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Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 147 points 6 months ago (21 children)

how shit of a software company do you have to be where your own os's software running through a translation layer on another operating system is threatening to run faster than natively on your os. somethings gotta snap.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It's less of a translation layer and more of a reimplementation. But yes, it does demonstrate how shitty Microsoft is that other people can implement its APIs better than it can.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    a reimplementation built from reverse engineering and documentation that lies, meanwhile microsoft are the ones who should know how it all works, but apparently not.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    it's not just the software that runs better, in many cases it's the hardware too.

    Take laptop batteries for example. users will state over and over how their batteries last a lot longer when their system is running linux as opposed to windows.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    It was then that microsoft found out that constant monitoring and stealing every little bit of information while flooding the users with ads and unwanted and unneeded AI is bad for batterylife. Who knew, except everybody?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Threatening to? When was the last time you used Windows? Maybe you've forgotten just how much of a slug it is for gaming. Hell, just opening Steam can be a five minute ordeal depending on what Microsoft wants you to do first.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Sounds like you're not running 32 ssd's in raid 0 😏

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    IN THIS ECONOMY?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    yeah switching to Linux is likely a lot less work if you factor in the price of the hardware you need to run games windows 11 smoothly at your current pay per hour(or salary/hours worked)...

    Unless you "need" to play a game that uses "kernel level anti cheat"... then you're SoL... 😞

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    If you count all the aggressive pop ups and prompts and notifications and other bullshit that you can't turn off any time you try to just use your own fucking computer... 10 minutes from power button to game launch. Linux? Less than 2.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    To be honest, Microsoft's software is running against an API that uses a translation layer to talk to an older API. Multiple layers of this happen before you get to hardware, mostly for compatibility with legacy software that uses the older APIs.

    Not to mention MS have rewritten their frontends for their apps several times and keep them each time.

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