I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • Mio@feddit.nu
    1·
    1 year ago

    Surely Microsoft knows this.I guess that is why they have gaming mode.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh they do, but I don’t know what the real reason it stays that way. The only things I could come up with is that they simply don’t care, backwards compatibility (that one doesn’t really make sense to me), or finally that they can’t come up with a better version due to the mathematically good ones already exist in Unix and Linux systems under the GPL.

      I’ll be honest, I can’t see that last reason stopping them, but who knows.

      This article really shows the differences:

      https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/POV-ray-on-Quad-Xeon-and-Opteron-579/

      It’s a bit old now, but the point still stands. I’m sure the schedulers across all systems have improved since, but it’s a fact the Unix/Linux systems are still better and more efficient.