fuck windows don’t even need to watch that shit
Can someone link the video? Im on phone and YouTube keeps breaking when trying to play it in the app.
Thank you!
Skimming the video, Windows 11 crashed on two games and everything else had parity or was slightly worse than Linux. Decent results.
They don’t mention it in the description but this is mainly about kernel fixes and some associated utilities which have improved VRAM management on AMD GPUs on Linux. It’s not upstreamed yet AFAICT, but that’s why they used CachyOS which includes the patches and utilities out of the box.
For those curious about which distribution because Linux alone does not mean much, from the description:
Windows 11 vs CachyOS gaming benchmark on 8GB RAM + RX 6650 XT 📽️ Captured with Elgato HD60 X (no FPS loss) 🖥️ Test Bench: ○ CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X (Stock) ○ MB: GIGABYTE X570 AUROS ELITE ○ RAM: 1x8GB DDR4 3600MHz CL14 ○ Cooler: HYPER 212 AIR COOLER ○ NVMe: 120GB NVME, 2TB NVME ○ PSU: Corsair RM1000X ○ OS: CachyOS ○ GPU 1: GIGABYTE RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 GAMING OC ○ Drivers: AMD Adrenalin 26.3.1 / MESA 26.0.5 Timestamps: 00:00 The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered 00:53 DOOM: The Dark Ages 01:42 Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 02:29 Resident Evil: Requiem 03:17 Death Stranding 2 PC 04:03 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 04:50 Alan Wake 2 05:37 Red Dead Redemption 2 06:26 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered 07:14 Windows 11 Configuration 07:35 CachyOS ConfigurationOstensibly, the one with less overhead. Part of the dream of DirectX was a lite statement that could focus on gaming — that ultimately became Xbox. So look at an Xbox One (not Series!) and run Linux on similar hardware (no SSD!) and see if you can beat it. I think it can be done but I’m not sure.
You’re right. Linux has always struggled to compete with hypothetical versions of Windows that aren’t available. But you see, for testing purposes, we’re forced to use the Windows version from this timeline.
Yeah, I kinda wish the Xbox One didn’t exist, too. I get what you’re saying though, that stripped-down version of Windows isn’t something you can get outside the console. Still, you not being able to use it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s still a fair thing to test against. Windows as a consumer grade OS isn’t really meant for gaming. Xbox is Windows stripped down to what’s needed for gaming. You can configure Linux to strip down for gaming, so why not compare apples to apples?
I know there are gaming-centric distros but I wonder, if someone built a Linux that was essentially a console equivalent, useless for anything else, how it would fare.
Like the Steam Deck?
That’s just default Bazzite. There’s not much included out the gate other than gaming dependencies.
There is no fundamental performance difference between these “gaming” distros and any other ones. Some minor kernel tweak maybe net a few percentage points here and there, but the gaming stack is still the same across the board, and very little can be done to squeeze more performance there without each just getting performance improvements.
Even still, you’d just install those same versions on any other distro and get those performance benefits.
It would be just fine. You can look at SteamOS on the Deck for exactly that (and I would assume the upcoming Desktop version will be similar). Bazzite in handheld mode is similar.
Much of the extra overhead comes from the desktop shell and window manager, so anything that swaps out stuff like Plasma or Gnome for something lighter is already on better footing.
Nintendo and PS are allegedly some variant of BSD, as is MacOs
Overhead isn’t everything. Windows just handles swapping better than Linux. More efficient swapping can mean better performance even with more ram usage.
