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For all the doubters that Linux gaming is smoother and faster. (video.hardlimit.com)
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A video for any doubters that Linux gaming is better than Windows in which it DESTROYS Windows by 25% in AC Odyssey. To put it in perspective, 25% improvement is like getting a new GPU. You can save $600 and instead use something like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for free.

DISCLAIMER: I don't really care to make Linux look better but I did a video some days ago and EVERYONE (on Reddit) told me Linux gaming CANNOT be faster or smoother. This is the proof it's both and more videos will be coming.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I would prefer Linux even if I lost 25% of the performance in games and that's like the main thing I use a computer for. Windows 10 was such a hassle to set up so it wouldn't annoy me that I don't ever want to do it again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Installing Windows 10 and then some graphics drivers was a hassle? Please elaborate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I guess its all the debloating

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are like 30 GPO setting needing to be set on a fresh install plus 3th party software to fix issues. I can't 100% remember what all of it was since I used Windows years ago last but these were some of the issues needing fixing with those:

  1. Setting updates to manual. Once it rebooted to update when I was hosting a server during a lan party, never again.

  2. Disabling driver updates via Windows update. It installed wrong drivers for my sound card so whenever it tried to play a sound I got a BSOD. It also unistalled the correct drivers just to install the wrong ones.

  3. Fixing the start menu search. After Windows 7 that search has been very buggy and it commonly finds a folder or a Web page instead of a locally installed application. In Windows 8 a software named Classic Shell fixed that issue along with making the start menu normal but I can't remember if I used that in Windows 10 or something else.

  4. Printer compadibility. May be reversed now but one update for Windows 10 broke old printer compadibility intentionally and you needed to add 2 registry settings for my printer to be usable.

  5. One bug windows 10 had that I never did fully solve was my ethernet connection would hang if I tried to transfer a lot of data over local network and the only way to get the connection back was rebooting so the only solution was to limit transfer speed via 3th party software. This issue did not exist in any Linux install or Windows 7 and 8.