I think Windows games will be slower on Linux?
Don’t feed the troll.
This user has a history of bad faith arguments. Don’t take the bait, no matter how delicious it looks.
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.
How did you know my account 's history?
By looking.
love it.
thats some good ol’ trolling like 20 years ago.
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.
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.
But maybe you use a high-end gaming PC? No?
Steam deck is the preeminent system that uses proton.
I’ve got a cheap old ten years old low-end laptop and didn’t know what to do about it. I installed Steam and played Half-Life 2 and Dota 2 (both aren’t very new, I know). They were very snappy. Also, I tried WarCraft 3 via Wine, and it was very good also. I didn’t know what else to test, but for the record Windows itself wasn’t very snappy with it.
How powerful was the laptop’s processor? Did you mean game like Dota 2 run smooth on a laptop? I think that’s for a desktop PC.
“cheap old ten years old low-end laptop”
It’s some low-end Intel i3 processor. Let’s say it’s something about 2 GHz, each core, with 2 or 4 cores. Sorry, I need to check it if you want the precise specs, but they don’t really matter.
It was super smooth, and considering that laptop basically a garbage (Nvidia GPU, which is not used in Linux, I use the integrated Intel one), it played quite well for me. It looks like the difference with Windows is not in its favour. It’s really easy to try it, especially if you have a spare hardware. Eg Dota 2 is free to play, so all you need is to install Steam and download the game. I use Fedora Silverblue, which I can recommend for an average user. (I use Arch on my primary laptop and PC.) Also, I’ve heard good things about Bazzitte, but I personally don’t like Linux distros based on other distros.
Also, I recommend avoiding Nvidia GPUs, unless it’s a high end very new card. (I have heard them being good.) Apart from that, Linux gaming is quite easy, especially if all your games are in Steam. It allows easy installation of things like Proton and is perfectly manageable by a non-pro user via graphical interface.
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.)
By definition it is a meme.
meme /miːm/ noun noun: meme; plural noun: memes 1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. “celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site” 2. an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
Actually I had Windows games running smoother on Linux. Windows has become so extremely bloated, and the translation layer has become more optimized.
Maybe it became faster because you installed a lightweight distro like Arch? What about on Fedora?
Lightweight distro mainly means it uses less Ram, which should not be the limiting resource in this case.
Fedora works ok. Some games require burst optimization, am using cachy kernel, works better. Some games run better on win some on lin. They are equal, for casual gaming.
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.
You have a point but I have to test it first to the PCs available in my local stores. Hopefully what you’re saying are all true.
Check out the steam hardware survey when filtered for Linux.
It’s only true when you buy AMD.
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.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.
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
