Ubuntu 24.04? If you were to try to pick the worst, still supported distro for gaming that might be it. Maybe RHEL could be worse? If they chose it for stability like they claim they did they should have also used an LTSC version of Windows and the Pro drivers to compare to.

The writing of this article was not the quality I would have preferred. The infotainment angle really makes it feel like their data can't be trusted. With that being said,

"as long as you have a distro with an up to date kernel and the latest Mesa drivers your out of box experience won’t vary much at all."

This is actually a greater challenge for the average user than they think it is. Its also why the universal Blue project exists. Using the OCI container model for the OS, they can easily upgrade and customize the kernel, drivers, and even upgrade to entire new versions of Fedora without batting an eye. This is the main reason I've switched over to Bazzite. The pain of updating is gone. Also, most images have the "-nvidia" version which alleviates the headaches of maintaining your Nvidia drivers.

Rant: If anything, this article shows that the nuances of the FOSS ecosystem is lost on them because they're afraid of strange elitists imaginary neck beard criticizing them? I understand this is for comedic effect but it feels sophomoric and hacky; like they've missed the point. I would ask them to follow Jorge Castro a bit and understand the work he's doing is specifically to make Linux for everyone else.

TBH they will be the last publication to come around to it. As Microsoft leaves us all no real choice in the matter, the future of the PC hobbyist is Linux, weather they like it or not so they need to stop complaining and start contributing.

::insert "money please" meme::

Thumbnails like this are the worst.

Seeing them take off in popularity has degraded my hope for humanity a little more.

Go away, LTT is infamous for sloppy testing.

I think the results look pretty solid for Linux. Some games seemed to run much better on Windows but most seemed pretty comparable. Considering many of these games were not built targeting Proton it's not surprising that some stuff might not be optimized.

I first got into Linux in 2014 when gaming on Linux was very limited. The fact that I can run most of my Steam library on Linux these days still blows my mind. It doesn't bother me much if windows still gets a couple more FPS.

If you are benchmarking between Windows and Linux dont use Ubuntu with the gnome desktop, it's fucking aweful, use Kubuntu with KDE Plasma 6.4 instead running a wayland session, it's so much more performant and even gives my games a boost.

the benchmarks seemed pretty rough

Do they? I think they looked pretty good except for when raytracing was turned on.

The fake shocked-face thumbnail trend is so tiresome.

I remember seeing a lot of benchmarkers stating that Linux offered better and consistent frame times compared to Windows which caused for a smoother gameplay. I wish to see that metric in their testing.

I was actually considering getting an Intel GPU since my current one broke, didn't knew the sitation was still this bad.

Forget Linux vs Windows, the real question I have is why is Black Myth Wukong so poorly optimized that on a 4060 or 5060 it can't reach 60 FPS at 1080p even on Windows? Freaking unacceptable.

You would think coming from the mobile world, Game Science would be used to low-spec hardware, e.g. phones, but this game can't run well even on pretty new GPUs on PCs??? I had no idea this game had such abysmal performance. I wish people hadn't bought it, so it could've flopped

Lets talk linux gaming optimization. For them its probably best to take a distro like cachyOS out the box. The game should run inside gamescope with the desktop environment killed Feral gamemode enabled. Minimal services running in the background. I dont think they should go full HPC engineer (although that would be sick) but linux is all about taking full control of your software and hardware and pushing whats possible.

Not bad. I take issue with the part of the article called "distro wars". There is no war, but I dont expect them to "get it". These cringelords seem to have a need to meme-fi everything, really dings the tone of the reviews. Am I reading a tech review or an opinion article?

Eeh