Re: Linux on the desktop viewed as from Joe Winuser

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:

> Thus quoth Dexter Filmore on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:00:21AM +0100:
> > 
> > they'll attempt as soon as they figure they need to to watch the latest Doom3
> > trailer. I remeber fumbling with autoexec.bat and config.sys with 6 different
> > memory configurations just for the sake of framerate in Wing Commander. (by
> > the way: best way to promote Linux: port more games and make them perform
> > better.)
> 
> Linux is fast, but the X Window System makes graphical applications very
> slow.

Blame driver performance (which usually comes down to insufficient
programming information for the video chipsets), blame poor porting, but X
is most certainly not the problem. Otherwise, well-ported games running with
nVidia's drivers would not perform within a percentage-point or two of their
Windows equivalents on the same hardware.

Although X provides for network transparency, there are plenty of
short-circuits that it and applications can use for best performance if the
applications are running on the same host as the X server.

> Kind regards,
> Daniel von Asmuth

Best Regards,
Alex.
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