Linked by Steve Husted on Mon 13th Sep 2004 08:28 UTC
Linux gaming. Let's face it - it's terrible. Tux Racer? Please. Quake III, okay, I'll give you that. NeverWinter Nights? If you can get it to work. WINE? If you have enough hair left to pull out, WINE is a good choice.
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In my own experience, *Desktop* Linux (servers are a totally different issue), but *Desktop* Linux isn't any more stable than Windows XP. In fact, I think it's pathetically unstable. X hangs regularly. If I'm lucky I can ssh into my machine, kill X, and restart it. If I'm not lucky, I have to reset my computer. The UI feels like it has been doused with mollasis. Everything is laggy/slow. (This is the part where people blame KDE/Gnome bloat. Well - I switched to OpenBox for over a month. Window movement, resizing, redrawing is still painfully slow. Face it ... X is a joke. Linux needs a new windowing engine.)
(Oh - I'm running Gentoo by the way. Stage 1 install. And I've spent HOURS tweaking everything for performance. So there goes the argument about running an unoptimized distro.)
I use Windows, Slackware (desktop), and Mac pretty much every day. X is no where near as bad as you make it out to be. In fact ,the reason it's so bad is this: I've spent HOURS tweaking everything for performance.
Your the reason it's crashing so much. I've never had the problems you claim with X.org. Granted, I go with something stable and that is setup for performance: Slackware.
Using all three desktops everday, I feel qualified when I say that each has it's problems, and each are pretty much the same in speed. Heck, my person opinion is that the Mac is the most sluggish/heaviest, Windows is the flakiest, and that X is the most painful to configure.
The thing is: Your the reason your Gentoo machine runs slowly. I can easily get Windows and Mac to run slowly as well, Gentoo just makes it easier. I mean, seriously, anyone who blindly equates Gentoo with performance has some issues. Yeah, Gentoo can be fast, but only if you know what you are doing. You clearly don't.