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On another note, the dev's that have ported their games to use Mantle so far only put the lie to the unprofitable, etc, etc, etc... excuses that I hear a lot about why porting to linux is costly, time-consuming, etc, etc, etc.... hmmm... but porting to an unproven api is supposed to make sense?? How so?

For AMD, Mantle is a nice way of side stepping current D3D and OpenGL driver issues, and freeing up some CPU overhead at the same time. It's an ideal route for them, rather than to invest more time and effort into hardware and software R&D.

Sadly for Linux, it's not really a mainstream gaming OS yet, and OpenGL (although popular... think Mac OS, iOS, Android, BSD etc) is still a bit of a red headed stepchild in regards to PC gaming, which usually is Windows/DirectX, so if you want to sell PC games you support that platform first.

Windows/Mantle is probably the next logical step down from that to many devs :(