(05-14-2014, 10:23 PM)gameaddict20 Wrote: Would using the nvidia driver mean using Direct3D because you can still install a nvidia driver on linux yet you can only use OpenGL.
On Windows, you'll be able to use D3D or OpenGL. On Linux, you'll only be able to use OpenGL. Afaik, D3D is the only major difference between Windows and Linux, everything else should be more or less equal. OpenGL is, in many cases, faster than D3D, so whichever OS you use should largely depend on how comfortable you are with it.