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What's really stopping us here? For quite some time it was graphics drivers support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
by erikb 9y ago
What's really stopping us here? For quite some time it was graphics drivers support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
Is this still the case? I hear from many people that at least on Ubuntu that's no problem anymore. Are the graphics cards still overheating? Any experience in that area?
And yes, Valve could've done things better, but it's not that bad, that you couldn't do anything with at. As said, at least on Ubuntu with Steam gaming should be fine. And if we got one thing from Steam it's that more and more games are deployed for Linux as well.
Really, why hasn't it lifted off now? Is it really that users are so stupid that they don't see a $0 offer is better than a $100 offer for an OS? Hard to believe.
- grenoire 9y agoNot really. That $100 offer comes with better performance, support, and GPU drivers; users do care enough about those.
- erikb 9y agoIs that still the case? Last I checked the graphics support was there. Exactly in this time frame since SteamOS announcement they pushed NVidia and friends to provide better Linux support as well.
- flukus 9y agoCan't speak for nvidia, but AMD has been improving rapidly since they released full open source drivers. Ubuntu 16.04 won't work well with newer AMD cards, but 17.04 works extremely well and there are further improvements coming in future. Anyone wanting to play games on linux should be buying AMD at this stage.
- sgift 9y agoYes, it's still the case. The Linux support is far better than it was a few years ago, but not even remotely comparable - NVidia (and I think AMD too, but I have a NVidia card) provide a new Windows driver with specific optimizations for almost every AA to AAA game. For example: The last Linux driver in the "short lived" branch came out at 09.05., the last Windows driver 29.06