While I love good news for Linux gaming, this article is IMO a litre too positive. In the last part, notebookcheck picks the games that Linux distros were best in and presents a biased picture.
But the general message is positive: When games run under Linux, the performance is probably equal or better than with Windows. (And Windows has compatibility problems too).
Yap, ProtonDB give us a good picture, mostly games still have minor issues. But, I like this kind of thing because show potential. If gamedev do they homework, the Linux experience could be better performance.
You are right, these experiments really show that Linux is suitable for gaming, just some games aren’t running on Linux.
I guess none of the tests included game compatibility 😆
I joke, I love seeing linux getting these Ws over windows and things like this really do help people consider Linux as a choice
i mean, the compatibility is true though. i would love to switch to Linux on my gaming machine, but i don’t wanna jump through the hoops.
What hoops? Unless the game has rootkit like Antichrist they work pretty great already. Checkout protondb to see the compatibility of steam games.
It’s more complicated than that, for instance i use software that processes telemetry data from my racing simulators that control my tactile transducers. there’s a million situations just like that if you do anything more than basic games on a basic screen.
What about surround for triple monitors? There’s just so many little things that become a pain in the ass the moment you switch to Linux when it comes to gaming outside of the most basic, straight forward instances.
and that software isn’t available for Linux? Sucks to be vendor locked in here. (Also moving the goal post)
What about triple monitors? Plug and play and you are golden?
