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.
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.
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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.
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”
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?
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.