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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Didn't valve test this sort of thing over a decade ago and found Linux to easily get better performance?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

Yes.

Kind of.

Its... why they spent that decade making Proton, and now basically have an OS based off of it.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.