You can even run most DX11 games with WineD3D (that's an OpenGL translation layer, built-in on Wine). OpenGLis said that you need a vulkan compatible hardware to use it, at least if you want good performance but there are workarounds if your hardware doesnt support vulkan instead using OpenGL On mint i got one time 600 fps somehow runing native. So if you can, you have the time to configure and there is no limitation for you or favorite game like anti cheat for valorant i highly recommend linux if the majority of the games are you playing are supported or can be played. (i am planning on doing benchmarks but with my gpu it wont reflect the potential of linux) When playing on mu favorite server with 110 people on average i run at 26 when there is intense graphical activity (but it seems quite common even for high end gpus like the 2080 based on other people commenting on their performance on windows), at the start of the game i had 66 (my fps cap is 66) and 80 with a higher fps cap of 120, the performance and fps drops where more noticeable with lots of player models particles and effects, so the fps are both higher and lower in comparison to windows, while on windows you will get more stable fps in said cases, the top fps will be about 120 single player and 90 multiplayer while on linux i could get 170 on average and spiked on 300 but also on average the lows were worst but the lowest drop in fps was higher on linux 26-36 while on windows it was lower at 17-20. On the second time and after doing some test is clear that i can run gmod at 120fps average but i cant be sure if the fps drops are related to my poor gpu or to the game itself or even to linux. there is an issue that is related to your graphics settings and window mode (fix later) again when it worked some times the performance will be trash running the game at 6 fps, so better use proton. In my case playing on my favorite server Sunrust ZS (zombie Survival) i got +20 stable fps on native (when it worked) no stuttering at all, no HDD spikes, and it even look better. Linux Native Performs generally worse, but proton may perform better there is a known problem if your games are in a drive that worked on windows the file format of the disk are NTFS and this file format are known to be problematic if you play games from that drive I Got 600 FPS once (for 20 secs) with my GT710 (1gb) on a 100 max cap server something is holding linux performance back, i know there is an error, i got 2x a lot more performance under certain conditions. If you have your game in a hdd like me and changed from windows to linux the game probably wont work directly If you are ofter tunr cosmetics off, in linux there are almost no performance drops Linux will run better than any other if you know how to tunne it with your needs. "Linux is better if you don't mind about your time" that's the truth, you are the support here, most of the time things that were made for windows wont run on linux out of the box. , Loading time is faster, you don't get stuttering and HDD spikes, restarting you pc is faster, the gaming on Linux feels like you were gaming on a really top tier pc even if you don't have one. (yes native apps, but apps not made for linux will have a perf degradation that will leave the performance pair to windows) Its just better (even with Linux Native), first of all Network is more stable Is not widely spread on home and personal computers Why use Linux? Linux is a highly, secure, customizable thanks to its open source nature, modularity.