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For me personally performance with Linux gaming is much less of a problem than it was with teenage me's Windows gaming. Back in the day I didn't have much money, but today I can just buy a slightly beefier GPU to compensate any possible performance loss from compatibility layers.

With my 7 year old GTX 1080 and Ubuntu/Steam Proton I can still play most games at very high settings (except raytracing stuff).

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Then we have different priorities, if I spend a lot of money on a gaming machine beefy GPU I want 100% of its performance at all times and no risk of problems cutting into my limited gaming time. If there is a problem on Windows you can be sure the game devs will give it a priority over a problem on Linux.

Been a Linux user for over 20 years, still use it for work, and yes Proton does look great, but I don't see using it for gaming anytime soon.

Funny thing is that there are lots of reports for games of linux outperforming Windows. So considering that you might want to checking first, you might need to run Linux to really get 100% out of your GPU.

I would sincerely recommend you give it another shot. If proton works well for the game, performance is most likely to be very close to windows, if not even exceed it.

The best part is that it's trivially easy. Most games with decent proton support will install just like a native game. No frills. No mess.

When the Linux experience is smooth, it's smooth. None of the fake Fullscreen BS. No memory paging quirks or other background processes causing stuttering. No automatically putting your game process in sleep mode. Freesync works. You get to keep your favorite window manager/desktop environment. If you are lucky, you can totally ditch windows today.

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