Those people, who hate on Linux probably never used it or are just a bunch of incompetent handicaps who aren't able to switch from Windows to Linux for whatever reason :) I commiserate with those poor creatures.
The only reason the linux drivers for opengl and the sorts run faster is because valve pushed the developers at amd, nvidia, intel, etc to make them better so the source engine could run better on there. They may have made l4d run faster (315 fps on a test), but don't forget the sentence that followed right after:303 isnt 315 but its certainly much better than 270, and at the time the windows drivers weren't even supposed to be worked on- so perhaps if nvidia/amd/etc focused purely on windows with the same problems they encountered with the linux drivers, it's drivers would be up to par with linux's, too. The only reason I can think of that makes shaders run better on linux is because of the compilers are different, but those are built in with the drivers, so its not the fault of the OS which determines what runs faster- its the driver developers.Someone should run blockland on windows and linux and brown townyze the generated shader assembly to see how different it is.
Command prompt. Command prompt.
"wahh wahh i dont like why other people are using an os i hate for absolutely no reason wahh"seriously, arguing about reasons to use an operating system is just stupidthis is not the linux debate thread, you guys. seriously.
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