All three Linux distros managed to beat Windows 11 while using Vavle's Proton compatibility layer.

Nobara OS, Arch Linux and Pop!_OS beat Windows 11 by a slim margin in fps (delta 8) in Windows native games - Cyberpunk 2077, Forspoken, Starfield and The Talos Principle II. Windows 11 wins in Rachet & Clank.

ComputerBase’s testing was done on an all-AMD test rig, featuring a Ryzen 7 5800X (non-3D) and a Radeon RX 6700 XT.

Update: Windows 11 wins in one game.

  • @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
    38•7 months ago

    I recently switched to ubuntu in a gaming laptop, right now I’ve been using it just for jellyfin and some other coding tasks, but it definitely runs smoother, more stable, quicker, and cooler than windows did for the same workload.
    I was surprised at the difference of even just having the machine idle, on windows it was noticeable warm, now on ubuntu it’s almost as if it has been turned off.

      • @entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        21•7 months ago

        If Valve made a Linux OS… or even at the very least started making honest proposals at unifying how the OS ran, so that their efforts in getting gaming to work on it could be more widely productive; we could see a radical shift in adoption.

        Sorry, does SteamOS 3 not count? Is Valve’s massive investment in Mesa, Wine, Wayland (HDR, Gamescope, etc) not exactly what you’re talking about? I feel like we’re living in parallel dimensions or something lol

        • LUHGEnglish
          5•7 months ago

          Yh it does count although it only supports a certain set of hardware. Not entirely sure if that’s true though.

          • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            10•7 months ago

            Yes but the improvements and contributing Valve made to various packages in the Linux ecosystem and the kernel were all pushed upstream meaning any Linux distribution can benefit from them.

          • @Hinrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22•7 months ago

            Aren’t all of these things basically out-of-band investments? They didn’t recontribute upstream to these projects from what I understand

            Maintaining a fork is not mutually exclusive with contributing changes upstream. Valve’s policy is to upstream everything.

          • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9•7 months ago

            So many errors in what you’ve said. Valve made Proton with the developers from CodeWeavers who make Wine, quite literally investing in the developers and development of Wine itself. And given Valve upstream everything, your comments about forking, back porting, etc are quite ill informed.

      • yeehawEnglish
        13•7 months ago

        Steam deck was definitely a move in this direction. From what I hear people like it. If they like it, I see more traction to it as people understand that it’s not windows. Ya never know. 2035: year of the Linux desktop!