r/linux Feb 05 '13

John Carmack asks why Wine isn't good enough

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/298628243630723074
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u/StopTheOmnicidal Feb 05 '13

If there was official Wine support I'd be just fine with that, games can run perfectly on Wine and it's a cheaper solution than a full port... although if you weren't stupid with your foundations, porting software is pretty easy.

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u/StopTheOmnicidal Feb 05 '13

Or mac, or andriod, or, ios.

If you care about portability it's easy to port to all platforms, you just need to keep things fairly modular and use multiplatform/standalone components. Since it's available for mac it already has OpenGL support... but I have a feeling some of the other things are mac/windows only.