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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's just that they don't care about performance. It's been the case for a while that typically games run faster on Linux through WINE/Proton despite using a translation layer.

And there's a bunch of background services taking up memory and CPU on Windows that are hard to turn off.