Your other doubts and concerns seem slightly biased, e.g. wondering what settings could be tweaked on only one of the systems being tested and then reminding us all that there do still exist some things that won't run on SteamOS. It's only that one that is outright ridiculous.

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds -
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds> Did the author run the benchmarks few times to rule out shader compilation Really grasping at straws there, eh? I'm no big fan of Ars but I hope we can assume they're not quite that incompetent. -
PC gaming figures fall again in Germany, down to just 13.1 million — marking a 20% decline since 2019> continued innovations from major players like Microsoft MS using its massive reserves of innovation to acquire many of the major game studios. -
Math MattersDepends how tall they are.