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I agree - although my gfx chip vendor (VIA) are actually quite friendly to linux users, it does take alot of hassle with some cards to make them work on linux. i've *kinda* played stuff on cedega, but you really need quite a fast box.

My friends sister doesn't want to switch to Linux, because she doesn't want to learn using Gaim, cuz she already learnt Yahoo Messenger (she's 13). SHEESH !
I was playing a lot of games, but now I don't. Don't know why, maybe the good games don't run smoothly on my GeForce FX 5500 256 mb? I ran PoP3 and it was like a dream, really nice graphics... than ran Hitman 4... it was like a nightmare, took everything to minimum (so it looked like a 10 year old game...), and got 2-3 FPS, even after I applied the latest patch, upgraded to the latest video card drivers... Don't know what happened to games, but they are worse than they were, why can you run an older game, with fancier graphics better than a new game, with very slugish graphics? Are the programmers these days to lasy to write a good code? It seems so.
I ran native Quake 3 Arena on my Linux box (native Linux binary, not wine or cedega), and it ran better than on Windows.
The big game companies could sit down and create a new and opensource video and effects layer similar to DirectX for Linux (maybe VisualX... ), and they could port games to Linux. And when you'd read the requirements for a game, you would see that the Linux version runs on much smaller resources... They could than make more money, because more costumers will come even with older PC's. This would be a blow to M$, and an elnightment to everyone else, even companies.

it's not really in their interests to make linux-support, considering they are out to make money, and not many gamers use 'nix

There is SDL and OpenGL ,these two are good alternatives to directX.