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On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:57:57 +0100, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote:

>I am an OSX user, the games situation thanks to steam is better than 
>Linux but worse than Windows. Of my 178 games in my Steam Library about 
>78 are available also for OSX. Not that I bother to much about this (see 
>below)
>
>As for frame rates etc... hard to compare most OSX user including me 
>only use their notebooks. The desktop machines are not affordable 
>anymore for the average user and the notebooks do not have the fastest 
>graphics cards models integrated.
>
>OSX machines are nice work horses, I love to do my daily programming job 
>on OSX, but gaming on those machines, forget it mostly (same goes for 
>the average windows notebook computer)
>Most of the times I play on my osx machines is by using inhome streaming 
>and have the pc host the game.

I think one of the main performance problems is drivers, which NVidia
pretty much updates for Windows on a per game basis.

I ran a MAME cabinet on Mandrake Linux for a while and at the time,
driver updates were nightmarish Root/Terminall affiars with cryptic
commands. I'm pretty familiar with DOS, and still struggled with it
even though I felt I had a grasp on the principle. I eventually
abandoned ship and went with a stripped down version of Windows XP on
the arcade cabinet.

Valve getting heavily involved now along with the newest builds of
Linux allowing software updates from the GUI (this is huge even though
I haven't tried it) are the first big things that have happened in a
long time. I believe the PS4 operating system is also Linux based,
though heavily customized with Sonys own Direct X type of environment.

Tim