RasBas wrote: > aww shoot! > > Well I may have to reconsider the partition solution once again, it seems. > > I looked up the words 'opengl game, and found this game list: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs > > It says among other tings, that Portal 2 in the Mac-version i OpenGL: > "Portal 2 (Mac OS X version) (upcoming)" > > Does this then mean, that if I would want to run Portal 2 on my Ubuntu computer, then I should buy the mac-version?! > > (And seriously, how weird is it, that it's the Mac version that's the most open-source?!) > > Btw - sorry for my newbieness, I am just hopelessly in love with the open-source concept, and so utterly tired of both Win and Mac - so I am just trying to learn about the alternative's possibilities. The Mac version of Portal 2 will only run on Macs... not Linux. Mac OS X is not Linux. Portal 2 like all source games are really made for DirectX. Source engine games have a serious downgrade in performance on Macs, and its not because of OpenGL, but because Source isn't truly native OpenGL. Its sort of like Wine in a way where there is a bit of DirectX->OpenGL changing going on. Actually some of the Windows versions run in Wine just as fast as the native Mac versions on the same computer.
