Aside from the corporate world, if there's any other reason why I'm sticking to Windows OS, is that most of my best favorite games on PC runs on Windows, and neither I would sacrifice game performance thru the use of emulators just to run games in other OS.
If only all game developers have supported OpenGL, users would have a variety of OS to run games, but then it seems DirectX has dominated as the graphics API of choice for game development, it's because it forces developers to choose it, to support newer releases of Windows OS. DirectX 11 will only run under Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
This is the sad part, goodbye to DirectX 10 which would only run under Windows XP/ME edition. If you have newer games that only could run under DirectX 11, you are obliged to upgrade your Windows OS as well.
But wait, there are bunch of geeks developing a so called ReactOS (www.reactos.org), a substitute to Windows dominance, it's neither Linux or other emulated OS. It's a Windows OS built based on Windows XP and Windows 2003 architecture. It aims to support all Windows Applications that runs on previous version of Windows, including the support for DirectX of any version. Hopefully it will succeed if we users support it.
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