If you have OpenGL installed, you can get information about version that you are using by typing this command in terminal - glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL version' To check your compatibility or for more information you can refer to this link. So it depends on which GPU you are using. Supporting OpenGL on Linux involves using GLX extensions to the X Server. Graphics on Linux is almost exclusively implemented using the X windows system. If we only consider the graphics part of of DX then I found OpenGL a bit more detailed (maybe even a bit convoluted) but ymmv. So the above should answer your third question, but basically:įrom this you can see that your first question is kinda nonsensical since DX intends to focus on far more things than OpenGL. This naturally requires intricate understanding of what the original call would do on the original system (Windows), hence some things get developed only slowly if at all in wine (like DX11 support, or the supposed Pulse driver). It basically converts and resolves calls recursively so that at the end some other library will do something similar to what the original call would have done. Wine is a 'compatibility layer' for Windows stuff. Yes you can but that does not mean that Ubuntu supports your game. For that matter nothing really supports DirectX beyond Windows (and maybe ReactOS though I've never tested that). This means that Ubuntu does not support DirectX in any way. In simple terms DirectX is a collection of libraries (*.dlls mostly), that serve to allow a developer easy access to Windows's lower level graphics, network and audio systems (maybe others too, never developed much with dx).ĭirectX is basically something that allows a convenience layer so you can do things like 'load and apply texture' instead of having to read every byte of color value from your jpg/png/whatever and draw them between 3 or more points on the screen based on some 'geometry logic' because that would significantly harden the task of developing multimedia applications. This statement is so wrong on so many levels.

'We already know Ubuntu support DirectX by using wine and OpenGL natively.'

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