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

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

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

    The issue is support not performance.

    • shiroininja@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Every game I’ve bought this year has ran perfectly in Linux. And I don’t check the Linux status before I buy them. Yolo has paid off

      • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Same here, the only games that don’t work are the ones that’s ship with anti cheats the behave like root kits (a really nasty type of malware).

      • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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        1 year ago

        In my experience, most games either don’t work at all (very rare), or work 99% as well as on Windows. For instance, I’m playing Hitman WoA right now, and opening the Steam overlay makes the game run in slow motion until I restart it, and it goes in the single-digit FPS if my laptop is charging. Very rarely does a game run better on Linux than Windows. Alt- tabbing in particular is broken in a lot of games, some of them outright crashing.

      • Sanguine@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Same. I think 80% of my pre existing library already worked and then every game ive bought since the switch runs perfect. I used to check protondb first, now I just yolo and add my report later.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Uuuh, the compatibility percentage is way past 50%, can’t use the word “most” anymore.

      I can count the number of games I had to give up from my several hundred game library when I switched, on one hand.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I don’t care much for Windows bloat, but if 100% of games run on Windows and even 99% of games run on Linux, I’m sticking with Windows for gaming. It’s just that simple. If that ever reverses, then I’ll switch to Linux for gaming.

      • erwan@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I just don’t buy games that don’t run on Linux.

        There are already too many games I want to play for the time I have so the very few games that don’t run on Linux are not worth my time.