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Originally Posted by Znurre
Linux is the perfect gaming platform, it just lacks the games, but even that is slowly changing.
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Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. The only perfect gaming platform is the human mind — especially in the case of role playing games, where the best ones still don't require a computer.
Although I have to say this about Linux as a gaming platform; It may be good for games, but not at the same time as it is good at being a desktop or a server.
The real advantage there of course, is that it is so easy with the one physical box to switch between the three.
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idTech games (Quake, later Doom games, stuff based off or modded on top of them) are so smooth because of the amount of effort put into making them elegant, and, well, fast. It has little to do with the API used (John Carmack has said as much as that the API matters nothing compared to the hardware).
Wine faster than native? This is generally an effect of things that have little to do with graphics, and normally more to do with I/O.
In the case of Minecraft and anything that runs on bizarre GL abstraction frameworks for Java, it surprises me they run at all. Minecraft could probably have been made much faster by programming it in Python, which is neither the epitome of speed.