With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows

the gains come from the reduced overhead that linux has compared to windows

literally the next line

..the games here are being run through proton

I really hate the dismissal of the heavy lifting proton does. Proton is what makes gaming on Linux so great. So many native linux games perform worse on Linux vs their windows counterparts. Then again, I'd expect nothing less from Dave2D

A performance uplift plus double or tripled battery life compared to running on Windows.....hot damn that's impressive.

Get rekt Windows.

Windows Gamers (who will never switch to Linux): Linux still isn't ready for mass adoption

Battery Life:

Valve doubling down on Linux as the default OS on the Steam Deck was such a great decision. It obviously has given them a massive competitive edge. Windows has become so horribly bloated, and Microsoft has almost zero interest in making it run more efficiently.

Goes to show how much bloat is in Windows that it kills hardware like this.

So I'm not insane. Monster Hunter Wilds and Helldiver's II both run better on my Ubuntu image with the same hardware than my Windows 10 image.

Does that mean that Proton and Vulkan are far more efficient than Direct3D?

Holy shit triple the hours

They said make electric cars fast, and you'll get car guys to buy in. It was true.

Now they're making linux make video games faster and prettier...

I dont know if there will ever be a year of the linux desktop, but this is the kind of stuff you gotta do to get there.

Hmm, it's like having spyware constantly run in the background slows down the computer?

Back in ~2010, my first dual boot was an Ubuntu. It was fairly easy to run WoW from Linux and it gave me a solid >15fps while Windows ran at less than 10fps.

I was very young at the time but still aware that this was super impressive with extra compatibility layers. That definitely took part in selling Linux to me.

makes a lot of sense honestly. I never knew the numbers behind it (tks for sharing). when I was ripping witcher 3 on nobara and then changed my OS back to Windows due to work related issues, I felt a SIGNIFICANT performance drop. the game became laggy, when it used to run top on Linux with the same settings. good share - the time for Linux gaming is now.

Linux Dev's anti Sony bias shows front and center

/s

Valve won. Maybe it's lucky timing, or maybe Gabe is actually a genius, but it's only going to get worse for Windows as there is no way in hell Microsoft shifts resources from AI projects to make Windows better for PC gaming. Recently, Capcom announced that their PC gaming sales surpassed their console sales, and I don't think it's likely we'll see that trend changing, and it's also likely other publishers will make similar announcements soon (although idk if they count SteamOS as a console). The Switch 2 is coming out soon, but people already say it's too expensive, and there are controversies surrounding some of their product decisions.

Will this bring about the era of the Linux desktop? Idk, but the era of the Linux gaming PC is inevitable now.

Spoderman no

I am a little curious how something like Ubuntu would do on one of these gaming handhelds. Steam OS is a nicer user experience but I always wonder if it also adds any significant optimization.

I’d love to know what windows figures would be like with a stripped down guts ripped out windows, such as revi.cc.

The speed of Linux is unmatched!

That's interesting. But the second graph is designed to confuse.

I'd still take this with a grain of salt. Not many games tested, and the SteamOS build might've been tweaked and worked on more to be more optimized.

Now what about windows 10 ltsc iot, the ONLY version of windows worth comparing to linux.

Can it play MH Wilds?

So a specialized OS wins over a general OS in their specific tasks?

Amazing ...