Fubarberry

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.

There's also a lot of complaints about stuttering, and the game wouldn't launch at all for a lot of people when it first came out.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wine is a compatibility layer, it works as a translator to let windows programs run on linux. You can think of it like having a translator who allows two people with different languages to talk to each other and work together.

WinBoat is completely different, this is actually running full windows in the background, and then only displaying the apps you want from it. There will be significantly more system resources used, and you won't be able to run windows apps until the windows VM has started in the background, adding a startup delay. However the advantage is that it will support more software than wine does, with fewer issues.

Wine will always be the better option when it works, but for stuff that doesn't work this is a decent option.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately I haven't used it either, so I can't answer your questions on this. I don't have a personal need for any windows apps on my machines, outside of steam games.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

WinBoat or WinApps might work for you. They're very similar in function afaik, they both run a windows vm hidden in the background and integrate the windows apps alongside your Linux programs. It's supposed to be fully compatible with all windows program except kernel anti-cheat.

WinBoat is newer and I think offers a nicer interface and a lot easier setup, WinApps is older so may be easier to find support/documentation on. I'd probably recommend starting with WinBoat first.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

They were considering blocking Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine, which is almost all of Firefox 's revenue.

It kinda makes sense, chome being the dominant browser gives Google a search advantage, and the other alternatives (like safari and Firefox) both make deals with Google to have it be the default as well.

But removing those deals would be more disastrous for Firefox than for Google.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We avoided the worst outcome, they were considering killing Firefox to prevent a Google internet monopoly.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

With your theory, you could run a DirectX to Vulkan translation layer on Windows and also get increased performance. Which may be true, but once again points the finger at bad drivers.

Yes, from what I've been told that actually does improve performance in many games.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The compatibility layer is overhead, but the key difference for many games is that DXVK swaps directX for Vulkan, and Vulkan often gets better performance.

The performance gains of using steamOS are twofold, there's less OS load (this is particularly noticeable in low performance games, windows will consume much more battery on a game like Dead Cells than SteamOS will), and there's also a vulkan performance increase for some games. My understanding is if you see a big performance increase in a demanding game, that's usually thanks to vulkan.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago

These are both on the Lenovo Legion Go S. The significance here is that there's both official OEM windows and official OEM steamOS for this device.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can't get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 72 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Yeah you're right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My understanding is it's mostly just the advantage of not having windows running hogging resources, so it should be a bigger gain for CPU bound games.

**Edit ** There can be performance gains from using vulkan over DirectX too, so there probably are GPU gains as well. It will depend on the game though

 
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