It seems that nobody came up with the rationale for the steam survey. It seems that linux os'es are on the rise. It is no wonder. As an OS Linux is just better. However it is still not a gaming OS. For gaming people still dual boot. For gaming graphic drivers still suck.
Linux is also present in iot devices... more and more devices are just linux devices, just as the atari new thing.

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I think Linux passed the line of being a nerd toy. Previously you had to be an IT pro to use Linux distro. Now you don't have to be. Mount disks in fstab? There's gui program. Use network share? Files program can handle it.
It was funny for me to observe my friend at work. He's a gentoo user from the old days. When we received a Linux laptop from a client he has been running most of the things from cli. He was very surprised to see that some tasks can be this straight forward using gui programs.
I also would like to remind you guys to give your pinguin love back. I have qritten yesterday a simple samba client in a gui form, available on the github. It is a very simple program, but maybe it will help somebody in need. From what I saw using Files gnome program you do not mount smb filesystem, but just access it. For me mounung samba share was a necessity so I wrote the program. Cheers.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: renegat0x0@shmerl

That's good, I like when developers make their own engines. But it sounds like they don't use Vulkan yet.

I disagree. I don't like when people are reinventing the wheel.

Having your own engine, you can do whatever you want, and design it however you want. Doing it yourself is a good price to pay, if you want to have full control over it.

@JudasIscariot
It is a funny thing when somebody mentions cost of a gaming engine. Engine developers do not eat dirt. It costs to develop an engine (and to add more features). If you write your own engine it will costs you also to develop your own engine, and during this process you may end up with a bad product if you do not know what you're doing.
You could even pay more for your own engine if you are not careful.
I heard that game engines do not have to pricey. I heard you have to pay for some engines when your game exceeds some earning level. I see nothing wrong in paying for an engine if the price is right.

@Shmerl
I understand when high-end games use their own engines (for example witcher 3). Triple A game requirements are high. If game engine was not optimized for the game, the performance would be poor. However there is no need for control for simple games, or games that use simple mechanics. Even though I have not played the witness I suspect there is nothing it that cannot be realized using an existing engine. I find no necessity for control here. That is why I find the witness author complaints completely missed.

Sorry for the long post and my bad English.

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@shmerl

That's good, I like when developers make their own engines. But it sounds like they don't use Vulkan yet.

I disagree. I don't like when people are reinventing the wheel. He could have used existing engine. He could have used engine that simply supports linux. That is the price of having your own engine. You have to do everyhing yourselve.

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I am wondering if the title/description is OK. If it is a fix for all nvidia cards, or if for some cards only. I found the solution several days ago and I must say that it not only fixes tearing but overall performance in Linux gaming. The stutter in Saints row the third was unbearable. For the past few months I have been using openbox with compton, but it is better to fix that in xorg. However if I plug/unplug monitors it may be cumbersome to rewrite xorg, or to be force to update the setting each and every time.

Still better than windows.

Yesterday I was backupping external drive storage, which took a while. Unfortunately for me windows decided to install updates and my process was blocked half-through. Thank you Microsoft.

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So I see the benchmarks were executed on ubuntu. I am not sure if it is a good approach. The games are released on steamos. I do not know if it is hardware or software issue, but I see a big difference when running on mate and on openbox with compton. The latter solution is much closer to steamos. I have nvidia card 950 and am running linux mint 18 mate.

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