Microsoft’s approach to their OS seems to be, “constantly add more stuff that relatively few people want or need, and require everyone to buy new hardware to support it.” The resulting upgrade cycle is needlessly wasteful of people’s money and harmful to the environment.

Meanwhile, the Linux ecosystem is more like, “make new stuff available, but optional, and constantly optimize things to be more efficient.”

I was still gaming and developing software on a ten-year-old computer (with a somewhat newer GPU) until very recently. I’ll let you guess which OS I was using.

https://xcancel.com/atari/status/1874833151580618839

Debian gamer here. Glad y’all are having fun, too.

The same place you would draw it between a square and a quadrilateral.

“Oxygen.”

LTT’s analysis is often haphazard, poorly informed, or both. Predictably, that leads to a high rate of bad conclusions. Linus Sebastian in particular seems to put sensationalism above all else, and he overestimates his understanding of computer systems. I would not recommend his advice to anyone.

I can’t speak for other people, though. Maybe someone else will chime in with other reasons.

I don’t watch much of this kind of content (I prefer text) but from what I have seen, Gamers Nexus is a superior channel.

Troubleshooting software is a deep rabbit hole. Troubleshooting modern games, made for a complex operating system like Windows and running on another operating system, is a very deep rabbit hole.

However, since you’re just launching games through Steam, you probably won’t have to go very deep. This would be a pretty good place to start:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton?tab=readme-ov-file#readme

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki

Note especially the FAQ

Wine is not a hardware emulator.

However, its very purpose is to emulate the Windows runtime environment. Translating API calls is only part of that. Also, the project abandoned that silly backronym years ago.

So kindly leave people alone when they refer to it emulating, or as an emulator, or something that emulates. They’re not wrong.

One of the appealing things about the Steam Deck is its repairability. Valve even made the analog sticks modular, published a teardown video, and partnered with iFixit to make replacement parts available, IIRC.

It would be hard to convince me that a device that doesn’t beat the Deck in this area is “today’s best”. It’s important.

My experience has been that all CPUs work better for gaming on Linux than on Windows, because Windows is surprisingly wasteful of system resources, including CPU time.

Of course, there are still a few games that don’t work well on Linux, no matter what CPU you have. If those are important to you, then the question of which is faster might not matter.

Sadly, they didn’t include this graph for people who played exclusively on Linux, unless some of it was on the Steam Deck.

Thanks for this. Are you planning to take more measurements during a warm season? It would be interesting to see how close the electric system comes to petrol in more favourable conditions/climates.