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Windows Was The Problem All Along - Dave2D

We could obviously compare performance between windows and steamOS before on the steam deck, or between windows and Bazzite on other handhelds. But this is the first time we have had official windows and SteamOS builds for the same hardware.

  • Goretantath@lemm.eeEnglish
    215·
    1 month ago

    Now what about windows 10 ltsc iot, the ONLY version of windows worth comparing to linux.

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      191·
      1 month ago

      IMHO you shouldn’t have to run a stripped down Windows to get good results. It should just work that way out of the box. LTSC is not supposed to be a consumer OS.

      • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Shouldn’t have to, absolutely, but its done anyway, so I think its can be relevant.

        Until that last little bit of stuff I have to use windows for becomes linux native or at least doesn’t have a tutorial to make it work that makes my eyes cross, its just easier for me to use my stripped down windows install because it just works.

      • Gerudo@lemm.ee
        21·
        1 month ago

        I think it’s a valid comparison request due to some things just flat out not being compatible with Linux.

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 month ago

          Pretty much everything will run on Linux now. It’s just the companies behind the games being dumbasses and blocking it with their anti-cheat.

          • Gerudo@lemm.ee
            31·
            1 month ago

            There is plenty of software that doesn’t, and plenty of games that don’t run on Linux, even beyond anticheat games. If it wasn’t true, we wouldn’t need protondb telling us what is and isn’t. You can advocate for Linux all day, but you have to admit there is still software that is 100% Windows only.

            • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 month ago

              I was specifically referring to games as a subset of software in general. Generally, I haven’t run into a game that doesn’t “just work” on Linux unless the developer has non-working anti cheat. Are there any major games you’ve tried that that wasn’t the case?

              As for all software, we still have work to do there.

      • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        1 month ago

        You can argue that steamOS is a stripped down version of Arch

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          8·
          1 month ago

          Arch is a stripped down version of Arch.

          Linux isn’t monolithic like Windows, so it can be purpose built for anything.

          Windows LTSC is designed for things like kiosks, ATMs, etc that have a long service life. It’s not made for gaming. It doesn’t even include things like DirectX by default, IIRC. You have to add it.

        • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          31·
          1 month ago

          But it comes with consumer devices. Preinstalled, just like Windows does in whatever version they compares here.

          • Honytawk@feddit.nl
            11·
            1 month ago

            So? That still doesn’t change the fact that SteamOS is a stripped down version of Linux that can’t do everything a Linux computer can do.

            So the comparison is flawed.

            It is like comparing a Swiss army knife to a regular knife. The regular knife is going to be better at cutting, but it won’t do any of the other things a Swiss army knife can do