In a not-so-scientific benchmark conducted by YouTuber Cyber Dopamine, the Rog Xbox Ally managed to perform better without Windows, the operating system it ships with out of the box. Cyber installed Bazzite, a popular Linux distro for handhelds built specifically to offer that console-esque, seamless experience. Visually, Bazzite looks identical to SteamOS because it uses Steam’s Big Picture Mode as its main launcher. It also behaves similarly, but has its own custom menus and settings for customizing things like power profiles (which override Asus’ built-in ones).
When testing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyber noticed a shockingly significant jump in FPS, with Linux generating ~32% more FPS compared to Windows. This trend follows at lower wattages, albeit with less noticeable differences, and the delta actually plateaus in Hogwarts Legacy to the point that both Bazzite and the Xbox FSE offer the same FPS at 13W. That being said, those frame rates are much more consistent on Linux, according to Cyber, who shows that the FPS graph on Windows fluctuates regularly, while staying mostly flat on Bazzite.
Ah, but then how will I use Microsoft Teams?
I’ve recently started to have to use Teams at work and wow it’s awful. In subtle and overt ways.
my favorite least favorite thing about teams is anything that happens when you right click anywhere on anything.
What happens?
I know someone who was working on the Teams codebase. Even they don’t like using Teams (it wouldn’t open properly on Ubuntu for some reason).
Teams actually works just fine. I’m my case installed from the AUR using the electron already present anyways. Zero issues. More specifically zero additional issues compared to Windows.
I’ve taken calls on my pinephone and postmarketos phones (pixel 3a / oneplus 6). Twas fine… actually i have used it to make a clear calls in a pinch.
(pls donate to pmos)
Better let live it at least at flatpak container to give it less permission cause 0 trust to this app
There’s an unofficial client. It works really well. I mean, as well as this piece of shit software generally works.
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
Oop, went thread!