cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37914772
In a not-so-scientific benchmark conducted by YouTuber Cyber Dopamine, the Rog Xbox Ally managed to perform better without Windows, the operating system it ships with out of the box. Cyber installed Bazzite, a popular Linux distro for handhelds built specifically to offer that console-esque, seamless experience. Visually, Bazzite looks identical to SteamOS because it uses Steam’s Big Picture Mode as its main launcher. It also behaves similarly, but has its own custom menus and settings for customizing things like power profiles (which override Asus’ built-in ones).
When testing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyber noticed a shockingly significant jump in FPS, with Linux generating ~32% more FPS compared to Windows. This trend follows at lower wattages, albeit with less noticeable differences, and the delta actually plateaus in Hogwarts Legacy to the point that both Bazzite and the Xbox FSE offer the same FPS at 13W. That being said, those frame rates are much more consistent on Linux, according to Cyber, who shows that the FPS graph on Windows fluctuates regularly, while staying mostly flat on Bazzite.
Are there any things in which windows is still better than linux?
Mine was an expert at letting me know I still haven’t signed in to one drive. was…
Installing rootkits on your computer i.e. kernel-level anti-cheat
Market share
ABI stability?
UEFI installs on cutting edge hardware are sometimes slightly smoother?
Its getting better at breaking
It’s bad test.
Watch the video the tdp, clock speeds for cpu and gpu are much higher on Linux which accounts for the differences
Sounds like another metric to show Linux is running better
Because its using more power and has a higher tdp?
That’s apples and oranges. At the same power limits they have same performance. With higher power limit ofc you’ll have higher performance.
