Just a hunch, but it's not performance why peeps are migrating away from windows

lol. They’re not going to reduce the bloat in their OS.

Lol it's true

It's wild that they recognized that software compiled for their own operating system goes faster through an interpreter on a different operating system

An abstraction layer that reverse-engineers the Windows GPU and kernel syscalls and runs on a completely different operating system does better than the native platform after a decade or so of volunteer labor, and a few years of a couple paid devs.

How embarassed would you be if this happened to something you spent 40 years building?

Linux gaming went from good luck to Windows is taking notes. That’s a pretty wild timeline.

link to article https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-windows-k2-everything-you-need-to-know-saving-windows-11

Some games have better performance running under wine on Linux than natively on Windows.

Woo competition doing its thing!

I dont even check if a game will work anymore on Linux, it always does. Last one was Planet Crafter which was a really good game. The entire planet is changing as you terraform it which is very fun to see.

No please, continue shooting yourself in the foot.

People begged for performance debloating for more than a decade but you're only interested now because Proton outperforms Windows.

I would be asking for a multi million dollar salary as an NT kernel engineer to undo all the crappary intentionally introduced in every update ever since Windows 8.

Native Windows CS2 dust2 benchmark gives me 120fps over the native Bazzite Linux (fedora 43) CS2 - 180fps. Running proton CS2 gives me 100fps.

Wish more games had native Linux ports.

Microsoft is doing this ONLY because they finally recognized that Linux surpassed them flying on the one thing they were king: games

Microsoft doesn't give a single shit about end users, never had. It always had the goal of becoming the dominant ayer, then get a monopoly, and then doing absolutely nothing anymore until users complain too much. This has been their work ethos since it's inception and if you believe otherwise I have a bridge to sell you.

Nah they'll just do anti-competive shit to make Steam worse.

And only because of portable devices like the steam deck. If the software scene was exactly the same but these devices didn't exist, I don't think they would be doing this. They wouldn't care windows is heavier if it was about standard gaming computers only.

wait, MS cares about their product? then why is it so... gestures vaguely at the OS

Perhaps they are talking handhelds, specifically?

Look. I am the biggest, most shameless CachyOS fanboy you will find. It’s like 90% of my desktop time, has been for years.

But I’ve benchmarked a few games on Windows and Linux, Proton and native, sparsely, and Windows still has an advantage, sometimes. Cyberpunk 2077 was the biggest outlier for Proton (eg faster on Windows, enough to visibly affect settings I can manage on my 3090).

And many native ports are still truly awful. Often where performance equates to simulation time, like modded Stellaris or Rimworld.

Mind you, that’s not always the case. Proton is faster in many games, and (for example) anything Java like Minecraft or Starsector are just hilariously faster on Linux.

The caveats:

• My Windows 11 is neutered to hell. It’s a barren wasteland. Even Defender is disabled.

• I’m running Nvidia.

• Some of my testing is aging now.

Still, I am a Linux shill, and think the headline is a bit dramatic. Stripped Windows is still faster in plenty of realistic scenarios.

Since they’re referencing SteamOS, they’re probably talking about stock mobile systems, where the overhead from that mountain of background junk in Windows is much more painful.

What if they find out that people went to CachyOS for even more performance?

Oof. They are about to inject a bunch of vibe code into the only part that functions well.