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Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been using arch and manjaro for the past 3 years with awesomewm and gnome (can't get awesomewm to behave with second monitor while gaming so I switch to gnome when using the second monitor, using laptop) and this has pretty much been my experience. Windows is bloated and it never"just works".

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Windows almost always just works.

    This seems crazy to say when talking about Linux. Especially when saying you have to switch to use dual monitors.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have to agree. I love Linux but Windows really does just work. Especially when it comes to gaming. I applaud anyone that enjoys Linux gaming but don't act like it's anywhere near as simple as on windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For me it has been that simple, but to get to that simplicity took a lot of work. I've tried Windows 11 and it just sucked for gaming. Stuttered like mad on Cyberpunk and Bluetooth had major latency problems, and neither occurred on Linux.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah. In all the time I’ve been using windows I never had a problem that people constantly report; even BSOD happened quite rarely. I never got my pc to randomly shut down and update either…

    Like, I switched to Linux cause i saw it as cool, wanted to try it out and liked how customisable it was and mostly to spite the megacorp

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nearly always something random breaks for me on windows, and it's a huge pain to fix it. I hate dealing with windows, Linux is easier, because it isn't a black box.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    A stupid amount of non tech users manage to use it absolutely fine, so I'm not sure what you're doing wrong tbh.

    Linux is 100% not easier and not advertised as such.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    A stupid amount of non tech users manage to use it

    Meanwhile, most of those users are running systems that are so deteriorated that it takes them a minute+ to open a browser.

    On a machine that they only use to browse internet.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not without stuff breaking constantly

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You talking about Linux or windows haha

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Believe it or not, but since I switched fully to linux things have been running a lot more smoothly to me. The biggest issue, if anything, being bad support for the operating system from some applications, but that excuse doesn't work for windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like skill issue when even grandmas can use Windows

    Yeah we love Linux but don't need the exaggerations

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    My parents can't use windows but they can use Linux - their windows was covered in "you need to update" and OEM thingies asking them to consider the premium package and shutting down against the user's will and adverts for onedrive and that ridiculous universal search feature that can find things on Bing but not your My Documents folder and the antivirus showing distressing messages about how your PC is dangerous unless you pay for the deluxe service. Not all of that is "Windows" it's true but it's partially Windows fault that uninstalling things is so difficult - some things are on the "add and remove software", some aren't. All of that is standard part of the Windows experience on the Windows ecosystem, even if it's not all intrinsically Windows. So I put Linux on their laptop and GNOME just lets them easily use their browser, email and files without needing to dig through settings to disable tracking, without shutting down against your will, without saying you have to buy new hardware to update versions.

    So there are points on both sides but don't say that Windows is unarguably easier.

    Edit: not to mention that using a package manger's GUI is clearly easier - and easier to do safely - than getting software by surfing the internet for MSIs and EXEs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Linux allows you to change anything. Like using a WM that's specifically made for enthusiasts, and developed by random people in their spare time.

    Windows doesn't allow you to move the taskbar.

    Who'd guess some Linux setups are not going to be plug and play...

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm creating my own desktop environment and deal with bugs here and there that I fix on my own since it's my own product. It's designed with my needs in mind created by someone who doesn't know what he's doing half the time.

    There are absolutely awesome products like gnome and kde that just work. You can use them to get a stable environment that are designed to work in multitude of situations for general public. Windows never just works, you just learn to ignore its shortcomings. Like updating in the background even when you need the bandwidth, lack of central update station for your apps, dealing with lengthy custom install processes trying to impose bloatware you didn't ask for, uninstall processes begging you not to uninstall the sweet sweet spyware.

    You just learn not to let these problems bother you. And that's not anything personal against you, it's just how a bad product with good marketing works. Linux is objectively better.

    You may want a few products that are built for Windows and are not available on Linux and you wouldn't want to try an alternative that may even work better objectively and that is absolutely your choice and is respectable. You may not want to learn a new environment and stay in your safe zone and that's respectable. But you can't use your safe zone to decide what's better. A free product that provides better hardware support, faster communication bus, easier user experience with much faster bug fix and release cycle, tons and tons of choice is objectively better. You are free not to try it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Those things aren't it not working. They're just things you don't like. They all work.

    The vast majority of users don't give a shit about manual os updates and just want it done. You can absolutely pause updates. I think by default it gives you two weeks before it starts complaining. So you just need to do your updates manually at a time that suits you.

    Winget allows you to install a huge amount of software. It works as your central update location.

    You can normally run uninstalls silently.

    The default configuration is for an average user. It's can be customized quite a bit.

    I find Linux users complaining about the default configuration funny.

    Just a skill issue hehe

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same can be said about Windows users. The default is what defines the just works statement. The default is shit, you just learn to ignore it or find ways to make a bad product sort of work for you. You need to do basic stuff the hard way and still believe the product is alright. "you can pause updates for two weeks" translates to "the product is designed to assume you own it for up to two weeks". It's not a feature mate, it's not a skill to circumvent it, it's bending over backwards and paying money to do so.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Just as a note on what I do on Linux besides programming Browsing, multimedia, bluetooth obviously work Gaming:

    • Cyberpunk
    • Dota
    • Baldur's gate 3
    • Titanfall 2
    • Batman arkham series
    • Assassin's creed, almost all of them except that last three which I didn't even buy
    • various pixel art and voxel games

    All with the bare setup of Manjaro or Arch gaming profile worked out of the box.

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