cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37914772
In a not-so-scientific benchmark conducted by YouTuber Cyber Dopamine, the Rog Xbox Ally managed to perform better without Windows, the operating system it ships with out of the box. Cyber installed Bazzite, a popular Linux distro for handhelds built specifically to offer that console-esque, seamless experience. Visually, Bazzite looks identical to SteamOS because it uses Steam’s Big Picture Mode as its main launcher. It also behaves similarly, but has its own custom menus and settings for customizing things like power profiles (which override Asus’ built-in ones).
When testing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyber noticed a shockingly significant jump in FPS, with Linux generating ~32% more FPS compared to Windows. This trend follows at lower wattages, albeit with less noticeable differences, and the delta actually plateaus in Hogwarts Legacy to the point that both Bazzite and the Xbox FSE offer the same FPS at 13W. That being said, those frame rates are much more consistent on Linux, according to Cyber, who shows that the FPS graph on Windows fluctuates regularly, while staying mostly flat on Bazzite.
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Are there any things in which windows is still better than linux?
It’s the first test bed for every developer, which means something like a headset utility is more reliably going to work on Windows. But it’s impressive even that margin is falling.
Imagine seeing Nvidia drop Shadowplay features to push their own beta app improvements, while the Linux imitator for Shadowplay still works simply and fine, and doesn’t even drop for “DRM detected” issues.
Or trying to install/update Epic/Ubisoft games needing to go through another terrible UI upgrade while Heroic and Lutris still look the same.
A year ago, I tried Linux and felt frustrated about some minor UI inconsistencies and fiddling. Recently, I tried again, and it still had stuff to work through, but I was patient for it because now I’m dealing with all that same shit on Windows.
Oh yeah, though to hotkey audio switching I ended up writing my own bash script which was clunky. Curious if anyone better than myself might take charge there.
Mine was an expert at letting me know I still haven’t signed in to one drive. was…
Installing rootkits on your computer i.e. kernel-level anti-cheat
UEFI installs on cutting edge hardware are sometimes slightly smoother?
Its getting better at breaking
Market share
It’s bad test.
Watch the video the tdp, clock speeds for cpu and gpu are much higher on Linux which accounts for the differences
Sounds like another metric to show Linux is running better
Because its using more power and has a higher tdp?
That’s apples and oranges. At the same power limits they have same performance. With higher power limit ofc you’ll have higher performance.
Did you watch the video? The very first comparison has Linux with higher FPS at the exact same wattage.
Yes I watched the whole thing. Did you?
1-2 fps isn’t faster when it’s not identical scenes.
Windows was faster by 1 fps in hogwarts legacy at 13w 😆. Does that make windows better? No. It’s margin of error.
ABI stability?
