Games on Linux

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 16:09:17 -0700,
   Alan Evans <ame.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
>keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
>to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of
>ABI compatibility.
>
>Witness VMWare basically recompiling itself every time the user
>updates his kernel. No game developer wants that kind of headache.

That applies to device drivers, not user space. Differing library versions 
and limitations of graphics support are more likely to be an issue than 
the kernel.