Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks

Soooo when did Arch become a gaming focused OS?

Is arch really gaming focused though?

I recently switched to ubuntu in a gaming laptop, right now I've been using it just for jellyfin and some other coding tasks, but it definitely runs smoother, more stable, quicker, and cooler than windows did for the same workload.
I was surprised at the difference of even just having the machine idle, on windows it was noticeable warm, now on ubuntu it's almost as if it has been turned off.

Assuming this is the usual case where most games are within noise of each other, the ones that don't run under linux are excluded, and nobody acknowledges that the need to precache/predownload shaders provides short term benefits.

Its like people miss the good old days of "This is the year of linux gaming. Everything works and is perfect. Okay, those games don't work. But every game I care about works. Except the ones that don't". Like, we really are in a golden age of gaming parity but pretending there isn't still work to be done serves no benefit.

Computerbase is very solid and well known in Germany and have been covering Linux quite a bit for a while now.
Performance of course can fluctuate heavily between games but the amount of progress that Linux made over the past decade is nothing but astonishing.

Description is false. Windows won in R&C. This was not an across the board win for Linux. Good news doesn't need to be sensationalized.

These tech YouTubers should do Linux comparisons. These are not small differences when comparing, let's say, Nvidia 4060 and the RX 7600. It could make the AMD GPU edge out the more expensive Nvidia offering

Ok, but what about Nvidia GPUs? Those are what the the vast majority of gamers use.

I've been using arch and manjaro for the past 3 years with awesomewm and gnome (can't get awesomewm to behave with second monitor while gaming so I switch to gnome when using the second monitor, using laptop) and this has pretty much been my experience. Windows is bloated and it never"just works".

Anyone tried crysis?

I'm not familiar with the games mentioned in the article, but Linux is great for gaming. I run Manjaro on my T540p laptop and have never had problems with Angband or Nethack. I can even run DF with tilesets if I'm feeling spunky. Mind you, I do have 8 gbs of RAM and a pretty sweet Intel integrated graphics setup, so that may be why it's so smooth.

Hasn’t this been happening for years?

Intel’s clear Linux had similar articles published about it years ago.

slim margin isn't significant enough.

I want bigger margins.

I switched to Mint this month and have only run into issues with anti-cheat. I've tried about 8 different games. Halo Infinite had some odd textures the first time I ran it, but not since.

All in all I'm very happy with my OS switch.

Doesn't matter. Easy of use + compatibility trumps all.

When first switching to Linux I tried Pop!_os and it was awful was a headache to get anything to work .. switched to Ubuntu and all my problems went away , I don't recommend using pop .

What does "gaming focused" even mean? In what way is it focused on gaming?

Been using Nobara for the last 2 years. Haven't noticed much of a dip in performance coming from Windows, if anything.

Linux, is not for gaming. Period.