In the Endless Sky case, I think it has the chance of performing better or exactly the same as under Linux.
-Since Endless Sky is using SDL2, I have no clue why it wouldn’t use the GPU for the drawing (eg. uploading one ship image, then let the GPU rotate it. But it seems to me, when looking at the CPU/GPU usage, the CPU gets all the work.
When there isn’t anything to compare (not going to launch a linux install to check it there) it’s not much use
Regarding Endless Sky, should pick it up again soon, got it packaged but it crashes for not finding resources, so something is of for the paths I think.
I will make sure this is dropped by next week or tomorrow as this seem very easy to get working on haiku and Ubuntu if you want I could try it out with a different Linux distribution or 32 bit haiku
Wait for @Begasus to finish working on it - you could of course make yourself a pilot file under Linux in the mean time and see how many ships you can get if you wish to avoid cheating.
-If, on the other hand, you want to skip ahead, you can create yourself a pilot, duplicate and open up ~/.local/share/endless-sky/saves/
then add a few zeros to the credits (I recommend you having billions of credits in this case).
-Save the file and open it in ES. You could go South-West to the Sol system and get yourself a bunch of Star Queens.
(Go in the shipyeard, hold down control+alt, then press the “Buy” button), type a name, for instance “SQ”, then confirm. You should now see as many ships as you can purchase for the amount of credits you have.
Different modifier combinations gives different purchase amounts. Unlike EV Nova, there’s no way to specify exactly the number of ships (or outfits) you wish to purchase.
If that means I’ll need to install XCB, GTK, SDL, Qt or some other bloat, just to display an animation in a window and get window events, then I’m leaving Haiku right now and never be returning.
Linux is more bloated than haiku though especially when I ran the test, haiku is so cleverly built. It is so built that everything even from its apps to it stores to its external Java stores allow it to always run perfectly regardless of what it’s running on that’s what separates haiku from Linux it’s better than using other oasis apps and more bloated hardware along with swapping and Zram just to keep up with windows while using Windows apps to even have its own apps
No,of course you don’t need to install any of that if you don’t want to use ported Qt or GTK applications.
The Haiku app_server serves a similar purpose as the X11 server on Unix-like systems,but technically it’s very different and everything needed to make use of it is already included with Haiku,no need for dozens of other libraries on top of it.