[baal80spam]

>Many games written for Windows run faster on linux now

Is this really true? I find it _really_ hard to believe.

[xethos]

As someone else reviewed the other day (in the 9590X review thread), Linux gets better worst-case performance, while Windows will likely have higher highs and lower lows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269996

[cma]

For things like getting into the game, look at windows defender CPU usage during startup...

At least most stuff puts everything in a single .pak file and uses sqlite databases to avoid most of the windows filesystem overheads I guess.

[BearOso]

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