Quoting: ShmerlGood for you. I had constant tearing, and the worst in Unity games (my previous card was GTX 680). That's completely gone since I switched to AMD / Mesa.

I started Linux gaming when I had a GTX 660 and now I'm using a 780. The only games where I remember heavy screen tearing were the Shadowrun games. I had to fiddle with driver settings there. All Unity games were fine I think.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeI surely must be doing something wrong that I haven't met any of this in many years...

Nvidia addresses some of those with a crawling pace. They supposedly fixed tearing by making a special double / triple buffering option, but it's off by default. They are working now on new API to propose for Wayland compositors (years late). If it will work out - great, but I don't expect it any time soon.

I can only repeat myself: I'm not experiencing what you're talking about. And I'm not talking about some obscure future, but present and past years. I don't have tearing in Unity games (and I didn't change driver buffering optiond), neither met the other things you mentioned. What am I doing wrong...?

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Quoting: ShmerlIt doesn't, a least not at all seamlessly. Constant screen tearing (especially in Unity games), constant breaking of the system and need to reinstall the driver on each kernel or xorg update, no framebuffer support, Optimus horror story, opaque bug reporting process and etc. and etc.

I surely must be doing something wrong that I haven't met any of this in many years...

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Quoting: tmtvlNvidia doesn't "just work", devs keep working around their terrible shoddiness because Nvidia users keep crying foul if stuff doesn't work properly for them.

Quoting: tmtvlNvidia users are like Apple fanboys who keep deluding themselves so as not to have to face the reality that they've got serious Stockholm Syndrome.

Do you think people will be convinced when addressed like this?

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It's not a bug, it's a feature!

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Nobody should mention this other website now...! ;)

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Quoting: Code ArtisanFor Windows, the numbers from steamspy are accurate (+7000 games this year !)

Ups. So I totally missed the interpretation of the Windows releases. Bad news.

Shall I say, for the provocation...?

Linux gaming is dying a slow death.

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Quoting: Code ArtisanAmount of games released on steam according to steamdb [External Link] and steamspy [External Link]

       Linux  Windows
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2017    ~372     7143
2016    ~681     5001
2015    ~664     2965

Filtering for games (and for Linux, of course), sorted by date, there's 47 pages by 25 games:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&tags=-1&category1=998&os=linux&page=47 [External Link]
That makes 1175 (+ some) Linux games in 2017.
(Of course, one might wonder if they have the same margin of error for other years. I'll take a look.)
It's about 44 pages for 2016 (up to ~91) and about 34 for 2015 (up to ~126).

So here's the new releases compared (if the Windows numbers are accurate, which I'd guess they are):

*edit* I needed to fix this:

       Linux  Windows
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2015    ~850    2965
2016    ~1100   5001
2017    ~1175   7143

So it seems the percentage of games released on Linux as well is on a strong decline? :(

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Quoting: cprnYou need a licensed local representative, clear proof of violation and money to pursue the case.

Guess what's lacking.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: EikeThat's not true, open source licences are enforced.

Please, don't be naive.

No problem, haven't been for decades.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThese may have a certain reach in the Americas and Europe, but besides that?
Some minor (or even major) business in Asia can do mostly whatever they want. Nothing there to keep them in check - or those who could do not really care.

You can still block two of the biggest world markets. What Cineese can do in China, we all can see from Windows usage and sells...

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