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forrestthewoods on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year

Video drivers in OS X are dreadful and games run substantially faster in Windows on the same hardware. I would assume "linux" will be even worse.

pimeys on June 5, 2012 [–]

Actually it's better in Linux than OS X. My Macbook with Ubuntu runs OpenGL games 10-20 fps faster compared to OS X.

The thing is, somebody updates the GPU drivers on Linux, with OS X most of the time you're tied to the drivers that came with your OS installation.

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