Re: [pygame] pygame.HWSURFACE not portable?

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

I read a tutorial that said that HWSURFACE works okay on Windows, but it 
breaks a lot on linux. don't know if that's true.
it shouldn't matter because pygame'll default to a software surface.
Just make sure that you know you actually have a hardware surface if 
you're going to be doing hardware-surface-only tasks.
Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a note on the pygame.org site saying:
>
> "Don't specify flags unless you absolutely *must* (that is, don't
> specify HWSURFACE, depth=32 just because you think it's a good idea).
> This will reduce the portability of your game."
>
> Could anyone elaborate on this? Google doesn't know anything about
> "pygame.HWSURFACE portable", and nothing else about "pygame.HWSURFACE
> portability".
>
> Ethan
>
>