Your tutor might respect the fact that you are looking outside the box and towards solving issues of portability (a major topic within the game development industry).

Now that would be a sight to behold, my tutor scolded me for trying Lazarus instead of Delphi (I had a linux box so Delphi wasn't an option).

Heh I had a teacher scold me for using GCC + Makefiles + Vim in my C++ class because it was all I had available at the time due to a computer explosion. Apparently Visual Studio is the only way to write C/C++ now a days in school.

Your tutor might respect the fact that you are looking outside the box and towards solving issues of portability (a major topic within the game development industry).

Now that would be a sight to behold, my tutor scolded me for trying Lazarus instead of Delphi :D (I had a linux box so Delphi wasn't an option).

Heh I had a teacher scold me for using GCC + Makefiles + Vim in my C++ class because it was all I had available at the time due to a computer explosion. Apparently Visual Studio is the only way to write C/C++ now a days in school.

Not sure if that is just a bad school, or if it is a real trend.

Both undergrad and grad were mixed environments. At undergrad the department head maintained a VAX-11 that he used for the assembly course, labs included an O2 lab for graphics and another with NeXT boxes. Grad school had a mix of machines from supercomputers to standard windows and linux boxes.

I cannot see how any research school would not have a complement of *nix boxes in the CS department.