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Solve : Microsoft Launches .Net for Linux and Mac?

Answer» http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-launches-its-net-distribution-for-linux-and-mac/

Now all they need to do is port DirectX for Linux and I'd be loving it!!!

The only thing holding me back from making Linux my main platform is the lack of DirectX for gaming performance. In order to play my vast collection of games, I have to stick with Windows.

I have tried running games through Linux and Wine and OpenGL and the performance of games that do run lags severely in frames per second such as a video card that would get 60+ FPS would be 8 to 15 FPS such as when playing World of Warcraft under Linux Mint through Wine and OpenGL video drivers for both AMD and nVidia cards when tested with both.

If I could play all games without issues on Linux Mint with DirectX support it would be a perfect gaming ENVIRONMENT for me. Not going to hold my breath on this one though as for Microsoft is not likely to hand away DirectX to the open source community when they want to SELL Windows and for gamers that play titles that havent been ported through steam etc, it MEANS that they will retain customers of Windows for gaming.

If there was only a way to wrap the DirectX to MAKE it work under Linux that would be awesome. The .NET Platform runs on top of the OS. So Roslyn and the various language compilers can be independent of the OS. DirectX is something of a different beast, since it uses Windows-only technologies (COM) in it's interface, and IMPLEMENTATION.


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