Linux has <i>all</i> the reasons to be the fastest gaming platform: something slow in the kernel slowing your game down? Submit a patch.<p>Yet it isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s absurd. The OSS framework has worked so well for almost every other facet, it&#x27;s crazy that it hasn&#x27;t worked for the kernel for games. <i>Especially</i> game developers: those are the guys you want when performance really matters. Gaming (and very slightly Visual Studio) is the reason I use Windows at home, if Linux became more competent at that I&#x27;d switch to it in a heartbeat.