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While this might be true (neither saying it is or isn't) it is interesting that a lot of gamers will go to extreme lengths, both time and money-wise, for a few

by Dah00n 5y ago

While this might be true (neither saying it is or isn't) it is interesting that a lot of gamers will go to extreme lengths, both time and money-wise, for a few extra FPS but still most don't use the energy to switch to Linux. I wonder why.

marcodiego 5y ago
We all know why: gamers don't use linux because some of their games don't run on linux or run with limitations. If more publishers were willing to, this could change.
- Yuioup 5y ago
  For me the dealbreaker is that games run consistently at 10%-20% lower FPS on Linux than on Windows. Not a disaster but it bothers me. Native Linux games do run fast and sometimes faster but more and more publishers are abandoning native Linux and are taking the Proton route. That way they can get games to run on Linux and ignore all the support questions. "Sorry we dont't support Proton but we hear it runs well!".
  - Dah00n 5y ago
    But some big games that a lot of geeks use a lot of time tweaking do run better in Linux. Many of these gamers only play the one game for most of their time. If they can use X hours in Windows to gain Y FPS but can gain more FPS by using >X time in Linux then why don't they? My guess is most simply don't know. Many games do run with lower FPS but it isn't really set in stone. I have used WINE with good FPS gains before. Of course that was back when I had the time and not the money to throw at it.
tapoxi 5y ago
AMD/Nvidia gaming-oriented drivers target Windows and that's where you see the biggest framerate improvement - few games are CPU bound.
FuckButtons 5y ago
Because people play games to relax, Linux, for all its benefits is at times unbelievably frustrating to debug, for most, that isn’t a good use of their limited free time.
- Dah00n 5y ago
  My comment wasn't clear on my point which were that some gamers use a lot of time and money to gain X amount of FPS in a game but they don't use Linux even when it might gain them at least as much. Maybe because they simply don't know?
1_player 5y ago
This stereotypical gamers you talk about are also very conservatives, and upgrades only if there is an actual benefit in doing so, for the sole reason of keeping the FPS as high as possible, which is at incredible odds with the ever changing Linux graphical ecosystem, where nothing is stable but in constant flux. Yesterday X11, today Wayland, tomorrow what? Yesterday ALSA, today Pulseaudio, tomorrow what? Yesterday GTK2, today QT, tomorrow what?

by Dah00n 5y ago

marcodiego 5y ago

We all know why: gamers don't use linux because some of their games don't run on linux or run with limitations. If more publishers were willing to, this could change.

Yuioup 5y ago
For me the dealbreaker is that games run consistently at 10%-20% lower FPS on Linux than on Windows. Not a disaster but it bothers me. Native Linux games do run fast and sometimes faster but more and more publishers are abandoning native Linux and are taking the Proton route. That way they can get games to run on Linux and ignore all the support questions. "Sorry we dont't support Proton but we hear it runs well!".
- Dah00n 5y ago
  But some big games that a lot of geeks use a lot of time tweaking do run better in Linux. Many of these gamers only play the one game for most of their time. If they can use X hours in Windows to gain Y FPS but can gain more FPS by using >X time in Linux then why don't they? My guess is most simply don't know. Many games do run with lower FPS but it isn't really set in stone. I have used WINE with good FPS gains before. Of course that was back when I had the time and not the money to throw at it.

tapoxi 5y ago

AMD/Nvidia gaming-oriented drivers target Windows and that's where you see the biggest framerate improvement - few games are CPU bound.

FuckButtons 5y ago

Because people play games to relax, Linux, for all its benefits is at times unbelievably frustrating to debug, for most, that isn’t a good use of their limited free time.

Dah00n 5y ago
My comment wasn't clear on my point which were that some gamers use a lot of time and money to gain X amount of FPS in a game but they don't use Linux even when it might gain them at least as much. Maybe because they simply don't know?

1_player 5y ago

This stereotypical gamers you talk about are also very conservatives, and upgrades only if there is an actual benefit in doing so, for the sole reason of keeping the FPS as high as possible, which is at incredible odds with the ever changing Linux graphical ecosystem, where nothing is stable but in constant flux. Yesterday X11, today Wayland, tomorrow what? Yesterday ALSA, today Pulseaudio, tomorrow what? Yesterday GTK2, today QT, tomorrow what?