My Experience Of Gaming On Linux For An Entire Year (2020)
528In this video I cover my experience of using Linux as my primary gaming platform for an entire year (2020).
In Summary
* Ultimately distribution does not matter, rolling release distribution will give you access to drivers and software sooner, but often an alternative can be found with fixed release distribution such as PPAs.
* EA Origin games are stuttery unless you disable write access to the Origin folder.
* The performance hit for DirectX 12 games is really not worth it in my experience if you have a 10 series or below from nVidia (I have a GTX 1080).
* Custom kernels that are designed for better management for resources when your system is under load, I honestly did not find made any difference to gaming performance.
* nVidia proprietary drivers work very well on Linux, with the exception of screen tearing occurring when the compositor is disabled, but this is fixed by enabling Force Composition Pipeline.
* Desktop environments do not really make a difference to gaming performance, however I have noticed that using stock Proton do not longer disables the compositor in KDE Plasma, but Proton-GE does.
Ultimately I concluded that Windows 10 is still the superior platform for gaming, and advised people not to switch to Linux purely on a gaming basis, but for other reason such as having a genuine interest in other operating systems, wanting to build your own operating system, and ultimately want to have control over your operating system, not the other way round.
The gaming is a bonus, but really, use whatever works best for you, whether that is Linux, Windows, or Mac OS or Android.
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