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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

(arstechnica.com)
402 points _JamesA_ | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
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flaminHotSpeedo ◴[26 Jun 25 03:56 UTC] No.44384057[source]▶
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   Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11
That's not just a buried lede, this title is straight up wrong (or at least, not backed up by data)

With SteamOS coming to arbitrary hardware, that is a very bold claim to make. And not one that ars has data to back up, apparently.

It's also an embarrassment of an article because they were gifted the steam version of the handheld, then compared that performance against them installing windows... on the steam version of the handheld. Why not buy the version with Windows by default?

Personally I'm nearly certain that SteamOS would give better apples to apples performance than windows, but we shouldn't give an article that shits on both the scientific method and journalistic integrity the light of day

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1. hinkley ◴[26 Jun 25 05:28 UTC] No.44384427[source]▶
This story has been floating around for weeks already. I’ve seen two different videos talking about this already including one claiming Microsoft has already stated they are working on it. It’s not just that the games run faster but that battery life is also better. On a handheld system battery life will change minds more than frame rates.

Correction: it’s been a month and they had both devices:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q

And it’s $130 cheaper.