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Gaming is so seamless on Linux now, even compared to just a year ago.
The amount of tweaks or fiddling I have to do now with games is basically zero.
Nearly every game I play literally just works. Not just on Proton either, but with regular Wine through Lutris, Windows games just play without issue.
I've never been happier with Linux than now.
I see this type of comment all the time on here. I tried switching over completely a week ago and had nothing but problems.
I went with Kubuntu after hearing success stories of gaming on Ubuntu and the great GUI of KDE. R5 5600X and 3080 Ti.
Framerate on Arma 3 was abysmal. It's mostly CPU locked so NVIDIA drivers aren't as critical. Max 30 FPS in a location I'd usually get 75+.
Lutris was unable to install the blizzard launcher. It was giving me an error about using a 64 bit version of WINE instead of 32 despite Lutris pulling the dependencies. I manually installed the supposed packages and had no option to manually select them in the installation process. Lutris automatically selected the wrong one and I gave up after that - about an hour of trying to install it.
Gaming on Linux is nowhere near ready for most people. There's just too much troubleshooting and frustration.
If you only tried two games, one of them was launcher problems on Blizzards end (fuck Blizzard), then you can't really comment on much. ArmA is notoriously CPU entensive, and it may not work well with Linux. Is it marked on Steam as Linux compatible?
I've been playing Arma3 on Linux for about a year and a half now, works perfectly for me.
Frames are high and smooth, graphical settings all work well, no crashes.
I'm on Nobara Linux with a 6700xt and a 5800X3D. I just run it through Steam, I think with the default Proton version, possibly experimental.
I played about a dozen games and most of them worked great through steam.
Arma is gold rated on protondb.
What I don't understand is why everyone talks about how easy Linux gaming is when it's clearly not as simple a process as Windows.