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Windows 11 vs Linux on 8GB RAM – Who Wins? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[+] -25 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Ostensibly, the one with less overhead. Part of the dream of DirectX was a lite statement that could focus on gaming — that ultimately became Xbox. So look at an Xbox One (not Series!) and run Linux on similar hardware (no SSD!) and see if you can beat it. I think it can be done but I’m not sure.

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  • [–] 103 points 6 months ago* (11 children)

    You're right. Linux has always struggled to compete with hypothetical versions of Windows that aren't available. But you see, for testing purposes, we're forced to use the Windows version from this timeline.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I know there are gaming-centric distros but I wonder, if someone built a Linux that was essentially a console equivalent, useless for anything else, how it would fare.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    There is no fundamental performance difference between these "gaming" distros and any other ones. Some minor kernel tweak maybe net a few percentage points here and there, but the gaming stack is still the same across the board, and very little can be done to squeeze more performance there without each just getting performance improvements.

    Even still, you'd just install those same versions on any other distro and get those performance benefits.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    It would be just fine. You can look at SteamOS on the Deck for exactly that (and I would assume the upcoming Desktop version will be similar). Bazzite in handheld mode is similar.

    Much of the extra overhead comes from the desktop shell and window manager, so anything that swaps out stuff like Plasma or Gnome for something lighter is already on better footing.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I kinda wish the Xbox One didn't exist, too. I get what you're saying though, that stripped-down version of Windows isn't something you can get outside the console. Still, you not being able to use it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's still a fair thing to test against. Windows as a consumer grade OS isn't really meant for gaming. Xbox is Windows stripped down to what's needed for gaming. You can configure Linux to strip down for gaming, so why not compare apples to apples?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    My commenter on the internet, consumer-facing Windows is bloat city and will not grant the freedom to cut down the garbage holding performance back like Linux Distros do. If you have Win10/11 Enterprise LTSC and run a few debloat scripts maybe, but that's not something an ordinary person can gain access to without piracy, and it's unlikely that the "stripped down Windows version for gaming" becomes a product without either restrictions or a price premium to the general public.

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