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[–] cron@feddit.de 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

While I love good news for Linux gaming, this article is IMO a litre too positive. In the last part, notebookcheck picks the games that Linux distros were best in and presents a biased picture.

But the general message is positive: When games run under Linux, the performance is probably equal or better than with Windows. (And Windows has compatibility problems too).

Exactly. The message should be: similar performance to Windows, give or take about 10% depending on the game.

So if you're already interested in switching to Linux, SP gaming won't be much of a concern.

[–] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yap, ProtonDB give us a good picture, mostly games still have minor issues. But, I like this kind of thing because show potential. If gamedev do they homework, the Linux experience could be better performance.

[–] cron@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

You are right, these experiments really show that Linux is suitable for gaming, just some games aren't running on Linux.