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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?
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Gaming is 100 percent not 'on par' I've exclusively used Linux for years now, and consistently run into issues not present on windows.
Is it good enough? Almost, but there are hugely critical aspects missing.
Lots of simulators (I racing, fanatec) lack support Anti cheats as mentioned. Plain old poor performance.
Protondb only lists 20 percent of titles as 'platinum' rated, with most gold games needing tweaks.
30 percent of titles are silver or lower.
I still to this day get hitching and stuttering as data is streamed into memory in many games, sekiro recently comes to mind, making any level transition exceedingly annoying.
I have a LARGE diverse library of games I bought when I was gaming on windows.
Literally all of them work fine on my steam deck except a handful of AAA games from companies hostile to linux ("anticheat" bs, they don't want linux gaming to suceed for business reasons), some really ancient DOS games actually work better like Steel Panthers/winspmbt.
I am sorry but especially if you are into indie games even a little, your perspective is no longer indicative for the experience of gaming on linux in general.
Don't gaslight me. The games you play may work fine, but the games I play don't always. And the games I play are almost exclusively single player small scale indie games. I play games on Linux just about every day, exclusively. My experience is that, while serviceable it's just strictly not on par, as you claim. Though you contradict yourself anyway by hand waving games that don't work.
I don't understand the need that people have to pretend like it's all perfect. Attitude like yours is toxic, diminishing the experience of others in order to pretend like there are not any issues, trying to put the onus on the user for playing the wrong games or not conforming to the idea that proton is a perfect solution.
I am not claiming it is perfect, I am saying the experience is already much less of a headache than windows is at this point with all of microsoft's bs.