Valve - One factor in creating a good gaming experience is throughput. This post discusses some of what we’ve learned about the performance of our games running on Linux.
As any software developer can tell you, performance is a complicated issue. In the interests of simplicity, we’ll concern ourselves with the following high-end configuration.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
The blog post reads, “We’re introducing a new WhatsApp app for Windows that loads faster and is built with an interface similar to the app's mobile version.”
Since the middle of February, customers of AMD graphics cards have been reporting situations in which Windows installations were entirely bricked after installing new drivers.
Will Definitely check it out.
Once all my Steam games work on Linux I'll make the jump.
I've played a bit with Ubuntu in VM
I see a Tux Newell.
thats nice, but I'm not making the jump from windows, mainly because of the issues in terms of my wireless adapter drivers and video card drivers (though the video card is HP's fault).
I've also seen an noticeable improvement in preformance using windows 8(about 10-15%) so thats something to look at. Also I don't like dual booting so I'm probably just going to stick with windows seeing as how I need to use visual studio and office a lot and gaming isn't a top priority to me.
It also seems like Valve is on a race to beat windows 8 because the windows 8 marketplace is going to be a pretty big challenger to steam. And after using it I gotta say that it works well and valve probably knows that and I'm sure they don't want to be the next netscape.
linux uses openGL which is totally inferior to DirectX....