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This is interesting because theres not a ton of direct Windows vs. linux game benchmarking, and now there's about to be. GN churns though a lot of hardware and testing.
And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
Arch (with KDE I presume?) + Bazzite is not bad either. There's a lot of handwaving over they should have chosen this or that distro, but they're both very popular in the gaming space, so I feel that's fairly representative of many distros.
This is the most important part of this whole thing to me. Imagine Nvidia watching Steve shitting on them for having horrible drivers on Linux and millions of people seeing that.
My game randomly freezes like once an hour on linux. Thanks, Nvidia!
Idk what wm/de you're using, but disabling gpu acceleration in steam fixed this for me in hyprland
I'm not even running steam, I'm launching directly from wine
Damn that's hardcore, gonna go ahead and assume you've already exhausted all troubleshooting options then xD
The log screams at me about the Nvidia driver and page flipping and stuff and I doubt I can do much at this point