It's just a fact of life that the vast majority of companies develop
primarily for Windows, and a few of them *might* port their product
to Linux as a side project, if there's enough demand. Since the main
line of development happens in and for Windows, the thing will obviously
always work best and most efficiently there; if there even is a Linux
port, it often tends to be an "as long as it works..." version, without
much care about efficiency. Most companies don't even bother with Linux,
so if the thing is important there, it's up to third-party developers
to create it (sometimes requiring reverse-engineering, like in the case
of hardware drivers and proprietary file formats.)

In the past Flash on Linux was notoriously inefficient. It was the
prime example of the Linux version being just a poorly-supported side
project, with Windows being the main target. There's even an XKCD strip
parodying the situation: http://xkcd.com/619/

This has become much better in later years. No Flash, eg. the YouTube
player, works just fine even when fullscreen.

Much to my surprise, however, that does *not* seem to be the case on
Windows, at least not on my machine. The YouTube player seems to have
hard time playing videos smoothly. The larger the window, the laggier
the video becomes. It's not *horribly* laggy, and the videos are watchable,
but you can see that the playback is not completely smooth...

It's strange.

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                                                          - Warp

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