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Are there any things in which windows is still better than linux?
HDR and HiDPI screen support, color management, running old applications, drivers for lots of hardware and peripherals, availability of commercial software.
Mine was an expert at letting me know I still haven't signed in to one drive. was...
Installing rootkits on your computer i.e. kernel-level anti-cheat
UEFI installs on cutting edge hardware are sometimes slightly smoother?
Its getting better at breaking
ABI stability?
Market share
It's bad test.
Watch the video the tdp, clock speeds for cpu and gpu are much higher on Linux which accounts for the differences
Sounds like another metric to show Linux is running better
Because its using more power and has a higher tdp?
That's apples and oranges. At the same power limits they have same performance. With higher power limit ofc you'll have higher performance.
Did you watch the video? The very first comparison has Linux with higher FPS at the exact same wattage.
Yes I watched the whole thing. Did you?
1-2 fps isn't faster when it's not identical scenes.
Windows was faster by 1 fps in hogwarts legacy at 13w 😆. Does that make windows better? No. It's margin of error.
It’s the first test bed for every developer, which means something like a headset utility is more reliably going to work on Windows. But it’s impressive even that margin is falling.
Imagine seeing Nvidia drop Shadowplay features to push their own beta app improvements, while the Linux imitator for Shadowplay still works simply and fine, and doesn’t even drop for “DRM detected” issues.
Or trying to install/update Epic/Ubisoft games needing to go through another terrible UI upgrade while Heroic and Lutris still look the same.
A year ago, I tried Linux and felt frustrated about some minor UI inconsistencies and fiddling. Recently, I tried again, and it still had stuff to work through, but I was patient for it because now I’m dealing with all that same shit on Windows.
Oh yeah, though to hotkey audio switching I ended up writing my own bash script which was clunky. Curious if anyone better than myself might take charge there.