I'm planning on switching to Linux on my main PC as I don't want to move to Windows 11 and was curious about other people's experiences doing so.

I have a Steam Deck and everything there works out of the box, but I imagine that's a more curated platform compared to standard distros.

What are your experiences, good or bad?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proton generally works pretty well but there is a slight performance hit. Depending on your setup you may not even notice it but especially with some less recent GPUs it can make a substantial difference. Games that run natively usually run an well or better compared to Windows. And then there's a few that don't work on Linux because of some anticheat but I don't play online a lot so no idea about the specifics.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I generally hear about better performance on linux due the os being lighter, except for issues with dx12 on nvidia. Is that what you are referring to?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Frame time pacing seems to be a lot better through Proton. Elden Ring runs better on my Steam Deck than my i5 13600k & 4090.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think that's pretty specific to Elden Ring -- it's had that stuttering bug since launch on Windows and while they made it better it still happens, but for whatever quirk of Proton it never happened on Linux.

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