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There's of course a ton of variables at play here, and I'm gonna preface this by saying I'm by no means a graphics/performance snob and I'm mostly playing older games.
But anecdotally, there have been some cases where Linux has been a night and day difference for me.
My computer is basically 12+ years old, it's basically the same computer my wife built before we started dating crammed into a new box with a couple upgrades along the way. It has a pre-ryzen AMD processor, and a 2060, so it's definitely not technically meeting required specs for a lot of games but it's holding it's own and chugging along managing to run most of what I try to throw at it on (what I think are) acceptable settings.
I got Helldivers 2 to run on it exactly once on windows, every time after that it crashed on the loading screen when I tried to join a game no matter how I tried to get it running.
Since switching to Linux it's been playable. Not necessarily the smoothest experience, but certainly good enough for my needs.
That's probably the newest game I've tried to run, I'm cheap and tend to wait a couple years to get games on sale. All the older games I've tried to run so far have pretty much run the same as on windows as far as I can tell.