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ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS
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My source is just an example of gaming experience on Linux.
I run Garuda (Arch-based) which is a distro "for gamers". The experience is great, I love it. Everything works fine... most of the time.
But, until Proton got a couple of updates, I was just unable to run Mafia. Until Proton got a couple of updates, Hogwart's would crash randomly. Right now Cyberpunk runs fine... until it crashes during loading sometimes.
That's the gaming experience of Linux.
All that for a +6.6 FPS average, and no GamePass.
Windows Store is irrelevant, you lose the XBox (App)-installed GamePass games, which means that you lose access to a tonne of XBox games.
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.
*gets updates literally on the same day every month with 14 days time before a forced update*
*complains about getting interrupted by constant updates*
Sigh... I'm not even going to comment on this. Can't fix fundamentalism.
Because, overall, Windows 11 is badly optimised and MS already fired all the competent developers, so, yeah, it's going to happen. But what Windows gives you, is the guarantee that if you have the hardware to handle a game, it will run. Any issues will be on the side of the game, not the OS.
That's also part of the "Linux gaming experience" - with all the distros flying around, almost nobody will have the same exact experience. Sure, if everyone installs Bazzite on the Ally, it should be a relatively uniform experience, but - again - I fail to see the point in going through all this, losing the (apparently) excellent touch UI and a unified gaming library, just to get... 6 FPS extra. In one power mode.