This proves that AC Oddysey runs faster on Linux than on Windows with your specific hardware. What this doesn't mean is that "Linux gaming is faster and smoother than Windows gaming".

Counter examples are Overwatch, CS:2, GTA V and many more.

Nobody reasonable doubts that Linux can perform as good or better than Windows, but claiming that this is true for all games is simply misinformation.

Wrong general claims like these lead to posts asking why their specific games run worse on Linux since they switched because they want more fps.

Don't get me started on older GPU's like 1000 series Nvidia that have problems with any vkd3d games so the performance is abysmal.

Why is it not enough that almost all games work on Linux with ±15% performance difference?

I'm as much a believer that Linux can get better performance than Windows because the less bloat, the best example is Blender which works almost twice as fast on Linux. That being said 25% increase on a game running on wine seems fishy.

Your video did not play correctly, also you didn't synced properly between the two at the start so it's hard to compare that both have the same settings, and on the screen at the end it shows windows is running in full screen and Linux in Borderless, not sure if this should make a difference but showcases that not every setting is the same. After the video crashed for the first time I skipped a bit ahead and saw that at one point you put the screen half-half, that's a good approach, but I also noticed that the right side had a character the left side didn't right at the start, that means that Wine is failing to render some stuff, or disabling some features which is usually what's happening when you get this massive performance differences, so the comparison might not be valid. An example would be if DXVK ray tracing implementation bounces the light less times than DX12 does, it would be almost indistinguishable but would have a performance boost (at which point my question would be to show me the benefits of bouncing the light more, but that's my opinion and not a technical analysis).

In any case, great video, even if something is different I couldn't see any significant difference in the screen when doing the side-by-side, and I don't think people who claim Linux is always worse would even know of the possibility of wine lacking some implementation therefore not rendering that.

I'm sorry, but if you see a 25% difference in a benchmark, that means your methodology is somehow flawed. A few percentage in either direction would be believable, but this difference would be so comical if true, that extra wariness is needed.

There's a few thing that look a bit off to me, but most importantly it seems like your OBS settings are wildly different between systems. It's a bit hard to make out, but it seems like you're doing CPU-based encoding on Linux and GPU-based encoding on Windows.

This is ragebait.

Dude, honestly stop making such "crazy" things.

Prople will debunk you then hit you to the ground. Just say the truth of the gimmiky things you do because a 25% performance boost is unreal.

A 5% to a maximum 10% is more believable but your stuff is a quarter of a video card processing power and this should ring you a bell of alarm because the doodoo you are eating there is pure BS.

Obligatory I play exclusively on linux.

In the absence of a gamersnexus video or phoronix article, I'm going to take this with a large grain of salt. Especially when a video like this one is showing much higher performance in windows. The different cpu shouldn't account for much of a difference when playing at higher resolutions and the benchmarks shows the game being gpu limited.

Can't we just stop trying to be "a better Windows"? Just leave the poor fella alone -- he already killed himself anyways. :^)

Honestly I would prefer Linux even if I lost 25% of the performance in games and that's like the main thing I use a computer for. Windows 10 was such a hassle to set up so it wouldn't annoy me that I don't ever want to do it again.

I want to switch to Linux and I would love to game on it daily, but just like so many people, software incompatibility is holding me onto Windows.

In my case, it's Parsec that I need, because I game a lot with friends who live in other countries. And unfortunately, Steam's remote play together feature is very broken on Linux (I remember even filing bug reports about it when I was daily driving Linux two-ish years ago.

And you uploaded it to peertube. Good lad! Thanks for the video

I have been enjoying gaming on Linux for many years, I am glad you're sharing that for the windoze users.

Apex legends was a good 30% increase for me.

I just have to comment here about the "like getting a new GPU", because do people really upgrade that frequently? I generally see a much bigger jump in performance when upgrading.

How's the state of Nvidia's drivers? Do the shiny new features work? Things like RT, frame gen, ray reconstruction, and randomly crashing the game because the driver has tripped TDR yet again?

Okay, Linux doesn't need the last one.

Haven’t watched the video yet but I’d like to add from my very limited experience. I recently switched to Kubuntu (still have my windows boot) and the one game I play (Red Dead Redemption 2) seems to be running worse. I haven’t done much testing at all so it could be something I can adjust and get running better.

Having said that, general day-to-day performance is miles ahead of my Windows install.

If I could get RDR2 to run better on Linux and DaVinci Resolve to run I’d have no need to keep my Windows install.

Welp, I don't even have a GPU lol.