{"id":239076,"date":"2026-05-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-installed-a-linux-gaming-distro-and-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows-on-the-same-pc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:05:15","slug":"i-installed-a-linux-gaming-distro-and-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows-on-the-same-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-installed-a-linux-gaming-distro-and-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows-on-the-same-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"I installed a Linux gaming distro and got better frame rates than Windows on the same PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-linux-gaming-distro-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows\/\">I installed a Linux gaming distro and got better frame rates than Windows on the same PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-linux-gaming-distro-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-linux-gaming-distro-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, someone declares it&#8217;s finally the year of the Linux desktop, and every year, the internet moves on without much changing. But something feels different lately.<\/p>\n<p>More people are ditching Windows on their daily machines for gaming, and the hardware support has gotten to a point where it&#8217;s hard to find a real excuse not to try it. For gaming specifically, I think we&#8217;re already there.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI made the switch to Steam OS on my ROG Ally X and haven\u2019t looked back<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Being reunited with SteamOS has never felt better, especially on the ROG Ally X<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-actual-numbers-on-the-same-hardware\">\n                        The actual numbers, on the same hardware<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"more-is-better\">\n            More is better<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/installed-linux-gaming-distro-got-better-frame-rates-than-windows\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed a Linux gaming distro and got better frame rates than Windows on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/12\/asus-rog-ally-running-cachyos.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-239076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239078,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239076\/revisions\/239078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}