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GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance

Posted by Soulskill on from the frame-job dept.

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."

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  1. You can actually play games on linux? by aywang31 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I didn't know graphics intensive games existed on linux.