We’re finally benchmarking GPU performance in Linux, first using the Bazzite OS following thousands of community requests specifically for this operating system. A lot of this is exploratory and research for establishing methodology, so we’re still learning how to control the platforms and software for this benchmarking. In the very least, this allows us to start generating some exit velocity from Windows for some people. Linux still isn’t for everyone. Some users, like our own production machines, are bound to Windows by compatibility requirements with certain software. But gaming has dramatically improved on Linux over the years and is developing fast (despite still having issues), and so it may slowly start to become more viable for gaming users in particular.
In short: They made a test suite that runs on Linux. No clear advantage was measured? Hence people are empowered to switch to Linux?
(Not gonna watch the long video, but am a least curious to the state of gaming on Linux and this is not a GN community i.e. I expect others to also not want to watch such a long video but be kept in the loop)
Then why are you complaining about not getting a Gamers Nexus video that benchmarks game performance spelled out to you when it isn’t even relevant to your use case?
It touches on an interesting topic. Gaming on Linux. I only explained what my performance expectations would be since they outlined theirs and mine contrast starkly.
Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn’t work “right” in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can’t directly compare “120 fps” on their specific linux setup with “120 fps” on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.
A link to a long video without summary is not particularly useful to someone just scrolling by. A brief statement on how the OS used may be detrimental to windows would have been useful, for example.
Believe it or not but some content isn’t conducive to being tweeted.
The high level summary you want is “Gamers Nexus is doing linux gpu benchmarking using bazzite”. If you want actual details, watch the video (or at least skim to the graphs).
Personally, in this case I think the title itself is enough info to determine if it’s an interesting enough topic to visit the youtube page to then read the description for more info before clicking play. Some lemmy clients even provide the youtube description in the post itself (the desktop Lemmy-UI only shows a short preview of the description).
For videos that don’t have a simple premise and are difficult to capture in a short post title, I sometimes add a longer description and my own thoughts in the post body (such as when I post movies to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social), but for videos like this, which is quite straight forward, I don’t feel the need to summarize their methodology of the benchmarks, since it’s there in the video for those interested, but most will be more interested in the benchmark data itself.
A brief statement on how the OS used may be detrimental to windows would have been useful, for example.
This testing is not comparative to Windows benchmarks, it is only testing and comparing benchmarks on Linux between different GPUs. This is sort’ve a big deal, because GamersNexus is known for extremely rigorous and consistent testing, to the point where all in it cost them 10K in labor to fully set up their Linux testing suite. Long term this is a great boon to Linux gamers for deciding what hardware to purchase for their needs.
A short summary would have been nice. As far as I know YT even gives a AI generated one for free.
From the video description:
In short: They made a test suite that runs on Linux. No clear advantage was measured? Hence people are empowered to switch to Linux?
(Not gonna watch the long video, but am a least curious to the state of gaming on Linux and this is not a GN community i.e. I expect others to also not want to watch such a long video but be kept in the loop)
Being able to use anything other than Windows without any significant loss in performance is a pretty fucking big advantage.
I expected hardware to perform similar independent of OS. Then again I only use Linux for productive tasks.
Then why are you complaining about not getting a Gamers Nexus video that benchmarks game performance spelled out to you when it isn’t even relevant to your use case?
It touches on an interesting topic. Gaming on Linux. I only explained what my performance expectations would be since they outlined theirs and mine contrast starkly.
Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn’t work “right” in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can’t directly compare “120 fps” on their specific linux setup with “120 fps” on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.
I’m not sure what advantage a summary of benchmarks across multiple games would bring, or how that amount of data could be summarized.
A link to a long video without summary is not particularly useful to someone just scrolling by. A brief statement on how the OS used may be detrimental to windows would have been useful, for example.
Believe it or not but some content isn’t conducive to being tweeted.
The high level summary you want is “Gamers Nexus is doing linux gpu benchmarking using bazzite”. If you want actual details, watch the video (or at least skim to the graphs).
Personally, in this case I think the title itself is enough info to determine if it’s an interesting enough topic to visit the youtube page to then read the description for more info before clicking play. Some lemmy clients even provide the youtube description in the post itself (the desktop Lemmy-UI only shows a short preview of the description).
For videos that don’t have a simple premise and are difficult to capture in a short post title, I sometimes add a longer description and my own thoughts in the post body (such as when I post movies to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social), but for videos like this, which is quite straight forward, I don’t feel the need to summarize their methodology of the benchmarks, since it’s there in the video for those interested, but most will be more interested in the benchmark data itself.
This testing is not comparative to Windows benchmarks, it is only testing and comparing benchmarks on Linux between different GPUs. This is sort’ve a big deal, because GamersNexus is known for extremely rigorous and consistent testing, to the point where all in it cost them 10K in labor to fully set up their Linux testing suite. Long term this is a great boon to Linux gamers for deciding what hardware to purchase for their needs.