DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

gr8_phk writes "As reported over at Phoronix, the Direct X 11 API now has an open source implementation on top of Gallium3d which should ease porting of games to Linux with or without Wine. While still in its infancy, you can see where this is heading. All this while Microsoft hasn't offered DX11 for their own aging WindowsXP. Could it be that Linux may soon support this Microsoft API better than Microsoft itself?"

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Re:XP? Forget XP!

[metrix007]

You're full of shit.

Debatable. I prefer XP's minimalist looks.

The default Aero interface is far, far more minimalist than the fisher-price horror that was XP. Both 7 and XP allow you to go back to the classic UI.

Bollocks to that. I went from XP to 7 at work and now having 2 VM's running at once makes my entire system chug (E6600, 4 GB RAM, 2 windows VM's should run fine). 7 is only fast if you're doing nothing with it, utter shite resource management.

Using a CPU with VT support? I am, and I know that I can run 3 VM's simultaneously with either Hyper-V or VirtualBox. I doubt I could even run one on XP without performance slowdown.

If I want to change my network settings I have to navigate through 7 "helpful" windows wizards before being able to manually set my IP address. No Windows, I dont need you to diagnose the problem, I know the problem. What's that, you want me to contact my Systems Administrator, I AM THE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR.

Well, this is because you are ignorant. Go to manage adpaters, right click on adapter and select properties, and then modify the ip setting for tcp/ip. 3 steps. There is also netsh if you want to do it from the commandline.

Nothing wrong with the Windows 7 install, apart from the fact it installs Windows 7.

What an eloquent point of argument.

Clearly the GP has never tried to contact Microsoft support. As an enterprise customer they've been nothing but useless.

You're doing something wrong. Not surprising given the poor knowledge you have of Windows so far. Microsoft have first rate support.

Well you may consider United Arab Emirates security to be good but it's not what I look for in an OS. Introducing Windows Dubai, Burka edition.

You were probably aware he was referring to UAC, which is actually a great feature, and far more flexible than what is available in unix land.

Its just as annoying, the only difference is I can copy a file with just one UAC popup, not three. Still occurs far too often and takes over whatever I am doing.

It never "takes over". God. Try copying some files to / as a normal user on most linux distros and see if they don't do the same thing. If you're getting too many prompts, you are probably using the system incorrectly. Set up the system as an administrator and then use it as a user, is that so hard?

* Uses more system resources. Running VMware or playing games is severely affected.
* USB Storage is more painful. Not just the "scan and fix" dialouge with each USB Drive but I installed the Android SDK and now it refuses to recongise my milestone as a Mass Storage device (only computer in the lab that does this)
* UI demands more attention, default settings are painful.
* Important system config utilities are hidden behind bad and useless wizard.

*7 uses significant less resources. I would guess what happened with you is you have a non standard install, ie you bought a computer from dell and are using 7 with all the crap dell installs along with it.
*Teh scan and fix thing only comes up if you use flash drives under both linux and windows. This is because vfat while compatible with fat32, is not fat32.
*UI demands more attention? What? Have you tried Ubuntu recently?
*No important utilities are hidden at all. You're just ignorant.