Recent testing revealed that Arch Linux, Pop!_OS, and even Nobara Linux, which is maintained by a single developer, all outstripped Windows for the performance crown on Windows-native games. The testing was run at the high-end of quality settings, and Valve's Proton was used to run Windows games on Linux.
    •  SavvyWolf   ( @savvywolf@pawb.social ) English
      14•7 months ago

      Figure I should give context here. The Steam Deck isn’t available on Amazon. The link they give (which is covered in their affiliate nonsense, of course) is to one of those third party resellers.

      Morality of those resellers aside, probably not what the article should be linking to as where to buy one.

  •  cron   ( @cron@feddit.de ) 
    17•7 months ago

    While I love good news for Linux gaming, this article is IMO a litre too positive. In the last part, notebookcheck picks the games that Linux distros were best in and presents a biased picture.

    But the general message is positive: When games run under Linux, the performance is probably equal or better than with Windows. (And Windows has compatibility problems too).

  •  blindsight   ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 
    13•7 months ago

    I didn’t see anyone pointing out explicitly that this was not in native Linux games, but in Windows-native games running Proton.

    When I read the headline, I thought that of course Linux will outperform Windows on native apps. It’s more surprising that Linux outperforms while running the overhead of a compatibility layer.

          •  aplomBomb   ( @aplomBomb@midwest.social ) English
            9•7 months ago

            It’s more complicated than that, for instance i use software that processes telemetry data from my racing simulators that control my tactile transducers. there’s a million situations just like that if you do anything more than basic games on a basic screen.

            What about surround for triple monitors? There’s just so many little things that become a pain in the ass the moment you switch to Linux when it comes to gaming outside of the most basic, straight forward instances.

            •  appel   ( @appel@whiskers.bim.boats ) 
              5•7 months ago

              You are right, many oddly specific gaming things like this are not that well supported, but the strength of Linux and open source is that everyone has the power to change it. The software that people have already developed to interface with proprietary hardware is great, I have a Corsair mouse and thought I would never have support for macros on it on Linux, but someone has already developed software that does a way better job than corsairs official software. It can do all of the same operations and doesn’t hang or crash regularly. I’m sure a few of your issues have already been solved by someone. The brilliant thing is, Linux ultimately allows much more control over the software and hardware it is interfaced to. So something like the transducers you mention would probably be easier to do than it is on windows, but someone has to actually do it. Maybe the sim-racing community is just waiting for you to come along? ;)

              •  aplomBomb   ( @aplomBomb@midwest.social ) English
                1•7 months ago

                I’m not vendor locked, and it doesn’t suck, the team that makes that software are great guys doing awesome work and deserve the money they get

                idk what you mean by plug n play regarding the triples. i don’t know if you’ve ever had a triple setup, but it requires software to treat them as a single display and adjust for angles etc for a proper 48:9 fov