This report is meant to display the different performance between Windows and Linux gamingservers. The two authors have conducted elaborate and in-depth experiments and tests to be able to compare the network performances. The experiments were conducted using four different test persons playing 4 different games from our selfhosted game server. The server is a Sunshine Gamestream Server.

The results have shown that Windows had higher FPS and higher throughput, but that the latency was close to the same, down to the millisecond on each test.

The authors also find it fascinating that Linux Gaming has come a long way in the short amount of time it has had the chance to utilize the new Proton engine from Steam, and it shows promising results for the future of cloud gaming.