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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
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The Steam Deck is an exception as it has a highly specialized OS with functionality and optimization limited to one thing: playing games.
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> Developed the proton translation layer (which you yourself made this post for), and released it open source so anyone can use it. I myself leverage Proton for Linux gaming on a daily basis (I do NOT run SteamOS) Proton stands on the shoulders of giants like [Wine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)) and [DXVK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXVK). What Valve did is still impressive but they didn't start from scratch.Definitely, and I'll never try and make the argument against that. However what they did was definitely a significant improvement on these pre-existing translation layers. Linux gaming can be clearly defined as pre-proton and post-proton because it was such a huge improvement to the experience (one-click installs, large number of support in games, gaming via proton counting as a Linux sale in publisher metrics, etc) And I'm speaking from personal experience, before proton I had a hard time getting pretty much every game I tried to play working on Linux (and tbf a large part of this is probably me fumbling the installation but I'm not an untechnical person either, so I'm sure this was the experience for many)
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The XBox Ally could still be worthwhile if it ran XBox One and backwards compatible XBox 360 and XBox games. I don't know why Microsoft didn't do that.We don't know that yet. Allegedly some old Xbox console only games like prototype and the darkness are showing up on the PC Xbox app so who knows
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I found the same thing on CachyOS (another Arch fork). The increase for me was staggering. Lies of P went from an unstable 144fps on windows 11 with an over lock (OC) on my GPU to 200fps in Cachy. Setting was were all maxed out at 1440p. I noticed a similar jump from other games. Modded and vanilla NBA 2K25 went a stuttery mess at 180fps (frequent dips down to 72fps) to a steady 180fps with NO dips. I like to test things on The First Descendent, and it went from an unstable 79fps with maxed settings to 119fps. And while I don’t have numbers for it, The Witcher 3 Next Gen (vanilla and heavily modded) run a lot smoother. But after ten years, that game has been optimized out the ass. I did notice, however, that the increase in performance diminished greatly as I turned down settings. On Windows 11, I would notice a way “higher” increase in frames. For Example, I could tweak settings in the First Descendent like Global illumination and increase frames in Windows 11 to 109fps, but still unstable. In Cachy, if I did these things, I didn’t really notice a meaningful impact. RT also performs slightly worse on Linux. But I figure anyone using Linux might be the same type of person to not care about RT. My hypothesis is that without the CPU resources being eaten up by things like Windows Defender, the CPU is able to process more data quicker, reducing GPU wait time. I don’t have data on that, I would need something as in depth as presentmon from Intel for testing. Arch has forks of that, but nothing nearly as in depth, and PresentMon has declined any Linux support in the foreseeable future. I should mention, the OVERALL jump is ~40% going to CachyOS. And we know that the jump from Windows 10 to 11 saw a ~27% hit due to the new Windows Defender. My system is 64GB of SK Hynix DDR5, 9070xt (on my Windows Partition it’s OC’d, but on CachyOS I leave it stock), and a 9800x3D that has been manually OC’d in the bios and a 240mm AIO. I leave the panels off my O11 D Mini. The motherboard is a Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite (2x8 pins for the CPU delivery). On my Ally, I also noticed a difference swapping to SteamOS. Something to keep in mind with anyone planning to do that, you can allocate up to 6GB of RAM to the iGPU before Arch/SteamOS gets affected. I just don’t see anyone telling you you can do this.
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I'm glad I'm one of those people who can't seem to percieve any difference above 60Hz Having low standards is pretty convenient
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Only there's a desktop mode that is easily accessible and opens up the device for all manner of uses.
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Why does it need to be dumbed down for the average joe? Why does guis need to be designed for the person not using it? Why not design them for the people using it now and improve them for the actual users of the software instead of the persons NOT using the software? Thats a stupid idea and that very line of thought is the brainrot that has led to the enshittification of so much the last couple of decades.
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I'm glad I'm one of those people who can't seem to percieve any difference above 60Hz Having low standards is pretty convenient
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It may be made for games but it's a more tolerable desktop experience than a fully fledged Windows PC. Which features/functions are "missing"
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You don't understand marketing and that people need a uniform experience. You need simplicity to get the average person. You're thinking as a advanced computer user, not a basic or novice user.
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You could use Nsight, it has a Linux version and is very in depth (shows every draw call, also has one that shows very detailed CPU tasks) Of course harder to use than presentmon
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Why do average users need to use linux. Let them stay in windows if that's where they are happy. Making linux into a system just as shitty as windows will just replace shit with different shit.But that's the whole issue. Microsoft will continue to dictate how the internet and computers in general function if the regular users don't adopt something else. The regular users won't adopt Linux because the current users of Linux want to gatekeep Linux. You bitch and complain "why do people user shitty Windows?" Then when given an answer say "we don't want them using Linux anyway." You are showing exactly how fucking stupid you are.
