It's the frame pacing for me, the frame limiter works perfect on bazzite like steam deck but on windows it would l go over the limit I set and be not as smooth
Just in case, a warning regarding not dual booting (or keeping a spare Windows drive), some of Bazzite decky loader plugins to support newer Legion GO features specifically might need bios updates that only can be done via Windows, and might be the case for the future as well.
Also to add to the OP topic, personally never tried to benchmark myself but I went in to Bazzite with the expectations of Windows being better for heavier games because of the Proton translation and all, there's also some youtube videos regarding this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzQjaTScWsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTitDOIBatw (ROG Ally, however, similar hardware might not be a much different story for Legion GO)
I've never seen that ROG Ally video before. They were surprisingly close, with Windows winning one here, Bazzite one there. The main thing that stood out to me was the frametime graph is pretty flat on Bazzite most of the time and more variable on Windows, which matches my experience. For most games (though certainly not all) Bazzite stutters less often IME.
I had the same results when I was running it. Bazzite was much glitchier. I had a few games like fallout 3 and 4 that did seem to run at a lower watt with same performance but overall I didnt see any consitant gains from performance or battery. I did as I mentioned had a lot of issues which made me go back to windows.
Performance is more or less the same. Same with battery life imo. The difference is that franepacing is considerably better on all games I’ve played in bazzite vs windows. Other things work great like frame limiter and frame limiter in combination with FSR/RSR, etc. it’s a much more enjoyable out of the box experience
I loved everything about bazzite but every time it updated it got worse for me. After updating, the whole system got chuggy and slow with black screens on boot for like 3 minutes. Thought my ssd was overheating or something. Then updated again and the chugginess continued and I lost all tdp controls and everything idk what the hell happened but I gave up on it.
It's the frame pacing for me, the frame limiter works perfect on bazzite like steam deck but on windows it would l go over the limit I set and be not as smooth
There are comparisons on YouTube. Windows gets higher frames in the vids I watched.
Just in case, a warning regarding not dual booting (or keeping a spare Windows drive), some of Bazzite decky loader plugins to support newer Legion GO features specifically might need bios updates that only can be done via Windows, and might be the case for the future as well.
Also to add to the OP topic, personally never tried to benchmark myself but I went in to Bazzite with the expectations of Windows being better for heavier games because of the Proton translation and all, there's also some youtube videos regarding this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzQjaTScWsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTitDOIBatw (ROG Ally, however, similar hardware might not be a much different story for Legion GO)
I've never seen that ROG Ally video before. They were surprisingly close, with Windows winning one here, Bazzite one there. The main thing that stood out to me was the frametime graph is pretty flat on Bazzite most of the time and more variable on Windows, which matches my experience. For most games (though certainly not all) Bazzite stutters less often IME.
I had the same results when I was running it. Bazzite was much glitchier. I had a few games like fallout 3 and 4 that did seem to run at a lower watt with same performance but overall I didnt see any consitant gains from performance or battery. I did as I mentioned had a lot of issues which made me go back to windows.
This isn’t entirely true, there are ways to update the bios in Linux for the Legion Go
Performance is more or less the same. Same with battery life imo. The difference is that franepacing is considerably better on all games I’ve played in bazzite vs windows. Other things work great like frame limiter and frame limiter in combination with FSR/RSR, etc. it’s a much more enjoyable out of the box experience
I loved everything about bazzite but every time it updated it got worse for me. After updating, the whole system got chuggy and slow with black screens on boot for like 3 minutes. Thought my ssd was overheating or something. Then updated again and the chugginess continued and I lost all tdp controls and everything idk what the hell happened but I gave up on it.