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Linux is now FASTER than Windows!! Linux vs Windows - 2025 Gaming benchmarks (m.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For games with no native client and run through proton: 4% faster at 1080p, 3% faster at 1440p, and 0.8% at 4k average

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How many games did he test? It seems some games work better in Proton than others, based on past testing I've looked at.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

19 or 20

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

According to this comment higher up, 19 games were tested on an RX 6800 and every game was faster on Linux except for the Witcher 3 and cs2