I think Windows games will be slower on Linux?
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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.
Actually I had Windows games running smoother on Linux. Windows has become so extremely bloated, and the translation layer has become more optimized.
CPU limited games tend to be faster on Linux even with proton/ wine.
I've not tested any GPU limited games.
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.
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
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.