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[ichi]

Cøi, on 06 August 2012 - 16:56, said:

hundreds of other benchmarks which say the opposite.

Some do, some don't.

It'd be certainly weird to switch just because of L4D2 (unless that's all you played), but if you found that the games you play worked on Linux with about the same performance and you didn't need anything that you couldn't do with Linux already, why shouldn't you at the very least consider switching? Not that you have to, but it's a perfectly reasonable option.

Cøi, on 06 August 2012 - 16:56, said:

Do you really feel that cool doing 10x more complex stuff to achieve the same?

YMMV, but some of the reasons why I use Linux are:

- It makes my work a whole lot easier.
-The extra options in window management (even simple stuff like alt+drag) that make the environment more comfortable.
- It looks better (not really an important feature, I know, but it's a nice plus).

So no 10x complexity over here (quite the opposite actually).
Again, YMMV.

[Solid Knight]

simplezz, on 06 August 2012 - 12:02, said:

Not if you buy from a GNU/Linux OEM. They ensure the hardware is compatible with the OS. It works the opposite way around as well. If hardware is designed to work in Linux, and you try and use Windows on it, there's no guarantee it will function properly.

Awesome. Throw away your gaming rig and buy a new one even though OEMs don't really sell gaming-rig Linux PCs.

Also the last bit about hardware designed for Linux not working well in Windows; that is so rare it's almost non-existent in the PC realm.