[HN Gopher] Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Wi...
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Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in
gaming benchmark
Author : Ardms78
Score : 48 points
Date : 2023-12-03 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| 1. Why not link the original article[1] with the benchmarks and
| use your favorite way to translate?
|
| 2. Curious why they didn't use OG Ubuntu in the benchmarks. Yes
| Popos(I still don't agree on that name) is just another Ubuntu,
| but I would have proffered the OG snice that's the most popular
| worldwide and I don't know what Popos does to make it more
| "gaming focused" than vanilla Ubuntu.
|
| For another popular Ubuntu alternative they could have also went
| with Linux Mint. AFAIK both are still default on X11 while latest
| Ubuntu defaults to Wayland so that could have made a difference.
|
| [1] https://www.computerbase.de/2023-12/welche-linux-
| distributio...
| smoldesu wrote:
| > I don't know what Popos does to make it more "gaming focused"
| than vanilla Ubuntu.
|
| They have a few changes, chief among them being the PopOS
| scheduler which I find to be quite effective:
| https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler
|
| The desktop itself is a weird custom-baked x11/GNOME
| customization you won't really get on Ubuntu. Not many
| distributions can claim the title of being truly "unique", but
| PopOS _does_ deserve the title in my opinion. Even still it
| wouldn 't be my choice for gaming, but I'll defend it's
| identity as something more than another GNOME/Debian spin.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| _> Not many distributions can claim the title of being truly
| "unique"_
|
| Sir, I think you've just insulted like dozens of distros out
| there.
|
| IMHO there are a lot of more "truly unique" distros out there
| than just spins of Ubuntu with a different DE and scheduler:
| Nobara(from the benchmark), Q4OS, Antix, Mabox, Linux Lite,
| Gecko Linux, Spiral Linux, in no particular order, not that
| they're better than Popos, but they're definitely more
| unique.
| smoldesu wrote:
| Probably so. Relative to PopOS, not many of them are quite
| as pre-customized (not that it's an inherently good or bad
| thing).
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Depends. Personally I don't consider Popos's DE to be a
| feature but more of a bug. I think the two competing
| giants, KDE and Gnome, are more solid and see more dev
| time and effort put into them, and will do just fine to
| satisfy all users, preferences and use cases, I don't see
| the need for the Nth+1 DE that fixes problems Gnome & KDE
| don't have. But that's just my opinion.
| jwells89 wrote:
| I think the thing that makes popOS relevant to gaming is how
| system76 offers a variant with proprietary Nvidia drivers baked
| in and properly configured to not break with updates.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| That's a good point.
| brnt wrote:
| That's precisely what Ubuntu (and Debian) offer with the
| nvidia driver from their repos, isn't it?
| ianai wrote:
| Pop_OS! Arch, and Nobara
| kiwijamo wrote:
| I find it interesting that Arch is considered a gaming-focus
| Linux distro. Is that really the case? From my experience, I've
| see Arch as a general-purpose bleeding-edge distro.
| Hamuko wrote:
| Steam Deck runs Arch.
| charcircuit wrote:
| No, it runs SteamOS. Else Pop_OS! is Ubuntu and Nobara is
| Fedora.
| calamari4065 wrote:
| >Pop_OS! is Ubuntu and Nobara is Fedora.
|
| Correct.
| calamari4065 wrote:
| Both of my main computers are over a decade old. 3rd gen i5,
| and my laptop runs an Nvidia NVS5400m. Absolutely prehistoric
| hardware.
|
| Arch is the only distro I've tried that just works out of the
| box. It's the only distro where Optimus/Prime/Bumblebee
| actually works and doesn't just run the GPU at full bore all
| the time.
|
| All of my games work as well as you could hope with this
| hardware, with no configuration or tinkering up front.
|
| Arch has been the absolute most stable and fast OS I have
| ever used, bar none. My current installation is the longest
| I've ever gone without reinstalling the OS, including
| windows. It's definitely not the most ergonomic OS, but it
| just works, and it works every time.
|
| Specifically, I use the Garuda flavor. It's advertised as
| being specifically for games, but I don't know what's special
| about it other than the garish "gamer" RGB default desktop
| theme. I'm gonna try Cinnamon next.
| charcircuit wrote:
| >had a substantially larger 17 fps gap
|
| A gap of FPS has no meaning. FPS have to be compared with
| percentage difference. If you want to measure a gap in absolute
| terms you need to convert the measurements to milliseconds per
| frame.
| qayxc wrote:
| The original source features a frametime-based rating as well.
| Surprise, surprise, Windows 11 and Arch are both identical in
| terms of performance, while Pop!OS and Nobara are about 9%
| behind.
| 0xDEADFED5 wrote:
| they really doubled down on that Vavle typo, haha
| silisili wrote:
| Six times they misspelled Valve, once even in the subtitle.
| Once I could see as poor editing, but this seems egregious.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Or the editor mistakenly added "Vavel" to their
| autocorrect/spell-checker as the correct spelling, and hit
| 'Publish' without proof reading thoroughly.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| "Add to dictionary" shouldn't be taken lightly.
| jzb wrote:
| "Arch is the most 'Linux-like' of the three"
|
| Say what? Not sure how the other two are any less "Linux-like"
| than Arch. They're all Linux, which is about as Linux-like as it
| gets.
| zamalek wrote:
| This should get even better with the new Wayland WINE stuff
| (freshly stable apparently, I haven't tried it yet).
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