John Carmack, the lead developer behind legendary games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, has raised questions on whether it is worth it for studios to port their games to the Linux operating system.
Carmack, during his time at Id Software and later, has always supported Linux but says that porting most games is "not commercially viable."
"The conventional wisdom is that native ... [ read the full article ]
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Programers are inherently lazy, he also made doom SUCK, that aside I think he is bitching about emulating DX/windows via open source or cheaper means than trying to do full ports. Also all this would be fixed if M$ would just let go of DX 9.X.
Doesn't this guy know what Steam are up to with their Piston Engine?
...Especially since they are busy porting games to the Mac (read OpenGLZip).
He does have a point tho in regards to the Linux desktop environment. Even Linus says it's absolute s***. Idiots won't standardise for the life of them... or accept that great programmers aren't gonna do it all for free when they need to provide for their families. There is also a need for close-source applications. They know it... YouTube the last "What's wrong with Linux" talks. Frankly I would not be surprised if Android came up with it's own formal desktop sometime... for a price (cheap).
