You can complain about click bait all day, that's fine, but you came in here misinterpreting the article and then posted a non-relevant link to support your argument, followed by another back-pedaling comment to say "frame rates don't matter as long as it's over 30fps" LMAO.

I think you're arguing just to argue, seems a little more childish than anything I said honestly.

You definetly do notice the fluctuating fps if it's more than 10 fps at these frame rates. It feels like it's speeding up then slowing down over and over. That's why you should just lock your fps to something the device can maintain.

games never crash on windows? lmfao

You will notice “average” 30 FPS plenty when it fluctuates. If it STAYS above 30FPS the whole time then sure but if 30 is the average that shit is struggling and you’ll be getting like 20-40 FPS

They raised the GamePass price didn't they? It's been lackluster lately

I think that, as long as the framerate doesn't dip below 30, a regular human won't notice fluctuating FPS.

This is complete bullshit, 30 fps is playable for most games, and I have in the past bumper graphics until fps dip to 30/45 because depending on the game 30 fps on high is a better experience than 60 on low for me. But to say that a regular human won't notice it is bullshit. There's a game I play on my deck, for some reason it's very sensitive to disk usage, so if I'm downloading stuff it dips to 30, and I always have to go and stop the download, because if you've been playing at 60, 30 feels very sluggish.

it has a xbox service that installs from the windows store, it is hella finnicky, ive had to do a full pc restore in the past to get it to work, no other option online helped

New games pushing technology features will always lag slightly before they make it to Proton. It's the nature of reverse engineering. On Kubuntu, on AMD, the only crashes I can name are for The Alters, which I knew from Proton DB ahead of time to expect some chop.

The gaming experience on Windows is to get interrupted by updates constantly, less gracefully handle sleep and resume, and sometimes lose control over the game window when popups come up such that you need to be rescued by a keyboard or the touch screen. Those aren't just my experiences but also captured in the reviews for this very device. What you gain is compatibility with live service games with invasive anti-cheat and Game Pass. For some people that will be enough, but this isn't even the first handheld gaming device to show a performance delta in Linux's favor when tested. I don't think many people are experiencing this stability problem you are, as it doesn't reflect in many reviews, and a two year old forum post for a game running on technology that moves this fast doesn't mean that it's still happening.

but a game may not necessarily need 13W, thats the point. youre using up more power than what is necessary because the CPU governor doesn't know if its necessary or not to actually use all 13W.

The steam deck is controlled the same way(has wattage targets), but it understands when its being underused, to use even less resources to maximize battery life.

If you have a car that has gears, where gear 1 is 25, gear 2 is 50 (old cars), it doesn't mean there aren't usecases where you want to go 5/10. its unnecessary to always have to hit said target.