GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance

An anonymous reader writes "According to recent benchmarks by Phoronix, using the GNOME Shell will cause a large performance hit when running OpenGL games on Linux. Using Unity and GNOME Shell are also hitting various bugs in the open-source drivers."

Comments

Re:Not seeing the downside to this

[bky1701]

Oh, I've got to remember that one. "Oh, sorry I crashed your car, but hey- you should thank me for proving it couldn't stop that fast! Hopefully, you'll buy a better one next time."

You do realize this is why people don't take open source seriously, right?

Re:You can actually play games on linux?

[atomicbutterfly]

Yes you could do that if you're a masochist who wants to suffer an inferior, possibly unusable gaming experience. Meanwhile people who want to use their hardware to its potential rather than in some gimped, buggy form will take any driver that's going whether it is open or closed.

I wish more GNUtards understood this. People have standards - they don't want to have to "live" with an inferior experience when compromising yields great benefits, particularly if they gain very little from sticking to the inferior option. It's just how the computing experience is at the moment.