I think Windows games will be slower on Linux?
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So why not ban them?
Why would I? They haven't broken any rules, and we haven't had a good troll post since Madthumbs left.
Sorry, I fed the troll, but I expect others might find the discussion valuable then.
If you’re not trolling and actually expecting some serious reply: no, it’s not a meme. It’s quite fast and playable. All the games that I tried were very playable.
CPU limited games tend to be faster on Linux even with proton/ wine.
I've not tested any GPU limited games.
I’ve heard Vulkan really shines, but I had no chance to actually compare it apples to apples with Windows. (As I don’t use one.)
Nope, works really well for me. From all the games i tried pretty much only anti-cheat games and quest 2 vr stuff gave me troubles, but it has been years since i tried vr and i've heard it has improved a lot. Recently the hdmi 2.1 situation with amd bit me in the ass when i bought a tv as a gaming display, but i ended up buying an adapter and accepting that atleast for the time being, vrr isn't gonna work, cause i tried going back to windows instead but at this point it just feels like torture to use now that i'm used to linux. I'd rather lose vrr if it means i get to be free of windows. I also decided to just give up on any game that uses anti-cheat, cause i found myself not really enjoying them anymore anyway.
Actually I had Windows games running smoother on Linux. Windows has become so extremely bloated, and the translation layer has become more optimized.
By definition it is a meme.
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When you but an nvme bcache on your spinning rust (something Windows can't do) and add fast LZO block compression (something Windows sucks at), games legitimately load much faster. You also get about 30% more games on the drive.
Then the system boots and about 1GB RAM is used by the OS and desktop. The rest is free for your game.
When Linux idles, it really idles. No background garbage. No periodic network activity. No antivirus scans. Pure computing silence.
Fire up a game, and all the hardware becomes yours. The WINE implementation has been optomised to do Windows things faster than Windows can.
At this point, the graphics drivers don't even need to be as good to run faster.
It's not even limited to old or crappy games. Helldivers 2 and Arc Raiders run flawlessly.
Gaming on linux is not a meme, you have to brainwashed by Microsoft to think that.
I'm gaming on my desktop(dual boot win/fedo), Fedora 43, and as the time passes I find less and less errors, which means gaming on linux has evolved to the better.
If you are looking to leave Windows and try Linux for gaming, the Proton situation is not bad at all, as long as you don't play games with invasive kernel-level anticheat because most of them don't work. Some games run worse on Proton tho, but it mostly depends on what GPU driver you have and what brand it is
I will note that in my limited testing, I've generally found my VR gaming experience to be lacking compared to my Win10 install/dual boot (which is the whole reason I keep the damn thing around). But that's been genuinely my only performance hit daily driving Linux for the past 4-6 months
The performance is still notably worse than native Windows, but are you familiar with WiVRn/Monado? You can read more on it here, Discord server linked there has a lot of helpful people when it comes to VR on Linux.
The people constantly talking about gaming on Linux are the meme.
In actual reality you just play your games without yapping about invented problems or imaginary benefits.
There are legitimate problems. I had the most issues with Nvidia drivers, just go with AMD on linux