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My experience with Proton is that only ~30% of my games work out of the box. Some games like dota2, and factorio are native linux and work MUCH better (faster/higher fps) in linux. A bunch of windows games work fine, other's semi work, an", "context": "recently moved to Linux for gaming", "use_case": "main OS for gaming", "switched_from": "Windows", "story": "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"}, {"id": 770020432, "item_id": 48126277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126277", "by": "keithnz", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seems to be working out well for them.", "excerpt": "my son, and his friends all seem to have switched to https://garudalinux.org/ recently for gaming. 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My experience with Proton is that only ~30% of my games work out of the box. Some games like dota2, and factorio are native linux and work MUCH better (faster/higher fps) in linux. A bunch of windows games work fine, other's semi work, an", "context": "recently moved to Linux for gaming", "use_case": "main OS for gaming", "switched_from": "Windows", "story": "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"}, {"id": 770020432, "item_id": 48126277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126277", "by": "keithnz", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seems to be working out well for them.", "excerpt": "my son, and his friends all seem to have switched to https://garudalinux.org/ recently for gaming. 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I think it's a combination of kernel parameters and other choices all tuned to reduce latency, that add up. sure you could do the same thing on a Fedora install but that would require knowing what all of them were. I'm talking settings like scheduling algorithm for thre", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"}]}