sorry about the confusion everyone. yeah, i'm mainly talking about us "little computers" http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/wink.gif i came to this forum just as an end user, not an...

yes, but i don't think you can tell me that games and entertainment aren't often the primary "push-the-envelope" driving force in computer technology... or maybe you can? i dunno...

I mean... the whole fiasco with Epic announcing that DirectX will be their focus in their future games... (supposedly this is "resolved" now, but I still have my doubts)... this doesn't look good.

I'm worried... to this simple-minded end user, OpenGL seems to be falling behind DirectX... http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/frown.gif

I'm no programmer or engineer, so I know things are complicated and difficult... But as a simple-minded end user, I'm seeing that DirectX is starting to surpass OpenGL in temrs of new features. I...

What about Linux? And what about catching up to DirectX 8 features!!?? I hope OpenGL will do something, cuz Micro$ucks is getting it's tentacles pretty tight in this area...

Yeah, I'm a Linux newbie and have been disappointed with the game support. There's also a lot of talk (on slashdot, linuxnewbie, and other forums) about how OpenGL is seriously falling behind...