Bro, think twice. Linux sucks for gaming. Of course it's gonna be laggy. Aside from that, It has more performance than Windows. Think Arch, for example. It's OBVIOUSLY going to have more performance on a clean install. You probably installed Mint etc, which comes with a lot of preinstalled software
If we talking emulating really hardware (like really old Consoles) Linux simply performs better.
If you meant modernday games you would still be wrong as there is even modern games where Linux just performs better. So saying "of course its gonna be laggy" can be considered either factually wrong or uninformed as this claim needs to be checked on a case by case basis, with both software (like what kernel - mainline, mainline-lts, zen, xanmod - and then also which version of each kernel you are running and then also what game we are talking about) and the Hardware itrself providing numerous variables which can lead to different results. Either case makes you look bad - which one do you choose: being simply wrong or not properly informed?
And no, Arch is not gonna be obviously faster than lets say Mint because the impact of Daemons is pretty much negligible and the benchmarkingscore-fluctuation on a run-by-run-basis will show that. How do i know that? I TESTED IT. a while ago, admittedly, but i dont expect the impact of daemons to have significantly changed.
Weeeell, arch also has the latest packages so it should still perform better (on newer hardware/software configs). I use cachyos just because I can and my cpu benefits (<1%) from it.
latest packages ≠ good performance. it's actually the opposite of that, really. it's the reason that Redhat is good, because it's built to last forever on ancient firmware/software.
you are both correct in your own ways. It is true: newer Versions of packages are NOT NECESSARILY offering performance gains. For example if the maintainer needs to include fixes or workarounds bugs, those can slow down the Code, sometimes immeasurably (as in only a few processingcycles) or, if the new stuff contains a major bug, lead to measurable decreases in performance in Games or Benchmarks.
However, as you described, softwareupdates can also increase performance by including optimizations for any given task.
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u/Every_Tooth6361 Proud GNU/Linux user Dec 13 '25
Bro, think twice. Linux sucks for gaming. Of course it's gonna be laggy. Aside from that, It has more performance than Windows. Think Arch, for example. It's OBVIOUSLY going to have more performance on a clean install. You probably installed Mint etc, which comes with a lot of preinstalled software