Rest in Peace Windows? Large YouTube channel tests gaming performance on Linux

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Is Linux an alternative for gamers?

The end of Windows 10 support along with artificially introduced system requirements for Windows 11 have put millions of Windows 10 users -- Dell says 500 million -- between a rock and a hard place.

Keep on using Windows 10 and an, often, perfectly fine device? Bypass the system requirements to upgrade to Windows 11? Buy a new PC? Or, switch to Linux? These are the four main options that users have.

For gamers, one of the most important questions are whether their games will run on Linux and how good they will run. Valve has done a tremendous job in the past couple of years to improve gaming on Linux, but is it enough, even on systems that do not use SteamOS?

That is what Steve Burke of the YouTube channel Gamer Nexus set out to test. The operators of the channel wanted to find out if Linux is still the rather complicated system that is not well suited for gaming, or if gamers can make the switch and be very happy with that decision.

The main details:

• The games: Seven games were tested, including Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil 4, Black Myth Wukong, and Resident Evil 4.
  
• The Linux system: Powered by Bazzite Linux on systems with Nvidia RTX 5070, 5080 and 5090 video cards, as well as Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT video cards.
  

Bazzite is a Fedora-based distribution that is branded as a distribution for gamers specifically.

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