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AMD Still Struggling With Linux Gaming
An anonymous reader writes: AMD's Linux gaming performance has been embarrassingly bad, and it doesn't look like there's any quick remedy. Virtual Programming just released Dirt: Showdown for Linux, and it's the latest example of AMD's Linux driver issues: AMD's GPU results are still far behind NVIDIA's, with even the Radeon R9 Fury running slower than NVIDIA's aging GTX 680 and GTX 760. If a racing game doesn't interest you, Feral Interactive confirmed they are releasing Company of Heroes 2 for Linux next week, but only NVIDIA and Intel graphics are supported.
Since you used the word "suffer" you have obviously never interacted with a decent gaming machine that has windows installed on it. If your only windows experience is on Grandma's Compaq from 2001, I can see why you'd use a drastic descriptor like "suffer". For me, trying to install linux and get the hardware talking caused me more "suffering" than just turning on my windows computer and waiting for 10 seconds, opening steam, and then never seeing windows interface for the next several hours. Hell, you can even set Windows to boot directly into Steam Big Picture mode, all but voiding the need for a steamOS/linux gaming niche. I suppose for people who always want to be tinkering with something, the type that loves to whine about something being broken and how they're working on a fix for it, I am sure linux is a god send. But for people who don't want to rebuild their OS just to get a display to initialize, there is Windows. Here is a motorcycle analogy for you: My father loved motorcycles but would never buy a Harley Davidson, because his riding buddies were always complaining about parts needing replaced or oil leaks/what have you. Meanwhile he hops on his yamaha from 1986 and flies down the road without having to worry about replacing the rod seals if he revved past a certain RPM.