Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average

Windows has so much garbage overhead via telemetry, etc. Glad to see someone quantifying how detrimental it is.

Steam Deck and Proton have done wonders for Linux compatibility efforts.

However looking at NEW releases I actually want to play, many launch barely working on windows let a lone via proton / emulation. My back catalog has great support but we need more titles launching with official support.

The worst thing has to be all of the "launchers / game stores" JUST GIVE US GAMES!

Limited to amd though, yea? Nvidia still holding back their drivers?

Well, that's what happens when you don't have crazy spyware services running in the background. Also Windows, just like any Microsoft product, is very inefficient and wastes lots of resources.

Man, I am really looking forward to fully ditching Windows.

My next gaming PC is gonna be Linux. There, I said it.

It must be very hard to exactly compare games between Windows and Linux because it's possible that emulation in Proton, WINE or the driver means some settings or extensions might not be enabled even if they appear to be. DirectX emulation is also bound to slow things down so a game probably has to be use OpenGL or Vulkan directly.

So while I can well believe that Linux can keep up and possibly exceed Windows, it needs a careful technical eye to ensure a true comparison is happening.

This is impressive and interesting, but what about hardware ray tracing support? Proton has been very impressive but I thought that RT on DX12 was basically non-existent on Linux.

GN came to a weaker conclusion when they were looking at one of the handhelds (I want to say the asus ROG?), although they just attributed that to the device rather than claim it was the OS.

But most of this reminds me of how Elden Ring was significantly more performant "on steam deck" at launch. And that was mostly because all shaders had to be precached which had implications on how From were streaming content. Which is likely why stuff like mortal kombat 1 apparently forces players to wait for shaders before they can play.

That’s great and all, but can I still pirate games on Linux? (Don’t judge me)

It's also like saying that bloating an OS with spyware and useles eyecandy it makes use hardware resources ineficiently. But of course that's not the case with Micro$oft.

I remember when I used to run games via Wine over 15 years ago and they performed better than on similar hardware running Windows.

Not only in games, I switched from Windows 10 to LXQT and I can finally open more than 3 programs at the same time without the pc hanging for 10 seconds every time I switched between programs

AMD only and not Nvidia? That’s what I was seeing based on a quick search. Unfortunately, I don’t have an AMD GPU.

I'll switch to Linux when I can play any game I choose to without any stuffing around, or when/if M$ start charging BS subscription.

why aren't game producers releasing versions of the game compiled for debian ubuntu and other lInux distros?

Not really surprised.

Doesn't really surprise me, I've had a Steam deck since launch and the performance on Windows titles has always been impressive, even considering its relatively low-end hardware.

The only thing preventing me from dual-booting my desktop is lack of software RAID support in most distributions (by this I mean RAID configured in the BIOS but not using a dedicated hardware controller).

Okay, so say I did switch to Linux. I would have to transfer all of my files that I have saved from Windows and try to make them compatible with being on Linux. It's also very excruciating and mentally painful that I would just have to start from scratch. I like all the various things I have saved on my PC i would not want to lose them

I've not run windows for years, but I straight up refuse to believe there's a seventeen percent performance uplift. Magic does not exist. Linux must be skipping some rendering.

But what about Fortnite and Valorant?

Nice for the 3 games that run on linux

Not to sound sarcastic, but only 17% faster than the operating system known for being an appallingly bloated stack of adware garbage that most people cant get away from because of compatibility? Thats surprisingly low, honestly.

Considering for most games it’s 100% slower, I’m not cheering just yet.

The issue is support not performance.