ThefuzzyFurryComradeVast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop
The Velour Fog I’m one of them, and currently looking into Linux, if I can migrate my Photoshop tools/brushes/gradients/etc successfully over to another program that is compatible.
My only hang up after that is gaming, and I feel that can be resolved with dual boot to win10.
TalaraineGaming on Linux is superior, on a lot of games! I dual booted and ran benchmarks on Windows 11 and Fedora, same hardware. Ran nothing but the OS and Steam in the background, (gaming mode on and off), oddly found better performance with gaming mode off, then tried the same thing with Fedora. 5-10% higher framerates in Fedora running Proton.
Tried the same thing with synched Firefox tabs, half a dozen open tabs, telegram and discord running. Fedora sometimes hit 15% higher framerates.
Are you on an AMD card?
I have a Ryzen CPU with onboard graphics and then an Nvidia 3060ti mobile.
Rpmfusion drivers in Linux and Nvidia experience in Windows.
Interesting!
I used to get worse performance on my 3090, but it’s been awhile. I will have to try again.
Out of curiosity, what games do you see any gains in, and at approximately what settings?
And if I come across as skeptical, that’s not my intent at all. I’m just intrigued!
For me, the most noticeable gain was in Monster Hunter World, but it was what I ran the tests on. I also played a lot of Earth Defense Force 5 and Genshin Impact.
GI was always finnicky to get running. MHW did take longer to launch, and the new Monster Hunter Wild takes obnoxiously long to launch on first run after an update.
Very interesting!
MH is notorious for being unoptimized, right? Maybe DXVK and the sane linux scheduling is working wonders here.
I use DXVK in Windows, on rare occasions, and the gains can be pretty dramatic in (for instance) janky DX9 games or sim games that scale poorly.