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Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average::Computers, hardware, software and gaming in Spanish and English

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve got an RTX 2060 mobile that I’ve been linux-gaming on for a few years now, it’s been great. I was getting consistent blue screen crashes with windows, even after multiple reinstalls. Ubuntu had some minor issues out of the box, like I had to find a program to control screen brightness, but PopOS has been literally flawless.

I’ve been saying for years now that gaming on linux feels faster. Most games get better framerates than they did natively on windows, but I’ve never known if that was unique to my setup. Really neat to have more data!

[–] malchior 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair, that bios-managed RAID is still using a hardware controller. It's embedded in the motherboard.

Anyway, hardware RAID is discouraged in home/workstation environments as you don't have control over how the controller implements it. So if the board breaks, it's harder to retrieve your data.

Linux has support for real software RAID, for example using LVM or filesystems that have that feature. It's easier to setup than it may sound. Most distributions can enable that during installation of the OS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not really surprised.

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