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I use linux on my laptop at work. It is running Red Hat. I have many issues and as always with Linux one of them is bad graphics drivers. Basically every time

I use linux on my laptop at work. It is running Red Hat. I have many issues and as always with Linux one of them is bad graphics drivers. Basically every time I've tried desktop Linux (which is many times) I have always, always struggled with graphics drivers. Even if I get it to work fine, they always suck compared with a Windows installation. Last year I ran desktop Linux and first I had Linux installed and ran CS:Go, I had some issues with frame rate and when I installed Windows on the machine I got about 10-20 more fps which made a huge difference under heavy load. I love the idea of desktop Linux but I've come to terms last year after about 8 years of trying that it will never be as polished, as good as Windows. At least for me as a gamer. I think a big part of the problem is that there is just too much choices and software out there. Either it's Gnome, Unity or KDE or 20 other window managers. Writing GUIs for Linux is hard compared to Windows/MacOS. Small issues in many appliations, errors that show up when you really try to replace programs with open source ones etc. I love open source and of course I understand why things are the way they are, it's incredible hard for a smaller open source project to compete with a company that has lots of resources to throw at the issues.

coldpie 10y ago
Just curious, what graphics hardware were you using? Intel? Nvidia? ATI? I've used Intel and Nvidia extensively and had very few, if any, issues. Intel's drivers are open source, integrated with Linux, and fantastic. Nvidia performance is indeed worse than on Windows, but not enough for me to care. ATI is a mess and has been for more than a decade. Don't use ATI if you want to use Linux.
- staticelf 10y ago
  Mainly nvidia, I have used their linux drivers but they just aren't as good in my opinion. Last time I tried was with a couple of years old graphics card. It works with nvidia, but as soon as you have multiple monitors or do heavy gaming the faults are there and it's obvious that they don't put in the same effort as in their windows drivers.

coldpie 10y ago

Just curious, what graphics hardware were you using? Intel? Nvidia? ATI? I've used Intel and Nvidia extensively and had very few, if any, issues. Intel's drivers are open source, integrated with Linux, and fantastic. Nvidia performance is indeed worse than on Windows, but not enough for me to care. ATI is a mess and has been for more than a decade. Don't use ATI if you want to use Linux.

staticelf 10y ago
Mainly nvidia, I have used their linux drivers but they just aren't as good in my opinion. Last time I tried was with a couple of years old graphics card. It works with nvidia, but as soon as you have multiple monitors or do heavy gaming the faults are there and it's obvious that they don't put in the same effort as in their windows drivers.