The thing is, I game. And I’ve found CachyOS to be performing better on games than Windows. In fact, I’m running Expedition 33 with forced FSR4 on a Navi 2 GPU (which isn’t supposed to support FSR4) and it performs better than with FSR3 on Windows. That honestly surprised me. Unfortunate that FSR is becoming a requirement for so many modern games (thanks UE5). And then there’s anticheat…
Commenting mostly to agree that Linux is great and add that I’m able to play all my games on Linux without major issues and I don’t have Windows bloating the machine or interrupting my gameplay. Proton has really helped Linux gaming and made it trivially easy in most cases to get things to work right.
The real fix is running Linux.
In the last year, I’ve found that on my main machine, fedora is FINE.
I mostly surf, I’m not a gamer, and for me Linux ticks the boxes I need
YMMV you should do you; but my daily driver as a Linux box has been flawless
Fedora (like pretty much any distribution) runs most games just fine.
The thing is, I game. And I’ve found CachyOS to be performing better on games than Windows. In fact, I’m running Expedition 33 with forced FSR4 on a Navi 2 GPU (which isn’t supposed to support FSR4) and it performs better than with FSR3 on Windows. That honestly surprised me. Unfortunate that FSR is becoming a requirement for so many modern games (thanks UE5). And then there’s anticheat…
All I want for Xmas 2025 is for Autodesk to support Linux.
Commenting mostly to agree that Linux is great and add that I’m able to play all my games on Linux without major issues and I don’t have Windows bloating the machine or interrupting my gameplay. Proton has really helped Linux gaming and made it trivially easy in most cases to get things to work right.