I dunno. These comparisons always feel kind of disingenuous.
The guy shows the instant resume on linux. Great. That's really good. I genuinely think that quick resume and suspend is a great feature. No notes.
It's the windows comparison that I have issue with. He demonstrates that it takes a very long time to "fully go to sleep" with the fans off and then OVER A MINUTE to sign back in. That's just outrageous and flat out not representative of a true experience; unless you're an idiot I guess.
He signs in with a PIN, which means he's signed in with a microsoft account, which means he's getting alllll of the related telemetry bloat and all that. ALL of that can be disabled. You DO NOT need to sign into windows with anything other than a local user with no password. You can disable all of the data collection. You can turn off background services etc that bog down windows. Also I see he's using sleep instead of hibernate, which is a mistake. Sleep takes longer to shut down and wake up, and drains more power, AND can cause connectivity issues with bluetooth, controllers, etc.
By my testing, on my Z1E Legion Go with W11 25H2 hibernating took 12.15 seconds to "fully turn off the fans" and all that; if you care about that. The screen goes black immediately. So if your goal is to turn it off and walk away, you can set the device down the moment you press the power button without cause for concern.
Wake up took 14.3 seconds from cold to back in game. It's a FAR cry from the instant suspend/resume of Bazzite, but a also a far cry from the 1:20+ this guy is showing in his video. This throws all of his testing into question.
Here is one of his tests on windows.
Here is his "same settings" test on Bazzite.
I can tell from this test that Windows' power plan is not set correctly. The GPU is being starved while the CPU is suggin up way more power than it needs. In Bazzite, that's probably managed automagically, thanks to the hard work of the people behind it, and gee look, his GPU is being clocked significantly higher and getting a much better framerate. Incredible. I can't believe it.
Wow.
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If Bazzite is
super optimized by gamers, for gamers specifically to squeeze all of the performance possible out of a given system versus...
Windows 11 being completely unoptimized for this sort of use case out of the box with tons of bloat by default...
These are not fair comparisons. Also the tester in question might be a moran. Windows 11 demands that users take some responsibility to achieve the best performance on a device running it.
Of course relegating that responsibility to a third party like Valve or Bazzite to piggyback off their years of work is certainly an option; but it's not fair to treat this like some magic bullet for Windows' uncurable performance woes.
I have two windows handhelds, and two steam decks, and I have gone back and forth with steamOS and bazzite and windows many times, believe me, and in the end, all of my devices are running W11. I guarantee you that any meager performance penalty I might endure is vastly more preferable to the avalanche of compatibility issues and quirky problems you run into trying to shoehorn Linux into the situation.
