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On Linux native vulkan games actually beat windows with nvdia gpu (ignore the cat pic, pictures comparison in body of the post) (lemmy.ca)
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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Didn't valve test this sort of thing over a decade ago and found Linux to easily get better performance?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes.

Kind of.

Its... why they spent that decade making Proton, and now basically have an OS based off of it.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The OS is based off of Arch.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean literally yes, but, it could not exist in any meaningful way without Proton.

Thats why I say its really built around Proton, they started with Proton and then said 'how do we make an OS that will work with/around this' and landed on Arch.

The whole point of it is: Be a functional, efficient, fast, Linux OS that primarily plays video games.

Thats impossible without Proton.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Agreed! 🎯

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

http://web.archive.org/web/20200504112412/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

with the caveat that that was opengl vs directx9 accross operating systems and not necessarily "easy". but it did make an important point that linux could run workloads like games in a very viable fashion.