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Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
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None of the big ones have matched Win11 performance on my machine, or even come close enough to justify switching. I’m hoping that SteamOS’ planned Nvidia support, which reportedly is being developed with some degree of collaboration with Nvidia, will move that needle.
If you are noticing a big discrepancy between proton and windows across many games then there's something wrong with your setup. On average proton seems to out perform windows if all of those news articles are to be believed, at least it should be on par anyway. If you are actually serious about switching then try debugging or just try a different distro like cachy.
Just like any other compute workload, performance is going to vary significantly by game and by hardware setup. Generally AMD hardware does see good improvements in Proton, while Intel + Nvidia is more of a mixed bag, and there’s plenty of reporting out there on slowdowns when switching over. I’ve invested real time in this—tried Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara, mucked around with drivers, proton distributions, launch options, all that. As much as I’d love to report Linux has blown me away here, that’s just not the case. The ecosystem keeps improving and I’ll keep trying because I fucking despise Windows, but at the end of the day I’m rolling with what works.