> There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

I dunno. I remember a little while back some reviewers got a hold of both a Windows version and Linux version of a handheld gaming machine that had exactly the same hardware. The conclusion reached was that the Linux version was better in nearly every way.

As I remember it, a little while after this happened, some muckety-muck in the Gaming Division in Microsoft announced something like "We're making a new committment to consistent, high performance in Windows on handheld gaming devices! We're going to ensure all those little game-spoiling roadblocks are removed!". Which, like, good job making it NOT look like you're spasmodically reacting to bad press, guy.

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Night_Thastus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently. It's very possible for Proton to perform better for handhelds but worse for desktop PCs.

	▲	simoncion 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently. The handhelds we're talking about are -essentially- a low-power [0] laptop in a tiny case. Again, we're talking about exactly the same hardware, that provides substantially worse performance when Windows is the OS than when Linux is the OS. For reference, here's one instance of the original coverage of the phenomenon about which I spoke: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q> [0] But higher power than one might naively expect!