I think Windows games will be slower on Linux?
Don’t feed the troll.
This user has a history of bad faith arguments. Don’t take the bait, no matter how delicious it looks.
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Why would I? They haven’t broken any rules, and we haven’t had a good troll post since Madthumbs left.
How did you know my account 's history?
By looking.
love it.
thats some good ol’ trolling like 20 years ago.
Actually I had Windows games running smoother on Linux. Windows has become so extremely bloated, and the translation layer has become more optimized.
Maybe it became faster because you installed a lightweight distro like Arch? What about on Fedora?
CPU limited games tend to be faster on Linux even with proton/ wine.
I’ve not tested any GPU limited games.
When you but an nvme bcache on your spinning rust (something Windows can’t do) and add fast LZO block compression (something Windows sucks at), games legitimately load much faster. You also get about 30% more games on the drive.
Then the system boots and about 1GB RAM is used by the OS and desktop. The rest is free for your game.
When Linux idles, it really idles. No background garbage. No periodic network activity. No antivirus scans. Pure computing silence.
Fire up a game, and all the hardware becomes yours. The WINE implementation has been optomised to do Windows things faster than Windows can.
At this point, the graphics drivers don’t even need to be as good to run faster.
It’s not even limited to old or crappy games. Helldivers 2 and Arc Raiders run flawlessly.
You have a point but I have to test it first to the PCs available in my local stores. Hopefully what you’re saying are all true.
Check out the steam hardware survey when filtered for Linux.
It’s only true when you buy AMD.
Nope, works really well for me. From all the games i tried pretty much only anti-cheat games and quest 2 vr stuff gave me troubles, but it has been years since i tried vr and i’ve heard it has improved a lot. Recently the hdmi 2.1 situation with amd bit me in the ass when i bought a tv as a gaming display, but i ended up buying an adapter and accepting that atleast for the time being, vrr isn’t gonna work, cause i tried going back to windows instead but at this point it just feels like torture to use now that i’m used to linux. I’d rather lose vrr if it means i get to be free of windows. I also decided to just give up on any game that uses anti-cheat, cause i found myself not really enjoying them anymore anyway.
I will note that in my limited testing, I’ve generally found my VR gaming experience to be lacking compared to my Win10 install/dual boot (which is the whole reason I keep the damn thing around). But that’s been genuinely my only performance hit daily driving Linux for the past 4-6 months
The performance is still notably worse than native Windows, but are you familiar with WiVRn/Monado? You can read more on it here, Discord server linked there has a lot of helpful people when it comes to VR on Linux.
With things like Heroic Launcher, Proton support on Steam, easy Linux export on Godot… the idea that you can’t play games on Linux is the real “meme”.
linux sucks. it bloats everyone arse with it’s with cockpilots. Even if you could load up a game in it, it’d insert its own joystick right into your face without asking.
The people constantly talking about gaming on Linux are the meme.
In actual reality you just play your games without yapping about invented problems or imaginary benefits.
There are legitimate problems. I had the most issues with Nvidia drivers, just go with AMD on linux
