Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: meggermanLinux gamers can't afford to ditch Valve at this point…

I personally have all the rights to ditch Valve however I want. And Valve can not do anything to me. Because I don't even have Steam account and neither is planning to, ever. :D

Then it's obviously impossible for you to ditch Valve.

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Isn't a single one of the over one billion Chineese here to enlighten us a bit about what happens behind the Great Firewall?

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Quoting: GuestInvestigate more, see what is really going on. And realise you are not in control of your purchases if using Steam. Valve is.

Mysterious things not to be spoken of, it seems...?

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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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