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On Linux native vulkan games actually beat windows with nvdia gpu (ignore the cat pic, pictures comparison in body of the post) (lemmy.ca)
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[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

http://web.archive.org/web/20200504112412/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

with the caveat that that was opengl vs directx9 accross operating systems and not necessarily "easy". but it did make an important point that linux could run workloads like games in a very viable fashion.