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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews (youtu.be)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (18 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (8 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days 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.

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