Steam Deck (curr. US$626.98 on Amazon)
Hmm… Doesn’t give me confidence in their journalistic integrity.
Figure I should give context here. The Steam Deck isn’t available on Amazon. The link they give (which is covered in their affiliate nonsense, of course) is to one of those third party resellers.
Morality of those resellers aside, probably not what the article should be linking to as where to buy one.
Morality of those resellers aside, probably not what the article should be linking to as where to buy one.
They probably have a deal with Amazon where they get a cut if you buy it through a link from their site.
Silly article. I’m sure you could find a lot more than 3 linux distros that perform similarly.
That’s because besides different packaging, these linux distros are all running pretty much the same software. There’s likely less than 1% difference between the lot.
While I love good news for Linux gaming, this article is IMO a litre too positive. In the last part, notebookcheck picks the games that Linux distros were best in and presents a biased picture.
But the general message is positive: When games run under Linux, the performance is probably equal or better than with Windows. (And Windows has compatibility problems too).
Yap, ProtonDB give us a good picture, mostly games still have minor issues. But, I like this kind of thing because show potential. If gamedev do they homework, the Linux experience could be better performance.
I guess none of the tests included game compatibility 😆
I joke, I love seeing linux getting these Ws over windows and things like this really do help people consider Linux as a choice
i mean, the compatibility is true though. i would love to switch to Linux on my gaming machine, but i don’t wanna jump through the hoops.
What hoops? Unless the game has rootkit like Antichrist they work pretty great already. Checkout protondb to see the compatibility of steam games.
I didn’t see anyone pointing out explicitly that this was not in native Linux games, but in Windows-native games running Proton.
When I read the headline, I thought that of course Linux will outperform Windows on native apps. It’s more surprising that Linux outperforms while running the overhead of a compatibility layer.
