What's the current status on linux gaming? can i finally leave this microsoft kikery behind?

It's going to come down to shaders.

Proton builds a shader cache as you play when shaders get called.

It stops stuttering you do have to get the effects to show on screen though at least once for it to smooth out. After that it will start distributing your shader cache to other players to help them out.

You're probably the first one to play it on linux if it's stuttering for you.

Proton performance is within 3-4% of windows in the latest release for pretty much everything I've tested. I am on the hottest drivers though...

>had Arch on my brand new computer trying to get the GPU passthrough method to work
>couldn't get the sound to work right no matter what I did
>switched back to windows, got everything set up
>proton dropped like a week later
I'm still heated, I wish I had lasted a bit longer

>everybody is this thread is lying to you. under NO circumstances should you EVER, EVER, EVER, get rid of windows.
Pajeet my son...

Ubuntu will work fine, they have a GUI driver manager that grabs the nonfree drivers for you without having to undergo that hassle.

You have options if you don't like gnome on their stock 18.04
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Lubuntu

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Arch sucks.

I say this as an Arch user for 2 years.
Ubuntu & Debian for life, I cannot afford to waste my time.

Only good Arch out there is Parabola, purely for the free software memes.

I've been using Arch on my laptop for over 5 years now, and Ubuntu/Debian on my servers for about the same amount of time. I would never dare run a stable distro on a desktop system.

It's pretty decent. AAA games with crap DRM and/or multiplayer stuff that relies on really finnicky anti-cheats still suffer, but a lot of indie/niche stuff, which is most of what I care for, runs pretty acceptably through proton or have native versions.

I don't use steam, I tried to add non-steam games on it to try Proton but it just doesn't want to launch games.

Your WIFI is compatible. Debian just doesn't enable grabbing the drivers by default.

The reason they do that is to expose the user to as little nonfree software as possible including external drivers. The whole OS is built on the idea that all the software is free. Mixing nonfree is less stable and secure on a system that is built purely on the idea that you can have the source code.

You can get distros that aren't as stingy about it or just grab Debian with nonfree stuff in the liveCD.

check for yourself
protondb.com/
I can also confirm that WoW (1.12) runs damn near flawlessly on wine which is a massive improvement from it crashing every hour

partition a drive for windows
use linux as your boot drive
ez pz

Steam Proton as a default runner of exes is a bit hacky.

It might be worth it to grab stock wine, which Proton is based on, and install a few things.

sudo apt install wine winetricks

Grab DXVK and install it to your wine prefix. In your home folder as .wine using the script it comes with.

Various games will use windows dependencies and winetricks can install them for you automatically and without having to click next next next.
The upshot of all this is that you just set the exe to run with wine by default and you double click it and it will run with a fake C:\ drive in your hidden .wine folder.

Check appdb.winehq.org/ for more info on specific games and applications.

I liked using it as an every day OS a lot more than Windows. I wish gaming on it was better, I haven't used it in a couple of years because I play too many games on my computer these days.

>using a windows emulator

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a lot of games with FMVs in them seem to fuck proton up.

Licensing issues make WMV a nogo at the moment.

github.com/popsUlfr/Proton/releases

This guy made his own version that fixes WMV and various other cool bits. It's slightly dated though.