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Well, the Steam Deck is meant as a dedicated gaming PC, and explicitly supports replacing the OS, so Windows performance is eminently relevant. Also, every sin
by pdpi 4y ago
Well, the Steam Deck is meant as a dedicated gaming PC, and explicitly supports replacing the OS, so Windows performance is eminently relevant.
Also, every single reference to Windows is in the context of testing whether the performance issues they're seeing are OS or hardware related, which is exactly the sort of analysis work I'd like to see more of.
- steponlego 4y agoIt’s explicitly a Linux gaming PC. Do you see people benchmarking BeOS on their Surface?
- pdpi 4y agoNo, I don't see people benchmarking BeOS on a Surface. Then again, I've never heard anybody say "well, if this whole Windows thing doesn't work out, I'll install Be on my Surface". At any rate, this article isn't about the Steam Deck's performance, it's about Van Gogh specifically, and how it relates to other pieces of Zen 2 hardware. Testing with both Linux and Windows is useful. There's a comment elsewhere in this discussion by a Valve engineer saying that one of the issues the author saw is due to an ACPI handling issue in Linux. That's the sort of thing you catch by testing with multiple OSes.