[bsder]

> OS X runs OpenGL 4.1 and is still available even if deprecated.

You are correct. I misspoke. I meant to say 4.Ancient since 4.1 is 10 years old now.

> Note that most of the newer OpenGL features are largely about sending stuff faster to the GPU, not enabling new GPU features

For shaders, I certainly find that not true. There are a lot of shader features that got added over 10 years.

And, I believe things even as important as Uniform Buffer Objects are later than 4.1.

OpenGL 4.1 just ... isn't good in this day and age.

> If OpenGL drivers on Linux are "laughably worse" (though in practice i haven't much of a difference) then the solution is to improve those drivers.

I totally disagree. There simply aren't enough people in the Linux ecosystem to maintain those drivers and Vulkan drivers. I'd rather those developers all work on the newer and better API.