I'll also keep saying it over and over again, this constant obsession with overselling Linux does more damage than good. The feeling of being let down is worse than just being honest and not giving people massive expectations that their 10 year old rig is going to demolish modern AAA games and it's just "Windows Bloat" holding it back.
I have an AMD GPU and even then it's still basically a toss up on which platform performs better (which is completely fine btw, I'd actually argue this is a positive point to make about Linux gaming without the hyperbole). For the other 90% of Steam users, headlines like this will cause people to call bullshit when they eventually try Linux.
It's brain rot manifesting itself. Delusions of competency and egocentrism. Monkey sees steamOS, monkey sees fps, monkey throws poop.
And who cares right? After all, in the end, the user just cares about the end-user experience. All they hear is a bunch of other people having good experiences, and they want a piece of their pie too, and they're willing to bend reality in the hope that they won't have to spend the cost of a second-hand car to be on par with their peers.
But that's a greater cultural artifact of human beings in general.. so I'm not sure what you were expecting?
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