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Sadly linux framebuffer is still inferior in comparison to Windows framebuffer I'm running Windows 7 with a 14 yo gfx card (ATI Radeon 9250 - DirectX 8.1) alon
by biscuitNotchips 8y ago
Sadly linux framebuffer is still inferior in comparison to Windows framebuffer
I'm running Windows 7 with a 14 yo gfx card (ATI Radeon 9250 - DirectX 8.1) along with Windows 2000 drivers in compatibility mode and if you exclude some minor tearing everything else is perfect.
Same configuration but this time in linux, on various distros, from the lightest to the heaviest and the results are the opposite.
heavy screen tearing and choppy scrolling everywhere, and the weird thing is that i see more Graphic Features enabled in the chrome://gpu/ in linux than i see in windows on this ancient card, yet the overall performance is inferior in linux.
- dingdingdang 8y agoMy experience is the exact same, I so want to be able to have a snappy low latency desktop experience in Linux and it is just not happening. Today I run a "lightweight" Ubuntu Mate workstation with an i7 + dedicated GPU and it's still worse latency wise than my Windows XP PC was more than 15 years ago. Not good. Really not good.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt even appears to have gotten worse with time. My only Linux system is a netbook with an AMD APU DX11 class, it used to work quite well, however after the AMD driver split performance was never as good and having back video hardware decoding required me to force enable it.
- ddalex 8y agoThis is not the experience I'm getting. I'm running XUbuntu Bionic with i3, and the experience is butter smooth; makes Windows feel laggy and MacOS slow as molasses on the other hand, there are no nice animations, transitions and 3D effects like shadowing; just pixels on the screen; however everything updates instantly.