That's mainly an nVidia issue. On AMD, Linux is actually faster and more stable compared to Windows.

There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

For some games it can be. For some games Proton performs far worse than Windows. It's not steady across the board. And some have stability issues, bugs, major performance problems, or just flat out don't work.

I want Proton to be the future as well, but I think it's important not to oversell it as a drop-in replacement either.

EDIT: GN highly recommends against apples-to-oranges comparisons of the two, but even looking at their own data for AMD cards (with exact same CPU, RAM, and motherboard) it clearly shows Proton being behind on the order of 6-15%. Not a lot, but not ahead either. You can compare the numbers for the AMD cards against this video's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP0axVHdP-U

EDIT 2: Instead of just down-voting because the result makes you unhappy, how about responding with well-sourced proof otherwise?

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birksherty 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Another video showing the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqIjUddUSo0

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dralley 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From personal experience, all of the games that I personally play seem to work at least as well if not better on Linux than Windows. The only exception is FSR4, but that ought to be fixed soon.

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d3Xt3r 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

FWIW, I wasn't the one who downvoted you. I can't even downvote here as I'm apparently "karmically broke". I have 468 karma, not sure how much I even need to downvote...

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simoncion 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

I dunno. I remember a little while back some reviewers got a hold of both a Windows version and Linux version of a handheld gaming machine that had exactly the same hardware. The conclusion reached was that the Linux version was better in nearly every way.

As I remember it, a little while after this happened, some muckety-muck in the Gaming Division in Microsoft announced something like "We're making a new committment to consistent, high performance in Windows on handheld gaming devices! We're going to ensure all those little game-spoiling roadblocks are removed!". Which, like, good job making it NOT look like you're spasmodically reacting to bad press, guy.

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Night_Thastus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently. It's very possible for Proton to perform better for handhelds but worse for desktop PCs.

	▲	simoncion 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently. The handhelds we're talking about are -essentially- a low-power [0] laptop in a tiny case. Again, we're talking about exactly the same hardware, that provides substantially worse performance when Windows is the OS than when Linux is the OS. For reference, here's one instance of the original coverage of the phenomenon about which I spoke: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q> [0] But higher power than one might naively expect!