Dankpods used 12 computers with different hardware to test the performance of 5 games in 1080p and 4K, comparing the average fps results of the games’ built in benchmarks to determine which OS ran the game better across the same hardware: Windows or Bazzite.
Some notes on methodolgy under this spoiler
Each game uses the same in game graphics settings in Windows and in Linux. The Linux distro used was Bazzite, using the version specific for the graphics card hardware fpr each individual machine. To be clear, this means that he installed the Bazzite version for (legacy) nVidia as appropriate.
Each bazzite install was fresh, no copying installs or swapping around a drive with it pre-installed. After install, it was updated using system update and rebooted, repeated until no updates remained.
Screenshots of some of Dankpods’s comments to this effect:
There are many comments under the youtube video pointing out that in many of the Linux runs, it was not actually using the correct driver, comments about the experience using other distros, and comments about various potential fixes and workarounds.
This misses the point. Dankpods intentionally tested this way, and used Bazzite, to try and show what this would be like for the average gamer schmuck without a ton of technical skill interested in switching to Linux. Out of box experience matters in this situation, even though it’s not quite fair to compare that between free opens source distros and an OS created by a megacorp. To the average end user, it won’t matter. They just want it to work.
Prepare to be upset. With this particular testing methodology, Linux doesn’t really win overall.
I’m interested to hear the community’s thoughts on this.
The testing methodology is BAD, though. This is Youtuber science at its worst.
I understand the point of drawing attention to the OOBE and agree it’s valid, but that’s the kind of discussion best reserved for an article (or sure, video) specifically on the topic. This is an hour long video of collated bad data. It’s worthless, who wants to watch that unless you’re simply looking for validation or ragebait =/
You said the methodology was bad, twice, bit you didn’t even bother explaining why.
From the post itself and when I specifically referenced the OOBE in my own post. You need to read and make certain connections yourself, I can’t connect every point for every one.
While there is a point to be made about the performance directly out of box, this assumes that the user would not eventually seek to resolve the issues to improve performance. While there is a valid point to be made on the overall experience and the difficulty of correcting these issues, comparing the performance between sets of correct and incorrect drivers does not provide valuable data. It just underlines the OOBE point over and over again, I don’t need to watch an hour long video for that point to be made.
Clear enough?
If you’d respond to that comment it would have made a lot more sense. What if the sorting of the comments put that post at the bottom and yours at the top? You can’t just assume people would connect the dots when you respond to the wrong thing.