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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Valve may be single handily driving better Linux adoption rates with Steam deck.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/linux-surpasses-the-mac-among-steam-gamers/

And performance on Linux is outpacing Windows

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/uZGK12oU5FeSsy8CDLP4hD

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

17℅ advantage? Daaamn hope these aren't anomalies, because like 2 years ago Wine performance only lagged behind like 5℅, and this sounds too good to be true for me.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I believe the biggest factor is Linux's better resource management.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You somehow used the care/of symbol (℅) instead of percent (%). Impressive!

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 1 points 1 year ago

Its a combination of Vulkan and Valve paying devs to work on Proton.

Vulkan is a fantastic Graphics API. Vulkan is more optimized than DirectX, and it's so much better than DirectX that the DXVK (DirectX to Vulkan) Wrapper that Proton implements makes games run better, despite the fact it's running through an obfuscation.