Given the direction microsoft is taking (not that I've ever liked microsoft, understand, but I was willing to put up with them.) that does seem something of a sin. The only problem being, no one has yet managed to build a decent game specifically for linux. If I could get Half-life DoD ported to Linux, I'd probably go linux full time...
Programming graphics with c/c++ if you are using windows involve the use of "DirectX" or "OpenGl" which both are graphics librairies.With them you can create "2D" or even "3D graphics" with all sort of colors and shapes.
Also,take a look at this site it might be a good way too start:
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