Games on Linux

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Paul Stuffins <paul.stuffins at orqoo.com>wrote:

> Don't forget that there are hundreds of distros, that may or may not use
> different versions of the same libraries. As an example, Ubuntu uses
> Gnome3, but not Gnome Shell, Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu uses a
> fork of Gnome2, Fedora uses Gnome3, with Gnome Shell. There are distros
> out there that use KDE, LXDE, and others.
>
> Do you think software developers out there can see a return on the
> investment of coding for all of the different versions of DE?
>

TSK TSK TSK You must have missed the part where the OP said "Games". I
can´t think of any games that MUST depend on a given desktop environment.
What most games need is a rectagular hole in the video display and access
to the OpenGL graphics subsystem... even better, hardware accelerated full
screen mode...

FC

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