Fedora 20 Beta vs. Ubuntu 13.10 vs. Scientific Linux 6.4

[r1348]

The matter is more simplified to my understanding.

Ubuntu has been tackling the issues that would cause discomfort to the Valve Source Engine, and they've been tweaking the OS for gaming, which explains its superiority as a Gaming Platform.

Remember Valve used Ubuntu to port several game titles to Linux on Ubuntu, and they reported dozens of errors on both Ubuntu and the Linux Kernel for improvements, where patches were issued and bugs were fixed.

With that being said, I believe that explains the smoothness of its gamin experience, which most of the regular non-geeky users would like to have on their boxes.

You're either implying that Ubuntu did not push those fixes upstream, or you're plain wrong.

[Pisto]

I don't like this kind of articles, just run the benchmark script and post the results. You have the hardware and are probably experienced with benchmark much more than us. Proper conclusions, or hints on why there are indeed these "oddities" on the GPU benchmarking, would be appreciated. Otherwise the readers have to work them out on their own (see, find the disk scheduler), or in the worst case these are good just to start flamewars without actual facts.

[CoderniX]

You're either implying that Ubuntu did not push those fixes upstream, or you're plain wrong.

I beg to differ as I've been following Ubuntu's evolution since 2008, and been using it since then, except the few months ago, where I stopped using Linux as whole and replaced it with OSX waiting for Linux to get proper PRIME support, and for Ubuntu to either stick to X.org for sure or jump to a working stable MIR.

PRIME would've been working already, if some of the FOSS weren't too fussy about not allowing NVIDIA to use their Kernel Symbols for the DMA-BUF to make it work, and they explained that by wanting only GPLed code and only from contributors :/

I'd careless for what's been there, as I just want something that works for me owning 3 expensive PRIME laptops, which I used for work and feed the mouths depending on me to provide a meal for them, and I have no time for a philosophical debate, as if it's in my power, I'll just whatever custom Kernel NVIDIA would provide that uses their own custom Kernel Sybols. What a shame I had to acquire Macs.

Windows is a No for me and will remain the same. Mac is okay, though is expensive yet it provides the comfort of being on a *Nix familiar platform.

To be honest, I'm a pro-Ubuntu, as I've been around several distros from the old Slackware, Mandrake, Knoppix, RedHat, Zen, Xandros, Linspire, Gentoo, Arch, Mint, and others and never felt at ease like on Ubuntu, because I use it for work and not for studies or as a hobby.

I hate the guts out of Unity and I still do, and tried GnomeShell which made me even hate anything like that. KDE wasn't/isn't productive for me, and way slower. XFCE is fine but not that useful.

It happens that Unity is somehow showing it down my throat as it has a stable ecosystem, and it feels things are relevant to each other. And with all the hate pouring against Mir, I'd really wish to see Mir succeed, and I wish the good luck for Wayland, since it got big backers.

I hate the hell out of the CLA, just like I hate it for Digia's Qt, which is much loved by KDE developers, and it even makes me sick to see the double standards for Qt and for RedHat when they had it and it didn't receive all the hate like Canonical.

Mark can be a jerk, no doubt, but I'd say the same and be the same as he was if I was treated like he was by the whole community, while he has provided a real userbase for the Linux world, whether people recognize it or not. Ubuntu is Linux and will remain Linux and no one can exclude it from the Linux fold, just like no one can exclude OSX from the Unix fold, or Android from the Linux community.

I'm a realist, and I know when Mir gets stable, I'll be using Ubuntu one more time, because I'm not that crazy to invest in hardware that I won't use.

Oh, and I have no interest in running the NVIDIA or ATI open source drivers, that would have been the case when I was in university, not when I have to feed my dependents. Sorry, cannot be philosophical, unless Intel or so pays me to work on their open source stack. That's the bitter sweet reality for the fathers who have to feed their children.

Anyway, I wish everyone a good luck.

No wonder why most of the Software companies out there provide an Ubuntu package, be it Viber, Skype, Valve, LightWorks or you name it!

No time for proof-reading the whole thing, but you can get what I've just written.