As someone who does most of his work in Linux, I would love to also be able to game in Linux. I see way too many problems for this to be solved anytime soon. He

As someone who does most of his work in Linux, I would love to also be able to game in Linux. I see way too many problems for this to be solved anytime soon. Here are a few of the problems I regularly encounter when gaming in Linux. 1) X11 Fullscreen support - Current support is terrible. Basic games like Tux Racer have taken down my system. Maybe wayland or Mir will fix this. 2) Current Compiz / 3D compositing window manager kill 3D performance - The performance hit when running under any of the 3D composting mangers is unacceptable. Maybe wayland or Mir will fix this. 3) Video driver situation is abysmal. Nvidia and AMD open source drivers run at a fraction of speed of the proprietary counterparts and are riddled with bugs. Proprietary drivers only work for latest generation cards. Intel has decent open source drivers, but no true gamer would consider using integrated graphics. 4) Linux Sound subsystem is a disaster. Sure it's fine for listening to music or watching videos, but the latency and CPU usage is unacceptable to real gamers. MS learned their lesson with Vista/Win7 and now have proper hardware acceleration for sound cards in Win8 like they did in WinXP. Linux had their chance to fix this situation with OSSv4 but instead went with the inferior ALSA. I would love to see Ubuntu and Value clean this mess up, but I'm not sure they have the resources to pull it off. If Sony had chosen Linux instead of BSD, I could see this happening. But the way things are going with Mir in terms of performance and industry support, I don't see it happening.