I didn't know you could beat windows, I thought it was a weird open world game.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Windows is a strange game. It seems the only winning move is not to play.
Much like another game, that we just lost.
At some point in the future I'll come find you and remind you of what you took from me.
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The evil of Microsoft is too great to resist. The only way to win is to deny it battle. And something about candles and cooking.
SteamOS massively beats Windows
Linux massively beats Windows
History has been made.
Dave’s got a lot of mileage out of that video. Famous overnight essentially! Seeing this type of article everywhere
Gasoline massively beats molasses in cars.
This quick video from The Phawx seems to show that the battery performance difference isn't actually inherent to Windows, but rather that the GPU drivers don't throttle down the TDP when they should.
Windows has plenty of other issues but it seems any frustration about this specifically should be pointed at AMD.
Amd makes the drivers for both Linux and Windows brotha.... So Microsoft wasn't able to fix something the open source community in collab with amd could?...
I don't know the business negotiations of all that. But if you watch the video, Phawx basically uses one single command to lower the wattage on his Windows handheld and instantly triple the expected battery life. The underlying OS clearly supports it. Seems to me like the AMD driver just isn't detecting that the game has light power needs and so isn't throttling like it should.
As someone who does understand the business negotiations and software implementations, you have some of the issue correctly diagnosed but you're placing the responsibility on the wrong person lol.
Ok, glad to be wrong there and more than happy to blame Windows then. I ditched it completely a couple years ago and I've been enjoying Linux gaming ever since.
Can we install this on PC yet? Sick of windows and all I do in my desktop is gaming via steam
Well, you can install any Linux distro and play there. For example Nobara, which is gaming focused.
I'm hoping they make a desktop version but I've been testing Linux mint on all the games I can download and I'm pretty sure it's running better than my win10 boot.
So the fact that the other distros are an option that's relatively accessible makes me think there's less value to valve releasing the desktop version any time soon.
You.... can just install the steam client on just about any Linux distro?
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