that I can get under Windows with a single patch... we'll see.

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Gorgeous!
I like all those colors.

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Quoting: liamdawewell, I think it's a Unity game, so the source wouldn't be all that useful.

I don't see why you would comment that on this anyway?

Didn't know it's Unity based.
Anyway, I thought: it's free/gratis, has creative commons sounds, and it's clearly not a multimillion investment (the graphical assets are 3 little pngs)... it's the perfect candidate for an open source release on github.
It has an interesting retro style and it's well made, I think reading the code could be a good learning experience for some young developer...

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