I think we should be careful touting linux as more preformant in games than windows because when people switch they wi find that isnt always the case. There are two situations where linux beats windows. CPU intensive games and on systems where the CPU is really bad and sometimes really bad dx12 games.
In every other case the preformance comes down to the gpu drivers which are undeniably better and more tuned on windows.
But this is not bad. I think its still very convincing to be able to say you can get away from windows and switch to linux barely losing any preformance and even in some cases gain it.
Is that something that can be tweaked on the Windows side? Because if you can’t mess with it on windows, one may argue that the comparison is valid because Linux allows you to tweak those settings
They are supposed to have the same settings, the Linux ones are just wrong and using more power than told It’s supposed to be capped to 17 but pulling over 20 vs 16 on windows. That’s a lot more lower resulting in higher fps but lower battery life.
Cyber dopamine himself says he’s not a benchmark guy as well.
I like him a lot, he’s really passionate and a positive breath of fresh air online, but the guy is surely stoned nearly 100% of the time. No way I’m taking his technical tests at face value.
60-80% better frames on Bazzite for space marine 2 was just too much to not be an error.
This was a genuine concern to me before my switch. I game a lot and this was a main thing keeping me back.
I eventually decided, well I’ll at least dual boot and can just switch to Windows if I want to play a game there.
But that kinda turned out to be a pain in the ass. Things like Bluetooth devices would need to be switched each time (I know there are ways around this, don’t @ me), and more.
So… I just stopped using Windows to avoid that annoyance. And it turns out I don’t miss the games I could only play on Windows that much, because I haven’t booted into Windows in months. I’m fact I’m not really sure why I still have the partition.
Pretty hilarious if after years of being the scourge of Linux and FOSS advocates, complaining how they could never leave Windows because they need it to play, gamers become our greatest allies, switching in droves to get more out of their hardware and games.
Really, this isn’t entirely new, I remember some games were known to run better on Wine than Windows years ago already (Soldier of Fortune comes to mind).
Teams actually works just fine. I’m my case installed from the AUR using the electron already present anyways. Zero issues. More specifically zero additional issues compared to Windows.
I’ve been thinking of switching my framework 13 laptop over to bazzite as a toe dip into the Linux world (other than steam deck) if it’s not too bad I might try dual booting my big desktop gaming PC
Honestly, I like Bazzite because it’s very controller and gaming friendly and you won’t be disappointed with it. That said, for a daily driver workstation computer you might want to try Fedora Kinoite which is very similar but focused towards desktop use.
Also it doesn’t hurt to try both as I said they’re very similar! Would love to hear a follow up on your experience.
One caveat. If you have racing wheels or HOTAS you should check if Bazzite supports them. I ran into that issue with my Thrustmaster T300 where the right kernel module isn’t packaged with Bazzite and adding the module to Bazzite… Well, let’s just say it’s easier to reinstall a different OS than it is to add a custom kernel module to Bazzite.
I know. I found that issue when I was looking into how to get my T300 to work and it’s because of that issue that I’m raising the awareness because that issue has been open for over a year and the last maintainer activity there was months ago.
I get that they’re doing it out of their free time and they probably have more important things to do so I’m not faulting them for not being faster with it, but from the end user perspective you’re just going to fiddle your thumbs until something gets done because doing it yourself has the immutable OS getting in the way and it also defeats the purpose of having an immutable OS.
Meanwhile getting the wheel to work on Nobara went, relatively speaking, so smoothly I don’t even remember what I did to get it working.
Compared to Windows. To be clear I’m just basing that on vibes, and I haven’t done any 1:1 testing, but it’s absolutely not any worse than Windows with everything I’ve tried. But also, even if it was slightly worse, the benefit of almost never needing a mouse/keyboard still would make it worth it.
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