What's the best OS for Nex?

[Deathyak]

I love the game but my g5 was lagging down to around 5 frames/s on the min settings on level.

core2duo, 2.66 ghz,
3 gigs ddr3
Nvidia gforce 9400

around 30 frames/s for most maps with GL2 in OS X at 1600x1200 and med. effects

around 100-160 frames/s with GL2 in XP at 2024x[1562?] (which I just discovered is in fact, more pixels than my LCD has lol) and med effects. With rockets, I think it stays around 80.

So my question is this: what is the best for my comp here? Linux or XP? [OSX is here to stay, but not for this]

[Ed]

Linux definitely.

[morfar]

Linux. Some conspiracy theory says Linux is better because the gfx drivers lacks some features.
But that is totally false in my experience.

[FruitieX]

Linux

[C167]

linux, cause it's really easy to compile darkplaces on your own with some optimisation switches which might result in some extra fps
I use that on my core duo:

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-pipe -O3 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -msse3

But be careful, there are some flags which are harmfull, look into makefile.inc, it's noted there

[[-z-]]

Jumping on the Linux train here

[Lee_Stricklin]

Overall Linux handles Nexuiz better. The only time I've seen Windows handle Nexuiz better were when I used an ATI Power Color PoS AGP card and a standard PCI NVidia Geforce 6200. Every other card I tried, Nexuiz worked better on Linux.

[C.Brutail]

+1for Linux.

[Deathyak]

k any distro in particular?

Debian?
ubuntu?

Anything besides DSL?

[C167]

Well, i use Debian (sid) on my production and development machine (Laptop), but for new users, I'd recommend Kubuntu (cause I don't like Gnome)