It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
Personally, I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own. I'm sure you could put together a machine with specific hardware that is known to work well with Linux, but if you just pick random parts off the shelf based on per
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday July 30, 2015 @11:35AM (#50214519)
If all you care about is gaming, get a gaming console.
Linux is (mostly) free, so nobody bothers to write good drivers for consumer oriented devices. Linux is too good for "regular people" so it is artificially made bad so greedy monopolists can stay in business.
Sure, there are volunteers who put a lot of work in the opensource drivers, but without cooperation from the GPU makers this process is a rather tedious one. And the GPU makers are keeping a tight lid on their proprietary tech, so as much as volunteers want to, they will never be able to match the performance of the proprietary drivers for OSes from wealthy monopolists.
Not unless volunteers also develop an open source GPU, but that's a huge undertaking, designing the chip, the die, the manufacturing process and years of experience it takes to master it...
If all you care about is gaming, get a gaming console.
From whom? Sony removes features after release, and in general as a company behaves pretty scuzzily. Microsoft's not any better (especially with its ad-laden consoles). Nintendo has abandoned the core gamer demographic that the Playstation and Xbox cater to, especially during the last couple of generations.
Linux is (mostly) free, so nobody bothers to write good drivers for consumer oriented devices. Linux is too good for "regular people" so it is artificially made bad so greedy monopolists can stay in business.
That's just goofy. Windows is all most people know, and it's dead simple for normal uses. Linux is better than it was 15 years ago, and it's a great system for a technically-oriented user, but hardware co
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Here's what I heard: (Score:2)
Linux+Nvidia is cheaper than Windows+anything.
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
Personally, I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own. I'm sure you could put together a machine with specific hardware that is known to work well with Linux, but if you just pick random parts off the shelf based on per
Re:Here's what I heard: (Score:0)
If all you care about is gaming, get a gaming console.
Linux is (mostly) free, so nobody bothers to write good drivers for consumer oriented devices. Linux is too good for "regular people" so it is artificially made bad so greedy monopolists can stay in business.
Sure, there are volunteers who put a lot of work in the opensource drivers, but without cooperation from the GPU makers this process is a rather tedious one. And the GPU makers are keeping a tight lid on their proprietary tech, so as much as volunteers want to, they will never be able to match the performance of the proprietary drivers for OSes from wealthy monopolists.
Not unless volunteers also develop an open source GPU, but that's a huge undertaking, designing the chip, the die, the manufacturing process and years of experience it takes to master it...
Re: (Score:0)
If all you care about is gaming, get a gaming console.
From whom? Sony removes features after release, and in general as a company behaves pretty scuzzily. Microsoft's not any better (especially with its ad-laden consoles). Nintendo has abandoned the core gamer demographic that the Playstation and Xbox cater to, especially during the last couple of generations.
Linux is (mostly) free, so nobody bothers to write good drivers for consumer oriented devices. Linux is too good for "regular people" so it is artificially made bad so greedy monopolists can stay in business.
That's just goofy. Windows is all most people know, and it's dead simple for normal uses. Linux is better than it was 15 years ago, and it's a great system for a technically-oriented user, but hardware co