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

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445 points _JamesA_ | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.392s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[25 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44382924[source]▶
The last missing piece for full Linux gaming is anticheat. Last I looked into it, the major vendors don’t want to support it due to lack of kernel security and the ones that do, game devs refuse to allow it (destiny for example)

One we can play AAA games I am literally ditching windows forever. Steamos is the best thing that has happened to gaming

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ryukoposting ◴[26 Jun 25 05:18 UTC] No.44384377[source]▶
Don't forget the ancillary applications that gamers want. If you follow Discord's website, you're gonna end up installing a DEB file manually. Then, every couple weeks, Discord won't launch until you go download another DEB file and install that. Oh, and good luck getting Discord screen sharing working on Wayland. I tried for hours, gave up, and switched to X11. So, just in Discord, we've already run into two hideous workflows that no Windows native is going to take in stride.
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1. Ferret7446 ◴[27 Jun 25 09:58 UTC] No.44395431[source]▶
...why? Discord is available via flatpak.

It Just Works.

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2. twosdai ◴[27 Jun 25 21:52 UTC] No.44400576[source]▶
Made the mistake the poster above did with discord did for years.

The package system is very important to learn in Linux. People have 12 ways to install an app, and they are far from equal.

3. ryukoposting ◴[27 Jun 25 23:11 UTC] No.44401129[source]▶
Tell Discord that!

Think about it from the POV of a Windows user, especially one who has never used Linux before, and especially one who doesn't know what HN is. To install a program, the first thing you're going to do is type "discord" into your browser, and go to their website. Discord's website doesn't suggest that there's a better option. It just gives you a DEB file.