Is linux a good os for gaming?

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Kratt010

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I'm going to use linux (ubuntu) as my operating system for my new computer I'm building and I know the problems with ati gpus and etc and the small amount of games that support linux but will it lag extra etc
 
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If you play windows games through Vine, the performance will be worse, of course. If you play native Linux games, they will run the same.

You can check available native Linux games on Steam, for example.
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Slobodan-888

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If you play windows games through Vine, the performance will be worse, of course. If you play native Linux games, they will run the same.

You can check available native Linux games on Steam, for example.
 
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many games actually run *faster* through WINE than on native windows. Compatibility with games in not guaranteed though...
Valve games like CS:S, Portal, L4D, TF2 run very very well on native Linux. Civ5 also runs very well.

 
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Have you ever examined a running Linux system to see how many processes are running in the background? I'm guessing not.
 
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Hey - I'm perfectly chilled fella. I just hate it when people make fanboi-type comments about Linux with no background. It's good enough not to need that sort of stupidity.

And just because Linux is good doesn't meant that Windows isn't too - especially when it comes to playing games.

If someone wants to list the processes that run in Windows and Linux, respectively, and start a technical discussion about the differences between the process and threading models in the two OSs (and the memory management is quite relevant here) I would be delighted to join in. But the word of self-styled "advanced Linux users" doesn't cut it with me.
 
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This guy, for example, claims that benchmarks don't show Linux as being faster than Windows on games (despite that difference in the "weight" of the background processes running). You can find whatever you want on the Internet.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/ubuntu-gaming-performance-said-rival-windows-8-1

Now if you want to discuss what is happening under the hood, and explain what you mean when you say that Windows processes are "heavier" than Linux ones, I'd be happy to join that discussion. (I'd also want to discuss the different approaches to threading, which is - in many ways - more important than the process question.)

But I'm not interested in what "some guy on the Internet" says, or what "advanced Linux users" say. I'm more interested in what you say and the facts that your opinions are based on.

Or not.

I'm just going outside (to chill out, lol) and may be some time.
 
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Like I give a <mod edit>

As I said, I am not a software guy and I am not interested in software at all, let alone in discussing it.

I originally said that Windows based games will have worse performance in Linux (because Vine only supports one CPU core, and so on). Skittle said that Windows games would run better on Linux. So, I remembered what the guy from youtube said (and he is an advanced Linux user, while I am a hardware guy who does not know much about software, so of course I believed, and still believe, him), and I have repeated it.

And that is the end of it.

<Moderator Warning: Let's watch our language in the forums>
 
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Wow, what games run better on Wine than natively? Also, do you typically need to have a bunch of parallel installs of different versions of WINE to play Windows games acceptably?
 
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