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It really doesn’t, absent a few key games. I’ve just built a new gaming PC and I’ve gone straight with Arch. I was worried the compatibility I experienced with the steam deck may be isolated to the steam deck but it’s shocking how far it’s come.

Is it perfect? No, of course not. But my god it definitely is good enough to cut myself free of MS’s terrible decision-making the last 5ish years.

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Strong agree, I also used to double boot or just add wsl in windows but permanently moved to linux since microsoft is more and more insulting. I don’t get 100% the gaming I get on windows but it the difference is not worth installing malware on my computer at all

Just not if you’re interested in HDR and have an NVIDIA card :( (yep it’s improved heaps, I’m just impatiently waiting for the next new feature branch release past 560.35.02 that hopefully fixes colour desaturation in HDR).

Also, I’m really curious how Big Picture can be so broken on NVIDIA. It’s a webview driven by Chromium AFAIK, does general Chrome suffer the same?

In all seriousness though, everything else is pretty amazing. Proton is awesome.

Does this meaning gaming with the Radeon is feasible?

I don’t bleeding edge cards, but I’m also thinking about moving my gaming machine away from Windows.

Honestly gaming with either is feasible. HDR in general on the Linux desktop is just in an early phase. I think AMD is just better supported because it’s the hardware the Steam Deck runs on and the fact that AMD is way more open-source friendly.

I’ve seen people on Reddit report issues with both types of card, so it’s really just try it and see for your particular setup.

For some games it's perfect, others more dubious. If you look up what you're interested in on protondb it can give you a good idea of the odds things will work well on your setup.

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