How much is the speed drop from translation using Proton? Is it so big or just small? Hows the performance of cartoonish Windows only games? And whats your hardware and how much is the price? I’m sorry but I cannot test it myself because I’m still on my mobile. Can you also tell about how many games are compatible with Proton? What about non-popular games?

  • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    7 hours ago

    For the most part you would just build the same machine as if it was a Windows gaming machine. That said, there are a few things to know:

    • AMD has historically had better video drivers on Linux than nVidia, though nVidia has made some changes that has improved things quite a bit
    • You want a basic, well supported common distribution if you’re not extremely familiar with Linux. Don’t go with some weird niche distro because you heard it will get you 1% better frame rates. Things like Steam and Lutris are well supported on the common easy distros. I would suggest Mint as it is Debian based, and basically everything supports Debian derivatives.
    • Not every game will work, but a whole lot will. The things that are most unlikely to are competitive online games with anticheat root kits. If those matter to you, then unfortunately you’re better oft in windows.
    • Take a look at https://www.protondb.com/ for a list of what is well supported and any information if they need some trick to run.
    • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
      6·
      5 hours ago

      For a new PC I’d probably recommend fedora, purely due to more modern kernels with better hardware support, though Mint now has the Hardware Enablement Kernels iirc