Proton has made enormous strides toward game compatibility through advances in related technologies like DXVK, which enable DirectX 9, 10, and 11 games to run through the Vulkan API.
This is definitely good news! But when I tried some games on Linux, they simply doesn’t run as smoothly compared to Windows on same hardware. Some even required fiddling :(
I had the opposite experience. Games that worked only after shady DLL replacements and third party mods, and barely at that, worked at one click on GNU/Linux for me.
I will interject for a moment to say that what you are referring to as GNU/Linux, is now GNU/Steam/Linux. Steam is an integral part of Linux that allows games and other non native applications to be ran natively without virtualisation.
This is definitely good news! But when I tried some games on Linux, they simply doesn’t run as smoothly compared to Windows on same hardware. Some even required fiddling :(
I had the opposite experience. Games that worked only after shady DLL replacements and third party mods, and barely at that, worked at one click on GNU/Linux for me.
I will interject for a moment to say that what you are referring to as GNU/Linux, is now GNU/Steam/Linux. Steam is an integral part of Linux that allows games and other non native applications to be ran natively without virtualisation.
Steam is a monolithic kernel for the GNU/Linux operating system.
Linux is now just a shell, and GNU a bunch of Qt programs. Steam is the real deal.