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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I can definitely believe this on low power machines.

I got a N150 Mini PC the other week, and it comes with Win 11. It thrashed around at 100% CPU doing updates and virus checks and fuck knows what other background tasks Windows considers more essential than whatever I tell it to do. Case was red hot.

So I popped the latest Ubuntu on it. Is it perfect? No. I had to mess around with Firefox "snap" for ages and type arcane commands to make it find the N150's tiny GPU. And it still can't play videos using the hardware. But other than that, it just works, just the bare essentials, and then gets out the way. Sits at about 2% CPU use when idle.

MS seriously need to cut bloat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

What a shock

Shitty OS is shitty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think a far more likely reason for any slow down is Lenovo's Windows drivers suck, or Windows defaults to a power saving mode that improves battery life but impacts performance, or Windows has antivirus or some other impactful service running that they didn't turn off. Since the article neglects to say if they tweaked Windows I have to assume they didn't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It was already shown that SteamOS is way better in terms of battery performance than Windows. So if Windows uses power saving mode by default, these results are even more damning:

There might be some tweaks to mitigate some of the short comings of Windows, but that doesn't changed that the script has flipped. Before it was Linux that required tweaking and Windows would have a decent out of the box experience. Now SteamOS works great out of the Box while Windows needs tweaks. And at that point there is no reason for sticking with Windows unless your software specifically demands it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Running a windows game using Proton-GE 10.4 and a Wayland desktop is even faster still.

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