Because regular users aren’t going to be changing drivers based on the game, or doing a ton of system-level configuration to get a bit better performance.
So it should be defaults vs defaults.
If we want to compare OSes, we should do targeted benchmarks (Phoronix does a ton of those). There are far more interesting ways to compare schedulers than running games, and the same is true for disk performance, GPU overhead, etc.
you can actually use DXVK on Windows
How many people actually do that though? I’m guessing not many.
“Windows vs Linux” is comparing the default experiences on both systems, and that’s interesting for people who are unlikely to change the defaults (i.e. most people).
The only time you’ll see a game perform better on a GPU on Linux is when the game has a native version
That’s just not true, as evidenced by this video. If you take the typical setup on Windows vs the typical setup on Linux, it seems you get a 17% average performance uplift on Linux on these games.
That doesn’t mean Linux is 17% faster than Windows, nor does it mean you should expect games to run 17% better on Linux, it just means Linux is competitive and sometimes faster with the default configuration. And that’s interesting.
Because regular users aren’t going to be changing drivers based on the game, or doing a ton of system-level configuration to get a bit better performance.
So it should be defaults vs defaults.
If we want to compare OSes, we should do targeted benchmarks (Phoronix does a ton of those). There are far more interesting ways to compare schedulers than running games, and the same is true for disk performance, GPU overhead, etc.
How many people actually do that though? I’m guessing not many.
“Windows vs Linux” is comparing the default experiences on both systems, and that’s interesting for people who are unlikely to change the defaults (i.e. most people).
That’s just not true, as evidenced by this video. If you take the typical setup on Windows vs the typical setup on Linux, it seems you get a 17% average performance uplift on Linux on these games.
That doesn’t mean Linux is 17% faster than Windows, nor does it mean you should expect games to run 17% better on Linux, it just means Linux is competitive and sometimes faster with the default configuration. And that’s interesting.