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The main thing I like is that video performance is good on Linux. I can run multiple games and multiple movies at once, on multiple displays, and everything run
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
The main thing I like is that video performance is good on Linux. I can run multiple games and multiple movies at once, on multiple displays, and everything runs butter smooth.
I've spend a dozen hours over the years trying to get even a basic game and video to play smoothly on Windows. Tried different video players, tried all manners of output plugins and settings, tried boosting priorities and assigning cores, tried so much. It never works well. Even low bitrate small video stutters and lags badly, and 1080p video is unwatchably far behind all too often. Horrific disaster.
I have multiple monitors and Linux lets me actually enjoy them. Thanks Linux.
Also I booted up my desktop recent to Windows & power consumption was ~160 watts. I have done some tuning admittedly, but on Linux I can be ~102W sitting on desktop (although something went wrong a couple months ago & I can't get my gpu's mclk to go down haha, still, 120w). Thanks Linux for saving me a ton of power.
- Aerroon 3y agoI've had this kind of windows performance too. It stopped with a newer GPU at the time. Before I got a new GPU the only solution I found was too turn off hardware acceleration on the video player.
- abhinavk 3y agoAre you running your DE/WM on X11 or Wayland?
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoWayland, using wlroots-based Sway.