• @simple@lemm.eeOP
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      5613 days ago

      The battery life test is even more damning. SteamOS in some cases had more than 2x better battery life.

      • Fubarberry
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        7113 days ago

        Yeah you’re right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.

          • @Laser@feddit.org
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            1712 days ago

            It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn’t very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent

          • Fubarberry
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            Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can’t get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.

            • @xavier666@lemm.ee
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              912 days ago

              This explains why Windows laptops just randomly start spinning their fans. Random energy consumption -> heat production increased -> fan spins

              • DremorM
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                612 days ago

                It takes a lot of power to send half your life to the other side of the world, to MS datawarehouse.

      • @pycorax@lemmy.world
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        212 days ago

        Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.

    • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Who would have predicted, a decade ago, that the path to the actual year of the linux desktop would be taken first through the linux handheld gaming PC?

      … Also LoL at SpiderMan 2, the only one that does a single frame worse, which basically at this point is just a solid indicator that game is still unoptimized as all hell.

      Old man Gabe has been playing the long game, for all these years.

      Ex-MSFT employee on a mission to apparently save us all from MSFT this whole time hahaha

      • @Gonzako@lemmy.world
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        912 days ago

        It’s not like all the alternatives to Linux aren’t that good. Mac is a walled garden and Windows keeps introducing AI slop feature after AI slop feature that actually publishes your personal information

        • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I mean, Macs are certainly a viable alternative for many people…

          But if you wanna use your PC to play games?

          About 25% of Steam’s library runs on Mac.

          Whereas if you look at ProtonDB, 81% of games are either gold or platinum on Linux in general, 86% if you throw silver in.

          That’s gonna be a major hangup for a lot of people who want a PC that isn’t Windows.

          Oh right, that and Macs are all overpriced as fuck for the average consumer, when we are about to enter into the Second Great Depression.

    • @regdog@lemmy.world
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      711 days ago

      This screenshot is also slightly misleading since the color scheme suggests that 5 out of 5 games run better on SteamOS then on Windows. But if you check the numbers it is only 4 out of 5 games.

      • DremorM
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        By 1 fps. Could be the within the margin of error.

    • @Vince@lemmy.world
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      613 days ago

      Interesting, I wonder if the games with a bigger improvement is more CPU bound than GPU bound

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        My understanding is it’s mostly just the advantage of not having windows running hogging resources, so it should be a bigger gain for CPU bound games.

        **Edit ** There can be performance gains from using vulkan over DirectX too, so there probably are GPU gains as well. It will depend on the game though