[bee_rider]

A couple things. Anti-cheat software. I don’t really play competitive game but for some reason Helldivers 2 has anti-cheat (I guess it is the live-service model).

Nebulous and ill-founded concern that my PC (2018 era) might suffer a little from the not-emulation-but-sorta-emulation layer of Proton. I haven’t researched this, though.

Mostly it is just bearable at the moment, and I think I’m probably about a year or so out from wanting to upgrade anyway, so I might just do it all at once.

[kristofferg]

I think you would be suprised how solid linux gaming is by now. I play Helldivers 2 with my son - One windows machine, one Ubuntu. No issues with anti-cheat so far. Only issue, with linux gaming, at the moment is some MS published games with wonky networking code (like AoE4). I see no performance dip at all on proton vs win-native.

[bee_rider]

I probably would be! I tried it seriously with AAA games around 10 years ago. I keep a copy of Steam/proton on my Linux laptop, it does seem pretty good, but it is a thin-and-light so I’ve only been playing simple games on it. I assumed the AAA stuff was pickier

[freeone3000]

On games without anti-cheat, proton performs 5-8% better than windows 10

[fzzzy]

When I used Proton Glorious Eggroll for a while, it played my entire steam library better than windows.

Also, pop os makes nvidia drivers automatic.