[Annelies]

Originally Posted by CrazyLinuxNerd Technically, GNU/Linux does not "suck" for gaming. GNU/Linux is not the issue here, it is the games them selves. Games are written/tested/released on the windows platform, as such they will work perfect for Windows.. (well, mostly, they usually have bugs still lol) - They are then being forced to run through "Wine" on GNU/Linux which adds additional load to the system, and obviously compatibility issues, as such may cause bad FPS and other issues. Games which are written and compiled natively for GNU/Linux usually run pretty much perfectly. Recently Nvidia released a driver update which has drastically increased the performance of Graphics on GNU/Linux. In most cases you can get games to run perfectly on GNU/Linux as well, if it's a Windows platform game you usually have to hack it around a little to get it to run smoothly, personally I hack things around a lot to make the run perfectly. I have games such as Assassin's Creed 1 through III running on highest graphic settings just fine. But then GNU/Linux is the ONLY operating system on my computer, as such no windows, as I refuse to agree to Microsoft's TOS and Licence Agreement's as such will not use their software :-). So when it comes to having to hack things around a little to make things work, I do not mind. I run CentOS 6.3, However it is far from stock, I run the latest graphics drivers from Nvidia, the latest kernel from kernel.org and a lot of other "tweaks" and "modifications" while leaving most of the applications as CentOS 6.3 stock or from EPEL repositories and have got a surprisingly stable system still :-) And I don't have that crud Gnome 3 or KDE :-P (Xfce, lightweight, allows me to play games easier, and get work done without it constantly being in my face and bogging the system down - I prefer a minimalistic desktop..) Anyhow's, as for native games, usually they can be run pretty easily and without any hacking around or issues. Just my 2c

Very interesting. I understand what you're saying. Personally, I do not believe I should have to hack a game that I paid for in order for it to work properly, though. I just want things to be easy. Install, click and play. I think for now I'll stay on Windows.