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I'm hoping someone with more knowledge about Direct3D/DirectX could clarify some things for me. Since we're seeing a lot of progress on .NET running on OSX and Linux, does this mean that at some point you'll be able to run Windows games on both OSX and Linux? If not, what are the major hurdles there?

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I don't think there are a huge number of Steam games running on .NET, but the number might be increasing due to the rise of Unity.

Many, many games are written in C++ and require reasonable porting efforts to get to Linux support. Someone like Ryan C Gordon (icculus) is much better qualified to comment on that, though.

I doubt Microsoft would ever port DirectX to Linux, but then again I doubted they'd do that with .NET, and look where we are.

The DirectX->Wine code works pretty well, but it's always going to be behind the state of the art.

There is already a native Direct3D 9 implementation on Linux, called Gallium Nine. It works with any driver exposing the Gallium interface, such as the open source radeon driver.

Direct3D and DirectX have nothing to do with .Net. The port of the CLR will only allow to run .Net(core) applications on OSX or Linux . And even there DirectX seems to be a blocking factor e.g. XAML/WPF which uses DirectX for drawing won't be ported/opensourced ,IMO for this very reason.

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