A comparison-Part-4 (Gaming(14))

This is a part of series of articles comparing different widows and linux platforms
The previous post was :Office work

Part 4:

Gaming(14):
What do i say about Gaming. The basic things are;
1) Available games.
2)Hardware Platforms or OEMs (Other Equipment
Manufacturers)support.



Windows XP(12) and Vista(11):
The 2 have been club together cause its similar.
Gaming in PC industry symbolizes windows. All games are made for windows. Almost all kind of cards are supported. And OEMs make sure they have a driver ready for windows even before they release the hardwares.

The Difference between the 2 being ,
vista SP1 still lacks the performance of XP,although the difference is very less.

But:
There is still a room for improvement.
XP is still the better of the 2 atleast for gaming.
And from what i know , vista is unnecessarily bloated and eats on CPU resources.



Ubuntu 8.04(6) and Opensuse 11(6):
Again both the Linux distribution are similar.
And almost all games available on Linux are supported by both.
There are many free games available on both systems and for a causual gamer its more than enough.
Unlike windows Linux games are ususally free(as in beer).
With Cedega and Winefx Windows games can be ported to linux

But:
The graphics card and OEMs native support is less.
Apart from FPS(First Person Shooter)(thanks to open sourced Quake 3 engine) hardly any native games has good graphics.
Although many Windows games are ported,but are buggy at time and shows performance loss in many cases.
Basically the situation is not good and is less likely in the foreseeable future.