Linux is now the best gaming system. ｜ fernvenue's Blog
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When it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era. For the past few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for both work and gaming. From my personal experience, the gaming experience on Linux is far superior to that of macOS and Windows. I know I know…whenever I mention this, there are always some old-school individuals who come out to say that Linux’s driver configuration is complex, its game support is not rich enough, and its compatibility issues are significant, among other problems. In this article, I will directly address these issues and let everyone understand how much the gaming experience on Linux has developed by 2025.
  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ve got the load times from my own old world of warships install to prove it.

    That’s what we call an anecdote.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      No that’s what we call HDD fragmentation, and the whole point of fragmentless filesystems like ext2/3/4, UFS, HFS, APFS, etc.

      And it’s not like a small difference, the load time and HDD read demand was down by 40% system wide, not just videogames.

      I’d even go and demo it again, but I removed windows from my ye olde HDD a few years ago. I mentioned WoWs specifically because its a asset heavy game that I actually happened to have installed both on Windows and on Linux on the same HDD, each within their own respective partition.

      spoiler

      Also bonus, HDDs were getting so bottlenecked that Vista introduced preload file fetching to guess which files to cache in RAM based on read call usage, which then also became a feature in Linux with the preload daemon which no one uses anymore.