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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews (youtu.be)

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Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

I remember back in the day, running Quake3 on linux provided better FPS than on windows. I haven't compared the two since then on any game.

Is it still the case? And is this difference (mostly) there in other games too?

[–] mesamunefire 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Quite a few games work better on Linux now than windows.

[–] lepinkainen 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

World of Warcraft was a big one, it was faster on wine than native windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

@lepinkainen @mesamunefire It was faster on Wine "back in the day" when it was THE game to play.

Though, it runs wonderfully on Apple Silicon, mostly because it's Apple Silicon native.

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