Don't feed the troll.

This user has a history of bad faith arguments. Don't take the bait, no matter how delicious it looks.

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If you’re not trolling and actually expecting some serious reply: no, it’s not a meme. It’s quite fast and playable. All the games that I tried were very playable.

Actually I had Windows games running smoother on Linux. Windows has become so extremely bloated, and the translation layer has become more optimized.

CPU limited games tend to be faster on Linux even with proton/ wine.

I've not tested any GPU limited games.

When you but an nvme bcache on your spinning rust (something Windows can't do) and add fast LZO block compression (something Windows sucks at), games legitimately load much faster. You also get about 30% more games on the drive.

Then the system boots and about 1GB RAM is used by the OS and desktop. The rest is free for your game.

When Linux idles, it really idles. No background garbage. No periodic network activity. No antivirus scans. Pure computing silence.

Fire up a game, and all the hardware becomes yours. The WINE implementation has been optomised to do Windows things faster than Windows can.

At this point, the graphics drivers don't even need to be as good to run faster.

It's not even limited to old or crappy games. Helldivers 2 and Arc Raiders run flawlessly.

Gaming on linux is not a meme, you have to brainwashed by Microsoft to think that.
I'm gaming on my desktop(dual boot win/fedo), Fedora 43, and as the time passes I find less and less errors, which means gaming on linux has evolved to the better.

Trolling aside, Sometimes windows games run faster than Linux games... On Linux.

I remember switching from win10 and trying to continue playing Deus Ex MD and the native version had framedrops and a lower fps than what I was used to. I forced proton compatibility in steam to make it use the windows version and it ran significantly better. The real kicker is that when I compared the benchmarks, it was performing better than the windows version on windows.

And I was one of those crazy powerusers who micro-managed services and did policy & registry tweaks to get improved and more consistent performance... Yet Linux kicked its ass out of the box and through a compatibility layer...

But that's just an anecdote of one case. Some run better, some run worse. Depends on how much effort the devs put in, and dumb luck.

By definition it is a meme.

meme /miːm/ noun noun: meme; plural noun: memes 1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. "celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site" 2. an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.

If you are looking to leave Windows and try Linux for gaming, the Proton situation is not bad at all, as long as you don't play games with invasive kernel-level anticheat because most of them don't work. Some games run worse on Proton tho, but it mostly depends on what GPU driver you have and what brand it is

Nope, works really well for me. From all the games i tried pretty much only anti-cheat games and quest 2 vr stuff gave me troubles, but it has been years since i tried vr and i've heard it has improved a lot. Recently the hdmi 2.1 situation with amd bit me in the ass when i bought a tv as a gaming display, but i ended up buying an adapter and accepting that atleast for the time being, vrr isn't gonna work, cause i tried going back to windows instead but at this point it just feels like torture to use now that i'm used to linux. I'd rather lose vrr if it means i get to be free of windows. I also decided to just give up on any game that uses anti-cheat, cause i found myself not really enjoying them anymore anyway.

With things like Heroic Launcher, Proton support on Steam, easy Linux export on Godot... the idea that you can't play games on Linux is the real "meme".

linux sucks. it bloats everyone arse with it's with cockpilots. Even if you could load up a game in it, it'd insert its own joystick right into your face without asking.

I will note that in my limited testing, I've generally found my VR gaming experience to be lacking compared to my Win10 install/dual boot (which is the whole reason I keep the damn thing around). But that's been genuinely my only performance hit daily driving Linux for the past 4-6 months

The people constantly talking about gaming on Linux are the meme.

In actual reality you just play your games without yapping about invented problems or imaginary benefits.