Linux Gaming

19522 readers

645 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Gaming on Linux

Matrix:

Telegram:

Gaming on Linux

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

monolalia@lemmy.world

505

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

83 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 19 hours ago

I can definitely believe this on low power machines.

I got a N150 Mini PC the other week, and it comes with Win 11. It thrashed around at 100% CPU doing updates and virus checks and fuck knows what other background tasks Windows considers more essential than whatever I tell it to do. Case was red hot.

So I popped the latest Ubuntu on it. Is it perfect? No. I had to mess around with Firefox "snap" for ages and type arcane commands to make it find the N150's tiny GPU. And it still can't play videos using the hardware. But other than that, it just works, just the bare essentials, and then gets out the way. Sits at about 2% CPU use when idle.

MS seriously need to cut bloat.