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Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite

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i didnt see it posted and this this might be the best sub for it

is it of interest to people?

Linux GPU testing
wih lots of disclaimer
and lots of numbers might be of interest to some.

edity didnt see a bentchmarking hread or anyhting.
and these tests wont be frequent
 
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Grim5 said:
RIP Nvidia performance in Linux
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There's a reason why way back Linus said "**** you, Nvidia" and gave them the finger, it's been their own decision.

Granted this has changed (mainly due to the big boys wanting to run Nvidia kit for A.I.) lately. But Nvidia gaming performance is still playing catch up, and the open source drivers are way behind in performance in comparison to those available for AMD & Intel.
 
The bigger issue holding back Linux gaming is the implementation of modern anti cheat software (seen in games like Rust and Battlefield 6) and it's relationship with the OS rather then GPU drivers. If more people switched over to Linux you would find Nvidia putting in more effort into it's Linux support.
 
Freddie1980 said:
The bigger issue holding back Linux gaming is the implementation of modern anti cheat software (seen in games like Rust and Battlefield 6) and it's relationship with the OS rather then GPU drivers. If more people switched over to Linux you would find Nvidia putting in more effort into it's Linux support.
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Yeah that's the main thing holding me back. I'll still probably make the switch before October but I'll have to keep a dual boot or VM of W11 just for any games that don't get on with Linux (for mainly DRM or Anticheat reasons, as far as I've read so far)
 
I don't think the problems were with Linux, it was more to do with their testing environment, and in typical GN style he went on about it about 3 times as long he needed...
 
john_smith said:
The longest section appears to be the problems they had. Life's too short to be messing about with Linux.
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I've recently installed Bazzite on my living room PC, the version that just loads straight into Steam Big Picture mode.

Zero problems and zero messing about with Linux required (so far). It just works.

Its a system with an AMD 9060xt 16gb which seems to be better supported than nvidia though I've never personally tested that.
 
I tried Bazzite the other day, when I saw the amount of faff involved in just setting a custom fan curve on my GPU and changed some global settings, I promptly uninstalled it. No matter what people say this is never going to get adopted by a mainstream audience, and that's fine.
And that was before I wanted to do any of the other things I can achieve within seconds on Windows.

So my conclusion was everything I want to do is going to take longer. Most of the games I want to play require some kind of tweak, and life's too short to be ******* about having to Google how to do things I can do with a GUI on windows. Zero benefit for me. Oh and God forbid I want to play any game with kernel level anti cheat.
 
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To be fair mainstream audiences don't go around doing custom fan curves, they just want to install and go. It also doesn't make you sign your life away with a Windows account nor constantly screenshots your desktop with recall plus all the Windows spyware.

As for kernel level anti cheat, that's a disaster waiting to happen. I won't let a game that uses that near my machines.
 
Noxia said:
I tried Bazzite the other day, when I saw the amount of faff involved in just setting a custom fan curve on my GPU and changed some global settings, I promptly uninstalled it. No matter what people say this is never going to get adopted by a mainstream audience, and that's fine.
And that was before I wanted to do any of the other things I can achieve within seconds on Windows.
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A pity, Bazzite supports installing LACT which gives you a nice GUI for fan curves and over/undervolting features and is plug and play.

Kernel level anticheat you're right about though, the fact MS still allows it gives me a little laugh with all the focus on security in other areas of the OS.
 
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Marak said:
To be fair mainstream audiences don't go around doing custom fan curves, they just want to install and go. It also doesn't make you sign your life away with a Windows account nor constantly screenshots your desktop with recall plus all the Windows spyware.

As for kernel level anti cheat, that's a disaster waiting to happen. I won't let a game that uses that near my machines.
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I'm not using a Windows account, and I only use my PC for gaming so I could not care less about these so-called issues.
People can nitpick Windows all they want. I don't have any particular love for Microsoft but at the end of the day it's convenient and that will always win even if someone decides to screenshot my desktop couldn't care less, also, I'd love to see when this is allegedly happening because I've seen no evidence of it.

The amount of hysteria over something you can disable is laughable honestly.

Why I'd want to have a worse experience and do gaming with even more extra added steps I have no idea. Unless I want to turn into that really boring bloke in the office who tells everyone how much they hate Microsoft.
People can protest all they want, the usage figures speak for themselves and this hasn't changed in the nearly 30 years I've been pc gaming.
 
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Maybe my experience helps some. When Windows 10 got announced for EOL, I decided to dabble abit around June 2025 with different distros, primarily gaming focused. I liked CachyOS the most.

One thing that some will get stuck with because I did: Multiple drives. Took me way too long to figure out how to properly mount drives and then create a symbolic link. It took about 4 days of reading and testing to get a system I would say was somewhat fine i.e. learning to install printer drivers properly etc.

I mainly play Overwatch 2 and on day 5 I think I made the switch. So long MS I thought! It's going perfectly and then suddenly... insane lag that doesn't go away. Looked up more and it's a general wide problem that even 5 months later still exists: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11446 and links to the lag timebomb that I experienced :https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/4436

It got to a point I was inputting custom commands for games like LD_PRELOAD="" %COMMAND% and other stuff I had no idea about. It was then I thought to myself "what's the point?". The day after I downloaded Windows 10 LTSC with Rufus to allow a local Windows account and have not looked back since. It's a good middle ground between not totally submitting to MS and still having convenience.

Don't get me wrong I love what people are trying to do with Linux and gaming and if anyone can make it mainstream, Steam can. I might retry again in a year after the Steam Machine gets traction and more bugs ironed out.
 
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