The major issue I ran into was no hardware acceleration, so performance came from (software) blits of only the updated part of the screen and similar techniques.
But I found it very fun to program in an environment with integrated graphics and sound and fonts and video and input devices and a event loop with timer ticks.
A lot of linux folks are thinking x vs wayland, but I'll bet if we replaced everything with an integrated environment that had everything necessary to support a game, we would have much better linux user interfaces.
The major issue I ran into was no hardware acceleration, so performance came from (software) blits of only the updated part of the screen and similar techniques.
But I found it very fun to program in an environment with integrated graphics and sound and fonts and video and input devices and a event loop with timer ticks.
A lot of linux folks are thinking x vs wayland, but I'll bet if we replaced everything with an integrated environment that had everything necessary to support a game, we would have much better linux user interfaces.