Got it installed runs like a dream so far. Installing Killing Floor since everyone else is so focused on the source games I figured I would branch out. The amount of games that already have some level of linux support is surprising anyone worried about to small of a game library on launch can worry no longer.

Huginn wrote on Nov 11^th, 2012 at 3:07pm:



X-Window (XDMCP, X-lib, Openlook, CDE, KDE and all the various things in between  )  not THAT bloated. 

The main problem is the way it's built considering that 30 years ago computers with :
- multiple graphic cards,
- multiple screens on a given graphic card,
- multiple displays on a given screen

Were... how to say it... not a viable option.
Even today, there's not that many people that have multiple graphic cards with each card connected to several screens... ( I won't go into the Display fuckery )

Oh and all that has to be Network carried over the loopback interface through a fucking protocol called XDMCP ( X Display Management Control Protocol ) that's just there to jam your network traffic.

I have no love for Microsoft and Windows... but at least they made a semi-decent GUI while X has always been on the retarded branch of the GUI tree.

Oh and to go back on the subject : I'm alergic to Steam.

Flav wrote on Nov 12^th, 2012 at 11:50am:


Due to KMS it thankfully no longer is as horrible as it once was. And true X was designed around use cases no one gives any fuck any more anyhow. I think I might have used the network feature of X like... once, in seven years of Linux Software Engineering.

I remember when everyone laughed at M$ for putting their graphical stuff in kernel space. And even back then they were right. It outperforms that pile of junk called X easily by a factor of two.

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Many games still perform better under Windows. The reason is simple: M$ spends a heap lot of money to "help" the developers optimize their games on Windows (and therefore also for XBOX). There are a few notable exceptions here though, and I do sincerely hope that improves with the future.