alt Hacker NewsLTSC narrows it, sure. But 2025 benches prove Proton/Linux beats stock/debloated Win still. [0][1]
Handhelds crush: Bazzite/SteamOS +20-36% FPS on ROG Ally X/Legion Go. Cyberpunk 39FPS@20W Linux vs less Win; Returnal 33 vs 18. [2][3]
AMD desktop: CachyOS +15-80FPS (Cyberpunk/CS2) on RX5700XT vs Win11. Smoother 1% lows too. [2]
NVIDIA par/mixed, tweaks needed.
Vulkan+NTSync > DX overhead. 90% Steam games? Linux wins now.
Anti-cheat blocks the rest.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pxtcv3/rx_57...
[1]: https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/rip-windows-linux-gpu-gaming-be...
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...
[3]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Xbox-Ally-with-Bazzit...
I'd wonder about the performance impact of windows defender and the like.
I'd really wonder if one took a game that was on both xbox and linux. constructed a linux box to have basically as close to specs as on the xbox and then benchmarked the games against each othe, what would would see.
I'm not saying that linux is better than windows or that windows is better than linux, just that I think its very hard to make an apples to apples benchmark comparison and there are constant services on windows that run that one doesn't generally have running on a linux system that can cause problems.