Not ever sure how that's possible because most Linux drivers are 3rd party crap. Sort of like running generic drivers on Windows but far far worse. I've tried multiple Linux distros on my machine with horrible results. Linux has horrible driver support and you lose so much performance. Add all that up with a minuscule list of games and it's worthless. Flash isn't even supported on Linux anymore and just getting flash to work is a headache let alone your video and sound card! It's so damn glitchy compared to to windows it will make your head spin! And then you try to install one program and your whole machine gets fvcked up! I run everything I want on Windows back from XP and it works flawlessly where I can't run 1/50th of that on Linux!
That is weird. I haven't had any of those issues when running Ubuntu. Flash is picked up easily through the Ubuntu apps, and drivers were all good to go for all my hardware including audio and video. The foot print was smaller, the performance was substantially better and it was much less buggy and glitchy than Windows. But keep in mind, I never once used it for gaming.
Way off! PS4 has one set of hardware with the correct drivers, linux has billions of different hardware configurations and the drivers were made by linux folk from reverse engineering windows drivers and you lose a ton of performance when doing that! Linux is a disaster regarding the GUI!What I don't understand is PlayStation 4 runs on Orbis BSD which is a fork of FreeBSD another Unix-like OS. So, I think what Valve is trying to do should be possible.
Linux distros definitely want proprietary drivers but manufactures aren't supporting them that much! Even when they do it can be shaky! For instance, I was unable to change the overscan settings on my tv and was stuck with big black bars! You can configure some settings with the command line interface but it was too complicated for even me and I've taken some administrative Linux classes! I couldn't install either sound card utility so I couldn't use dolby digital live or tweak my audio/mic settings how I wanted to! Couldn't even run Counter Strike: Global Offensive smoothly which I can run on Windows at over 100 fps! Windows is just the better OS, it supports everything, runs flawlessly, you get all the latest windows apps, you get all the games, makes a great workstation, can create windows domains, really the only reason to have a linux PC is for creating servers or hacking/security! I like Linux for those purposes but as a primary PC it is severely gimped unless you stay away from a lot of stuff!
Ya the performance you lose is off-putting. I really gave Linux a go but it didn't work for me. I really like the OS and I love android, but it's not even on the same playing field as Windows and that's putting it nicely!
