Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    1 month ago

    I remember back in the day, running Quake3 on linux provided better FPS than on windows. I haven’t compared the two since then on any game.

    Is it still the case? And is this difference (mostly) there in other games too?

    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      1 month ago

      On AMD, it’s not uncommon for games to perform better than on Windows.

      For Nvidia, games almost always perform worse than on Windows.

      • Vikthor@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 month ago

        Well, no surprise, AMD’s cooperation with Linux/Mesa/etc. devs is longer and deeper than Nvidia’s. In fact, when Linus Torvalds was asked about how cooperative Nvidia are, he gave them the finger.

        • kopasz7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          For all the flak they (rightfully!) get, a 1st party open source nvidia driver is in the works.

          Altough it’s only the userspace part and it’s not compliant (yet?) to be upstreamed into the kernel. It is still something.