It's been a little while since we did our first Linux video... so today we talk about the performance comparison between Linux and Windows with bonus footage...

tl;dw their performance numbers don’t match up to what we’ve seen in the past. Some pretty significant decreases in performance over Windows. I think there’s clearly some sort of configuration error there. They also ran into the old dual-boot problem where Windows overwrites the Linux partition.

In my opinion this is lazy and irresponsible reporting. I don’t at all mean to discount his experience, they are legitimate concerns, and it’s fine to show the struggles of using Linux, but it’s very clear he (admittedly) doesn’t know what he’s doing, and they need to consult an expert (or even a casual user) to figure out what the problem is before reporting. He said in the last video that Bazzite reached out to him to let them know if he has any problems so they could help but he obviously did not do that. As is, it just makes Linux/Bazzite look bad.

I hope he follows up with another video discussing the solutions.

What do you think?

  • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nvidia gpus are in a huge amount of PCs out there right now. many users are going to make the switch to linux not knowing about the closed source drivers. yes its obviously Nvidias fault but dont be so brazenly “WELL DUH” when most people arent going to buy a new GPU just to test out an different OS. or even think to buy from a particular company due to business practices that only affect people on linux.

    that being said im currently on a Nvidia GPU and for the most part Im having minimal issues. If @hobowillie needs some help I will gladly offer my limited knowledge but I understand if you’ve given up on Linux for the foreseeable future.

    • hobowillie@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      My issues are also fairly minimal. I do have crashes and stutters I did not have before switching to Linux, but they have been manageable and (mostly) isolated events.

      I had issues with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide the most but the issues seem to have mostly subsided and I don’t play that game all that much, anyhow. It was the one I had to really knock back settings and turn things off that were on by default to make it work reliably.

      I had the most trouble with Dune: Awakening but that is a Funcom game and people were reporting similar issues on Windows to what I was having. But notably, my friend with the exact same hardware was not experiencing those issues. But we synced our settings and seem to have similar performance now that Funcom has released a handful of patches and hotfixes for the game.

      I do have issues where, when powering on my computer, it will have one of my 2 monitors (usually the primary one) just flashing red, green, and blue in order on the screen until I restart it. Sometimes the screen comes up completely distorted. But my other monitor is fine and I just restart the computer and it’s fine. If you have any ideas for that, I’d love to hear them. It happens maybe 1 in 10 start ups and only really inconveniences me for like 30s but it’d be nice to know why it’s doing that. It seems to happen more right after driver updates.