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Cyber dopamine's test needs to be retested for this to be true. I love gaming on Linux and also regularly use my steam deck yada yada yada but come on.
Yeah, but how are M$ supposed to mine your data and push AI shit onto you?
To be fair, Linux would perform so poorly too, if it had 194 data extraction programs running in the background. This comparison is clearly unfair.
Tbf if Linux was running at the same tdp it would be the same speed, as shown by 13w tests
The 17w is actually 16w vs 20w+ and 35w is 25w vs 35w+.
So the article is very wrong and misleading. Watch the actual video and post attention to the power draw and clock speeds.
Are you able to remove the 194 data extraction programs that are running in the background as user?
Copilot probably won't let you
I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can't do that.
Probably because it doesn't have to run all the bloatware and spyware.
Hilarious
And delicious
That's XBOX ALLY X, the more powerful version.
Also, I need to look way more into this as 32% sounds cherry picked as fuck.
Edit: yeah, this didn't take much to find out. It's due to a bug not apples to apples comparison. Still calls it Ally and not Ally X and SO MANY FUCKERS HERE FELL FOR THIS, JESUS F CHRIST.
You should be embarrassed, all of you. Hundreds of upvotes "oh yeah, figures!" with ZERO and I mean ZERO critical thinking. You read what you want to read and take it as facts.
So sure, if you run one device at 21 TDP and the other at 17, one will do better!
The increase in framerate varies from game to game. Hogwarts Legacy and Kingdom Come Deliverance run better on Linux.
Did you read a different article than this one or something? What you’re saying makes no sense.
Nah he actually watched the source video so knows that the test wasn't valid apples to apples
shocked
I'd be really interested to see how it runs the IoT edition instead of mainline Windows
Out of the box the ROG Ally runs Xbox FSE which is a stripped down Windows optimized for gaming, so the comparison isn't with the mainline. I didn't find a comparison with Xbox FSE and Windows IoT though.
FSE = Fucking Shite Edition
I'm inclined to believe IoT would still have a partial advantage because of it being devoid of any unnecessary components - FSE still includes their "Gaming AI" and the Microsoft Store because it's for home users rather than enterprise customers.
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