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

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400 points _JamesA_ | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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lenerdenator ◴[26 Jun 25 02:15 UTC] No.44383647[source]▶
When SteamOS and Ganoo/L00nockz become first-class gaming citizens, that's when I'm building a gaming PC for the first time since 2012.

I'm a Mac guy now mainly because of my job and I like UNIX-y stuff now, but of course, gaming is even more lacking than Linux.

We're so close. Once AAA releases and GPU drivers get there, it's over the cliff, and I could see that being in the next five years.

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1. cheald ◴[26 Jun 25 14:57 UTC] No.44388086[source]▶
We've been there since the release of the Steam deck. Really, the only things I can't run on my Linux machine are the games that intentionally break the game with anticheat mechanisms. And it's not all anticheat - there are plenty of titles with anticheat that run just fine.

Check whatever you want to play at https://www.protondb.com/ - chances are, if it isn't intentionally borked with anticheat, it runs just fine. Looking at the top 300 games by Steam player count, 17 don't work, and probably 5 of those are utilities (like Crosshair X and Lossless Scaling).