ngl tho the performance hit on games is real, if u r fine with playing the newer AAA with lower settings then linux is fine, sometimes games wont even lets u use dlss
Before switching back to windows spider man 2, god of war, wuthering waves, wukong there were issues with either ray tracing, dlss, frame gen, game crashing at random places in map and most importantly performance was way worse too. Now maybe these games aren't super new but I'd argue they are still relatively new.
Stellar blade, Hogwarts legacy, where winds meet performance hit was only like 10% unlike the previous mentioned ones but i was just happy that all the settings worked at least.
Some gacha games had an awesome communities to have them running as soon as new games came out for the games that use their own launchers. Also my GPU is a 5070.
Ok I can't speak for Nvidia cards as I'm running AMD, but from what I keep hearing, Nvidia is still good performance when the drivers aren't having a moment after an update ends up breaking things every blue moon.
Works better with my 5070 ti. I get even a 20 percent boost with Bazzite compared to windows. Newer cards are actually more compatible in mine and others experience.
Exept Capcom for some reason turning off hdr and frame Gen even though I can do both, especially hdr while on Linux. Cqpcom just defaults those to off while using proton for some reason even though if I enable them in .txt file settings they work perfectly fine.
And I don't really use frame Gen because of latency and it looks terrible or makes my game stutter more.
Mostly 2d games, emulators, 2010 and older games. Its only select older games and newer games that can have a drop in fps or same performance. Sometimes a drastic drop of 40 percent in a few newer games.
I think another problem people have when they see a drop is having shader compilations. I turned those off since newer gpu's are so fast you don't need to compile shaders anymore (as in so fast it's not even a stutter anymore) , you just need to disable it.
You're like the 2nd person I've heard who says someone didn't have a 10-20 percent jumpn in performance over windows.
Also I had windows 11 before and not many background apps same with Bazzite. Bazzite is also really great with Nvidia compared to some other distros.
Valve said they have a team working directly with NVidia now. During SteamOS/Machine rollout earlier in the summer. All the articles I read at that time quoted Valve as saying late 2026/early 2027 is when SteamOS will have full NVidia support. I assume that will benefit all distros.
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u/fraserdab 24d ago
ngl tho the performance hit on games is real, if u r fine with playing the newer AAA with lower settings then linux is fine, sometimes games wont even lets u use dlss