The issue with Linux etc was heavily influenced by the fact that Blender uses OpenGL even for drawing the UI. While MS was trying to fight OpenGL with DirectX, OpenGL was infact created by SGI and became the 3D API of choice on Linux. Same for Mac OS.

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