I will not ignore the cat pic, in fact I enjoyed it, tyvm.

ignore cat pic

Does the cat use Arch, BTW?

In many games it does, but I'm not sure this comparison is a good example of that, as it shows persistent CPU stutter on Linux. With those spikes, Windows would be the smoother experience even if the average frametimes are slightly better on Linux.

Didn't valve test this sort of thing over a decade ago and found Linux to easily get better performance?

I will not ignore the cat.

Ignores the post, read the cat

I will ignore everything but the cat. I demand more pics of the cat.

Irrelevant cat picture to get people to read the post works every time.

I feel like people don't believe me when I tell them this is the case. Always glad to see evidence.

Appreciate the cat image.

ITT: OP learns why reviewers take days to provide benchmarks for games. If you don't come with receipts, it's death by a thousand buts.

I will not ignore

Doesn't seem to happen going by the graphs included, but one thing I look in benchmarks is not how fast or not a program was, but how frequent spikes and hiccups in speed are. Having played games at 11 FPS but that were consistent at that and seemingly weren't lagging (variable max fps?), big numbers don't tell much imo.

Also, statistically, one single benchmark, and from an unamed game at that, doesn't tell much either. If I might suggest, maybe do like the microblogging folks and start a responses/quoting thread of more tests?

Really needed that cat pick today. Also always cool to see Linux kicking butt

Impressive.

Very nice.

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Now... lets see Paul Allens cat.

I shan’t ignore the cat!

Ignore the cat pic? Why did you add it?

Nice cat.

"Ignore the cat pic"
How???

Cool cool. Now if only linux worked on my PC. Tried like 6 distros and each had their own issues preventing me from playing games.

I'm not exactly playing anything new but I've been playing Grounded (the first one) on Window for like 2 months. My computer was so hot it was warming up my entire room.

I switched to Linux due to other Microsoft issues and decided to give it another shot. Man, my computer doesn't really get warm at all. Like yeah I can see the temp monitor change a little bit but not much. There's no hot air pouring out of my PC. I'm not sweating sitting next to it.

I've made no changes to any game settings (other than using proton) or hardware changes. It's an insane difference.

Sometimes, you can get similar benefits on Windows running DXVK.

Some older DX9/OpenGL games like it in particular.

Oh wow, wonder why that is! Microslop is only here to slowly but surely make your computer a slave to their system, Linux along with pretty much all FOSS are here to keep your computer yours (some exceptions sadly exist)