[linux_user_83]

No they are not. People claim they have them. I simple don't believe them.

People usually have problems when they have bad hardware, gunked driver installs. As for the overhead of Windows. Linux and Windows benchmarks on games (from many many sites, even places like phoronix) show that framerates on games that have native versions of each are about the same.

[smoldesu]

Again, it sounds like you've come full circle here. You aren't making much of a case if your argument is "it works fine if you know what you're doing", because that is also the status quo on Linux. We could continue to argue about how we've both misconfigured our respective systems, but that's missing the forest for the trees. Your point is moot.

[linux_user_83]

I didn't say that though. I was specifically talking about poorly looked after Windows installs and many of the people who think they are tech savvy do the dumbest things (like turning off parts of th memory management the OS expects in Windows, not keeping things updated etc. etc) because they think they know what they are doing and they don't. It is pure dunning kruger.

So at no point does it make my point moot. Windows does not need any special configuration with the vast-vast-vast majority of games. Many things just work and that does include a lot of older games (btw compatibility with older software has actually improved under 10).

You mis-characterising what I said doesn't negate the fact that many of the things I mentioned are issues in my original comment are real problems that continue to exist (and have existed for many years) and are unlikely in my opinion to be ever be fixed. You and many other pretending they don't exist doesn't make them go away.

[dleslie]

Go pull out the game disks for any DX3 or DirectPlay games. I guarantee you're likely to have a bad time. The same follows for a great many games released on Steam that targeted WinXPSP2.