Re: Linux on the desktop viewed as from Joe Winuser

Thus quoth Alex Butcher on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:19:26PM +0000:
> 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.

Sorry, but I blame X, not some driver, not Linux. (see the Unix Haters Handbook)
Compare this to DOS where games manipulate the video hardware directly.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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