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Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)

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

@Llewellyn
File system operations are often faster. This is in part due to Windows doing more; it has a more complex and more flexible permissions system.

Spawning threads and processes is also normally faster. Linux apps thinks nothing of spawning lots of processes with abandon, then have them opening and closing files all over the place. If you move it straight over to a Windows machine it will tend to run very badly as a result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In addition to the differences in permissions and kernel behavior you've pointed out, there's also a huge difference in the filesystems themselves.

Windows' default filesystem is NTFS. Linux's is EXT4.

EXT4 is significantly more modern (2008 vs 2001) and featureful (no fragmentation, handles small files much better, journaling, etc) than NTFS.