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Steam Deck

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Source is this video:

Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Valve doubling down on Linux as the default OS on the Steam Deck was such a great decision. It obviously has given them a massive competitive edge. Windows has become so horribly bloated, and Microsoft has almost zero interest in making it run more efficiently.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Personally I feel what it gave them - primarily - was the ability to be independent of Microsoft, not beholden to them in any way whatsoever, and not having to pay them any license fees.

The fact that after putting so much work into making Proton and that whole toolchain amazing it actually turned out faster than Windows, well, that's juat the delicious icing on the cake, from a commercial perspective.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

Hmm, it's like having spyware constantly run in the background slows down the computer?

[–] Chill_Dan@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Goes to show how much bloat is in Windows that it kills hardware like this.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I need Cortana, Microsoft Excel, and OneDrive while I play Doom Eternal. You don't know me.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago

Me looking up from my speed-running Excel sheets: "what"

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Thibking bout that time a discord admin told me windows and linux use the same amount of resources and she knows cause she works in it.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Well yeah duh windows and Linux use the same resources. I don't put more memory in my computer when I boot into Linux...

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Valve won. Maybe it's lucky timing, or maybe Gabe is actually a genius, but it's only going to get worse for Windows as there is no way in hell Microsoft shifts resources from AI projects to make Windows better for PC gaming. Recently, Capcom announced that their PC gaming sales surpassed their console sales, and I don't think it's likely we'll see that trend changing, and it's also likely other publishers will make similar announcements soon (although idk if they count SteamOS as a console). The Switch 2 is coming out soon, but people already say it's too expensive, and there are controversies surrounding some of their product decisions.

Will this bring about the era of the Linux desktop? Idk, but the era of the Linux gaming PC is inevitable now.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Will Steam do for the gaming PC what porn did for the internet?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

i expected a small performance hit.

this is actually very impressive considering it runs through a compatibility layer.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's interesting. But the second graph is designed to confuse.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Why is it confusing? Maybe I’m confused, not sure.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

The Legion Go is on top and on the bottom, with the Deck in between. And the color scheme isn't helping.

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