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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever" (www.neowin.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

But this time Linux actually plays video games right out of the box. No trickery. Just install steam and the rest of the experience is smooth as butter

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    And sometimes with better performance than windows because of less of a system overhead.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn't have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.

    it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Difference in GPU?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    yes and not the way you're probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

    it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn't that far apart in age-wise.

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