A video for any doubters that Linux gaming is better than Windows in which it DESTROYS Windows by 25% in AC Odyssey. To put it in perspective, 25% improvement is like getting a new GPU. You can save $600 and instead use something like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for free.

DISCLAIMER: I don’t really care to make Linux look better but I did a video some days ago and EVERYONE (on Reddit) told me Linux gaming CANNOT be faster or smoother. This is the proof it’s both and more videos will be coming.

      • ram
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        22 years ago

        Oh I agree, but “For all the doubters” is deliberately provocative. We can agree on that, right?

        • Reverse ModuleOP
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          22 years ago

          I mean this thread alone proves my point and my title. I have a video with 10 games coming up, DXVK, VKD3D, Vulkan on Proton and Native Vulkan. Let’s see how this goes with all the people that doubt that Linux Gaming is actually better than Windows.

          • ram
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            42 years ago

            You really feel like the only reason to use or not use Linux is how much you can game on it, eh?

            I’d rather push Linux for its strengths than lie and spread misinfo to lead people to believe Linux is always better than Windows at gaming perf. There’s many times it’s not, or it’s incompatible, or you need to spend possibly hours finding the right community-developed launcher / recompilation to get it to run. Gaming on Linux is a mess, that’s the only certainty about it lol

            The abject strengths of Linux are its command line, its customisability, its compatibility with various utility softwares, and its productivity. Instead of drinking copium over a fruitless effort, just focus on actual strengths lmao

            • Reverse ModuleOP
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              12 years ago

              Linux gaming is definitely not a mess. XD

              But beyond that, I don’t care how Linux performs in games. I play CP on RT Ultra in Linux while on Windows it has double the performance. Too much of a hassle to reboot while Linux has liek 30 measurable advantages.

              I just want to dispel the myth that Windows is better for gaming, cause it’s not.

              • ram
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                62 years ago

                Windows is more easily compatible for gaming, generally, and for 90% of people that’s all that matters. Specifically various anti-cheats do not play well with Linux.

                • Reverse ModuleOP
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                  12 years ago

                  I agree about the anticheat games. Beyond that if you don’t play some extremely niche 1995 game, Linux will most probably work fine and better on an AMD system.

  • Zari
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    402 years ago

    Dude, honestly stop making such “crazy” things.

    Prople will debunk you then hit you to the ground. Just say the truth of the gimmiky things you do because a 25% performance boost is unreal.

    A 5% to a maximum 10% is more believable but your stuff is a quarter of a video card processing power and this should ring you a bell of alarm because the doodoo you are eating there is pure BS.

    • Reverse ModuleOP
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      82 years ago

      Say what you will, I posted ALL the settings and updates and OBS Settings in video form. I am not obliged to do any of these things. People have come here stating that they don’t believe this is real without ANY arguments. When you want to talk seriously, maybe, we can do it.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 years ago

        Linux gaming is a little hit or miss. Some games have a performance boost. Some are about the same. And some games perform worse. This is the reality. And this is what should be expected.

        Your post is still true for your specific hardware and this specific game, with these specific drivers, but let’s not go crazy here. Linux is good, yes. Fantastic even, on the Steam Deck. On PC most people are better off sticking with Windows, especially if you play a couple of competitive multiplayer titles. Or if you want to stream games from one device to another in house. Or if you have limited time and just want shit to work. Linux is getting closer, but the out of the box experience need to become way better and I don’t doubt it will sooner rather than later.

        • Reverse ModuleOP
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          32 years ago

          The Linux gaming experience is better than Windows on AMD. Period. I’ve been testing games on many systems (mostly on AMD) through the Proton years. I just want t debunk the myth that Linux gaming is worse. Cause it’s not. It’s better.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Depends. I need Parsec as host. Or something equivalent. And I couldn’t find it. So I’m stuck where I am.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          I really hate seeing the words “Linux is getting closer” as if the entire point of running Linux is an alternative platform to run games on.

          It is not, Linux is really not any different than it was when the first distributions released. This is it. Yes things like DXVK and WINE and Proton are going to improve, but those things are not Linux, they are software that RUNS on Linux. If you actually want to make the switch to Linux, then you aren’t going to wait until it is “perfect” because none of it is ever going to be perfect, that is the nature of all things in the universe. If you truly want to embrace something, you have to embrace the bullshit as well, that’s why I made the switch 17-18 years ago and never went back to windows for a daily.

          The entire point of Linux is to have a malleable free and open source operating system that can be used for any application from desktop to server to embedded. The fact alone that it is a different operating system will already change the ways you do things, but the additional fact that it is not supported on the desktop front by corporations but rather the community means you will have to make sacrifices, but a community backing will give so much more in the end.

          • ram
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            32 years ago

            I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

            Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        It is amazing that person’s entire argument amounts to “nuh-uh”. Like okay… they’re confident someone will debunk it, but they aren’t going to?

        Sounds like they shouldn’t be so confident then.

        • Zari
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          22 years ago

          Inform yourself what a “video card core” does, how many “transistors” has, what “clock core speed” does and what cache levels is and does.

          Out of the bat this guy has 25% more transistors in his core then the entire original GPU and LOOKS FISHY AF.

          Straight out of the bat 25% more transistors! Outrageous.

        • Reverse ModuleOP
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          22 years ago

          He also got more likes than me with his no-post. Be reminded of that. People live on copium.

  • @[email protected]
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    I do all my gaming on Linux EXCEPT there is this one niche game that, at a certain point, needs so much repetitive grinding for resources that pretty much everyone uses macros for it. Guess what? I have gotten to that point, and unfortunately, the only macro that’s efficient enough (because it uses AutoHotKey for detecting elements in a window) is Windows only, because AutoHotKey is Windows only. And no, it cannot be rewritten in AutoKey, it cannot be rewritten in Python (it probably can, but the project is so massive that it would be a near-impossible task, and there is neither enough supply of people willing to do it, nor enough demand from users), it cannot run under AutoHotKey in the same WINE prefix OR in a different WINE prefix as the game (I tried both, Window detection doesn’t work), I have tried everything and nothing seems to work. In terms of less efficient macros, there are 3 projects listed on the official “[Insert game here] Macro Community” Discord server under the Python-macros channel: 1 of them is supposed to be a macro working for both Windows and Linux, but it has been abandoned (I even contacted the developer), the 2nd one is MacOS only, with the Dev stating “retina display” as the reason behind it. Still , I tried it and couldn’t get it to work. The third one was a project that started some time ago, but then there is now a message by the dev stating “I’m now pausing the development of this macro” so I contacted them a few weeks ago to see if I can get their incomplete source code to use as inspiration when writing my own macro, no response. And yes, I tried writing my own macro, and failed miserably. It is far more difficult than I thought.

    So yeah. I’m dualbooting a debloated Windows 10 (thank you CTT and winutil) alongside Linux. And Windows is, in fact, the secondary OS i.e I installed Windows after Linux.

  • prorester
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    122 years ago

    And you uploaded it to peertube. Good lad! Thanks for the video

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    There’s something really wrong with your GPU usage in Windows. It’s hovering around 88%. I don’t think this is an accurate comparison. You need to figure out what’s wrong with your Windows install.

  • Chewy
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    1092 years ago

    This proves that AC Oddysey runs faster on Linux than on Windows with your specific hardware. What this doesn’t mean is that “Linux gaming is faster and smoother than Windows gaming”.

    Counter examples are Overwatch, CS:2, GTA V and many more.

    Nobody reasonable doubts that Linux can perform as good or better than Windows, but claiming that this is true for all games is simply misinformation.

    Wrong general claims like these lead to posts asking why their specific games run worse on Linux since they switched because they want more fps.

    Don’t get me started on older GPU’s like 1000 series Nvidia that have problems with any vkd3d games so the performance is abysmal.

    Why is it not enough that almost all games work on Linux with ±15% performance difference?

  • visnudeva
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    112 years ago

    I have been enjoying gaming on Linux for many years, I am glad you’re sharing that for the windoze users.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    How’s the state of Nvidia’s drivers? Do the shiny new features work? Things like RT, frame gen, ray reconstruction, and randomly crashing the game because the driver has tripped TDR yet again?

    Okay, Linux doesn’t need the last one.

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      42 years ago

      The 545 Beta drivers apparently support a ton of new features on Linux like VRR. Frame Gen is the only thing not supported by Proton yet I think.

      Tbh though, if you’re on Nvidia I would stay on Windows. It’s definitey doable to use Linux and get equal performance. Until Nvidia is ready for Wayland though I wouldn’t switch.

      Good news is NVK is a new Open Source Nvidia Vulkan driver so in like a year or two things should be as good as on AMD. The driver already loads most games with DXVK 1.5.1 but runs them at like 1 FPS if they have anything like Valheim Graphics and above. Reclocking should be coming soon though so the situation will improve. After that it’s just working to get all features in and optimize.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        To be honest, given the virtually undiagnosable driver crashes that plague some people I wouldn’t recommend Windows users to go with Nvidia, either.

        But it’s good to know that a new OSS driver is being worked on.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Haven’t watched the video yet but I’d like to add from my very limited experience. I recently switched to Kubuntu (still have my windows boot) and the one game I play (Red Dead Redemption 2) seems to be running worse. I haven’t done much testing at all so it could be something I can adjust and get running better.

    Having said that, general day-to-day performance is miles ahead of my Windows install.

    If I could get RDR2 to run better on Linux and DaVinci Resolve to run I’d have no need to keep my Windows install.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Technically they do but it isn’t supported on all distros. They officially support centOS 8, RHEL and one other that I’m forgetting.

    • Reverse ModuleOP
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      52 years ago

      Have you tried something like Nobara? I’m pretty sure DaVinci Resolve works on Fedora (which Nobara is based on) and you will get the latest optimizations as well. I am on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed just cause best performance on my system.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Nobara comes with DaVinci Resolve out of the box (or in the post install configuration screen at least).

        That said I saw problems on Nobara I don’t have in arch that made me almost switch back to windows.

        Decided to try arch before I switch back to windows, long story short have been on linux for two months without any plans of going back, the idea of windows now makes me wince.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          I might try running arch as well. I’ll test it out before I move to a bare metal install.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Archinstall is perfectly fine, or EndeavourOS, they will make installing easy, i only use pacman and AUR for packages, anything not there Ive managed to build myself. This is the main reason I love arch, pacman + AUR are amazing.

            You will probably want an AUR helper like yay or paru (doesn’t really matter which one for you, i prefer yay for sounding fun).

            And of course RTFM - archwiki is amazing.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    I just have to comment here about the “like getting a new GPU”, because do people really upgrade that frequently? I generally see a much bigger jump in performance when upgrading.

  • @[email protected]
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    132 years ago

    I want to switch to Linux and I would love to game on it daily, but just like so many people, software incompatibility is holding me onto Windows.

    In my case, it’s Parsec that I need, because I game a lot with friends who live in other countries. And unfortunately, Steam’s remote play together feature is very broken on Linux (I remember even filing bug reports about it when I was daily driving Linux two-ish years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Ditto.

      Longtime windows and Linux user, my last several machines have all been dual-boot.

      I’ve tried multiple times to get gaming to work right with Linux, whether it be Unbuntu or just plain Debian, but something always gets in the way. Graphical issues, sound issues, controller incompatibility, platform incompatibility, unable to launch game, whatever. I give up and just stick with windows and use Linux for other things.

    • ahriboy
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      12 years ago

      Only one HoYoverse game made fully compatible with Proton-GE

  • NekuSoul
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    422 years ago

    I’m sorry, but if you see a 25% difference in a benchmark, that means your methodology is somehow flawed. A few percentage in either direction would be believable, but this difference would be so comical if true, that extra wariness is needed.

    There’s a few thing that look a bit off to me, but most importantly it seems like your OBS settings are wildly different between systems. It’s a bit hard to make out, but it seems like you’re doing CPU-based encoding on Linux and GPU-based encoding on Windows.

    • AlphaOmega
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      142 years ago

      It was a easy 25% plus gain for me. Apex legends win 10 :1080 upscaled to 1440 AVG 93 FPS

      Vs Apex Legends PopOS 1440 AVG 121 FPS

      That’s a lot better than 25% when you factor in the resolution difference.

      But yeah, windows is a massive resource hog

    • Reverse ModuleOP
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      172 years ago

      I am not doing CPU Encoding on any system but there is a difference indeed.

      Linux is Gstreamer VAAPI H265 and Windows GPU Encoding H264. In fact, Windows should have had an easier time encoding, I didn’t realize that until now. Also asI have commented on the video the game is on a 980 Pro on Windows and on an HDD on Linux so Linux can be much faster. I will rectify that by getting an SSD to put all my games on in the future.

      Beyond that, the methodology is not flawed, if you can even believe that. Everything is on the video for comments exactly like this one.

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        I see. As I said, it was a bit hard to make out in the video.

        In fact, Windows should have had an easier time encoding

        Granted, I don’t know too much about AMD’s video encoding solutions, but from a cursory glance on the internet, it seems like their H.264 solution is quite bad compared to H.265. Given that the game is GPU-bottlenecked and your CPU isn’t stressed at all anyway, I’d recommend recording these tests using the CPU to eliminate more variables.

        Beyond that, the methodology is not flawed, if you can even believe that.

        Well, yeah. As much as I’d like to believe, these differences are way too big for me to do that, even with everything you’ve shown in the video. Occam’s Razor would suggest that it’s much more likely that the benchmark/setup is simply flawed in some way, rather than multiple teams of OS-, hardware-, and game developers not realizing a gigantic 25% performance improvement on the table that’s somehow more or less “accidentally” fixed just by using Linux/Proton/DXVK.

        Not saying you’re wrong, but it’d need a good chunk more evidence for me to believe that.

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          32 years ago

          More videos like this will be coming. I can’t send you my PC to check its innards to believe, sorry.

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            I just edited my comment right as you posted, so I’ll put it as a separate comment now:

            It would also be interesting to see this game running through DXVK on Windows. That way the calls made to the GPU should be virtually identical, eliminating possible problems with DX11 in the AMD driver.

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    Can’t we just stop trying to be “a better Windows”? Just leave the poor fella alone – he already killed himself anyways. :^)

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    Obligatory I play exclusively on linux.

    In the absence of a gamersnexus video or phoronix article, I’m going to take this with a large grain of salt. Especially when a video like this one is showing much higher performance in windows. The different cpu shouldn’t account for much of a difference when playing at higher resolutions and the benchmarks shows the game being gpu limited.