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Games consistently get fewer FPS on my setup. 3750H GTX1650. Part of it is nvidia drivers being poopoo, most of it being CPU cycles overhead.

In my experience the nvidia drivers have been getting much better recently.

Proton's not perfect, but it's been mostly worth it for me not to have to boot windows.

Agreed. For anyone interested in FPS boost, try glorious eggroll proton.

I personally compile it myself off the AUR with the -O3 -march=native flags (look at the PKGBUILD for more details), and I get fewer FPS than Windows, yet more consistently than Wine. No microstuttering.

My experience is that even running Among Us (i.e. a very simple game) via Steam/Proton on Ubuntu LTS (i.e. the most common platform) was quite fiddly. Didn't have chance to try much else, Factorio is luckily native

For most things absolutely- I’ve had great success with proton. There are a few holdouts, especially in the VR space where Windows is still unfortunately very necessary.

Not even close.