I am trying to learn OpenGL by means of the tutorials on this site. (Yes, I have read the introduction and yes, I know that the tutorials here are not to be considered the best source for learning OpenGL). Anyway, I was looking over the Game Tutorials and found that DirectX was at the core of them! Is there any way to do the things in those tutorials with OpenGL?

OpenGl is just graphix while DX is graphix, sound, input, etc. You don''t have to use DX at all but then you will need some other libraries than just OpenGl for the sound and everything else.

try sdl. www.libsdl.org