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Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average::Computers, hardware, software and gaming in Spanish and English

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Nvidia is their own worst enemy as regards Linux. When everyone realizes games work better under Linux and AMD, nVidia will be crying outside the gate. We're 5 years into Proton, in another 5 years there won't be a game that doesn't run better on Linux.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

When everyone realizes games work better under Linux and AMD, nVidia will be crying outside the gate.

So you think Microsoft spends 8 billion dollars acquiring Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane Studios, id Software, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Online Studios in 2020 and then proceeds to spend 68 billion dollars on acquiring Activision Blizzard...

... just to stand on the sidelines watching everyone drop Windows as a gaming platform?

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

They do lock you to Windows to use GamePass, but as long as the games are available on other marketplaces they'll be playable on Linux. The Xbox app, which is what you have to use for GamePass for some stupid reason, installs games in a special encrypted format that can't (easily) be executed from outside of it.

[-] yuriy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So that’s why I never got into gamepass!

I knew there had to be a reason, couldn’t be that I’m just lazy.

[-] Almamu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Do you realize that it doesn't matter to them if gamers use Windows or not, right? Windows is big on the enterprise side, consumer OS is the least of their worries, and their gaming division doesn't lose anything if gamers run their games on Linux, thanks to steam actually. So no, I don't think that maters...

Not to mention that we're talking about Nvidia and having a shitty ass driver being a bad thing long term for them, not Microsoft.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Oh... The home users matters to Microsoft. A lot.

MS have been standing by the sidelines watching Google raking home all that sweet money made from all that personal data Android and Chrome users happily hand over.

Why do you think you're able to install Windows and use it without activating it? Because Microsoft are nice guys doing charity?

No. Microsoft aren't dropping the home market. They've just been repositioning themselves the last couple of years.1

[-] PorkTaco@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

nVidia will be crying outside the gate

Yeeeeaaah I really doubt it sorry

[-] rurutheguru 6 points 1 year ago

Linux performance with proton has increased so drastically in recent years, your statement can be taken as wishful thinking at first, but there is a definite trend and I agree that Linux will probably be the powerhouse of gaming in coming years.

[-] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Lol I swear lemmy users are the most delusional bunch

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

We’re 5 years into Proton, in another 5 years there won’t be a game that doesn’t run better on Linux.

Insh'allah :D (* I'm an atheist, but the phrase is kind of fitting)

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