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Being able to use anything other than Windows without any significant loss in performance is a pretty fucking big advantage.
I expected hardware to perform similar independent of OS. Then again I only use Linux for productive tasks.
Then why are you complaining about not getting a Gamers Nexus video that benchmarks game performance spelled out to you when it isn't even relevant to your use case?
It touches on an interesting topic. Gaming on Linux. I only explained what my performance expectations would be since they outlined theirs and mine contrast starkly.
Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn't work "right" in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can't directly compare "120 fps" on their specific linux setup with "120 fps" on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.