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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've had people tell me that they experience better performance running games on Linux through Proton compared to running them natively on Windows. A while back, I decided to try Windows for the first time since 2002 on actual hardware. With TF2, I encountered significantly more crashes & lag compared to running it on my Arch install....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I can echo this. My games do have better performance running on pop_os rather than Windows.

[–] abraxas 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This seems to be the Windows/Linux yinyang in gaming.

If you go through the effort (or non-effort. It really seems to be luck-based) of getting a gaming rig working in linux, 99% of the time it is simply better at everything, crashes less, etc. The 1% can require hours or more of troubleshooting.

Windows runs slower and worse than linux, and arguably less stable. But you boot up, click play, and (largely) it just plays.

That's also my recent experience with Ubuntu on a gaming laptop. Every single step of the way gives me trouble, but when I manage to run something in the linux side, boy does it run well. So I've got this nice "todo" since I already blew my only free day on it last weekend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A friend of a friend tried daily driving Ubuntu recently & had a few problems (some of which were gaming related). They eventually switched to Linux Mint and pretty much most of their problems seemed to disappear....

[–] abraxas 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I wish I could bring myself to like mint. I've typecast myself as an ubuntu-head ever since I went full "Elder Price" with the CDs back at my first dev gig.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I've never used mint myself, but I've heard good things about it. Last time I used Ubuntu on actual hardware was around 2008 I think. For the most part I've been using either Arch, Debian or Fedora....

[–] Gallardo994 3 points 7 months ago

It usually goes like this:

in certain games, with certain (usually low-medium) settings, without raytracing, with proprietary drivers if nvidia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you're getting crashes and lag on TF2, that's your pc. Do you have to hand crank it or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I have to wait for the vacuum tubes to warm up when i turn it on

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

See I only got lag & crashes on windows, when on my Arch install I had/have no problems whatsoever. I haven't used windows since 2002 & don't really plan on doing so any time soon, the install was just to quickly see what windows 10 was like compared to Linux....