It depends.

Some multiplayer games like BF6 or Fortnite don’t work at all.

Nvidia gaming drivers are slower than on Windows. AI workload drivers on Linux are great.

Single player games on full AMD systems usually run faster and stutters less on Linux.

So again - it depends.

I'm gaming on linux since 2007. Then I had just one working game. Since Valve released SteamDeck, there are so many games available, that I stopped bothering about those which do not work. Really, who cares? I have so big choice that I can ignore everything else.

Well...
I'm more or less on the fence of going from windows to linux. Don't really want w11.
Gaming has come a long way. Steam now has official inux app and the steam deck helped to get compatibility. Also, "platforms" like wine or proton offer compatibility to games not natively compatible with linux. Some claim that up to 90% of steam games can be played on linux, but I would argue yes, but...some require tweaks, some compromise and it might not be straight forward for those not in the know. Also, some games just don't work because of things like anti cheap that developers don't want to make it run on linux or can't make it work. Mostly online games are affected by this.
Also, Nvidia is by far the biggest seller of GPUs and is the one dragging their derrière and making the least effort for linux compatibility. You can make most games run but can also take some serious performance hits.
And some games like roblox, minecraft and others are (mostly) impossible to play on linux. Not impossible, but too much hassle or too many issues for some titles.
I am hopeful that with the steam machine the panorama for linux gaming will improve significantly. Maybe we even get a steamOS specific distro for the "average" PC.
As for distros, kind of depends on what you want. Some begginer friendly ones are Bazzite,Mint, CachyOS but there are dozens of different ones and people will recommend them all one way or another... all with different perks and yes, some times too much to chose from.
But at this point we can only hope for more people to get onto linux, forcing devs to make their games run natively on linux.

It's much better then it was 10 years ago, but I still prefer Windows 10, because it's just more comfy for me to use.
Some Linux distros even have games performing better than Windows.

Also, with new Microsoft policy adding more and more bloatware and spyware with every new version of OS, Linux becoming more popular.
I would have switched to Linux if it wasn't for Microsoft giving 1 more year of free updates.

It depends on how much experience you have with your operating system. Many people have almost exclusively Windows experience, so they initially have a difficult time with Linux.

引用自 x：

And some games like roblox, minecraft and others are (mostly) impossible to play on linux.

Roblox yes, but Minecraft? Minecraft runs better on Linux than on Windows. At least the Java version does. Nobody plays Bedrock.

引用自 x：

roblox

https://sober.vinegarhq.org

Minecraft runs well on linux. Mu son was playing.

The biggest advertizer of linux is Microsoft. They do so much to annoy Windows users, that many will switch soon.

My guess: in couple of months Ms will start 'AI agent' on your PC even before you login (yes, it will also train on your passwords) and use 1 processor core and 8GB RAM immediately from start.

The problem is many people in Ms know how bad it is, but they are being pished by higher management who has spent billions on AI and now they have to show that people use it.

been using it for years now

800 games in my account and very few have trouble

it usually comes down to the version of proton you need

if you have a specific game you want to check

go to protondb and take a look

Linux is great on amd hardware. Plug n play in my experience with pop!_os. I just upgraded to cosmic and I have native vrr support now! Everything is so sharp and clear and scaled properly. rdna2 graphic drivers are baked right into your system. You never have to mess around with drivers.

New games that rely on secure boot won't work, like battlefield 6 for example. Valves anticheat is the only one that really works as far as I know. Games like fortnite and roblox won't work right away from what I can see.

I got really excited when I found lutris. With lutris you can use wine and get windows games to work! I was playing fallout london one-click edition for a few hours yesterday. Cyberpunk works really well in lutris.

Starfield I can just run through steam and it works great. Lossless scaling app can work through the lsfgvk interface. You can set it up through terminal, steam launch commands, decky plugin. Linux is so flexible it's crazy. This is the operating system everyone needs.

I have very limited windows usage now. Battlefield 6 is really the only thing. I've successfully migrated most of my PCs to linux. Compatible machines get the actual steam deck os. Others get bazzite or pop!_os.

For the machines that have windows I'm using windows 10 and 11. Both are iot ltsc enterprise editions and are supported with updates until 2032. No microsoft store! No gamebar! No edge! No bloatware and advertisements! No unwanted useless feature updates!

This is amazing. I finally feel like my computers are actually mine! I update when I feel like it. I install what I want.

I'm disappointed in nvidia when it comes to supporting linux. They are way behind amd. Nvidia sucks in bazzite game mode.

Go Linux!!

nvidia have come a long way when it comes to supporting linux. when i first tried linux, they did not provide drivers at all. the best way to get them to improve is to provide them more data to work with. the more data they have, the better they can make their drivers.

I'll admit pop!_os is okay and maybe bazzite desktop for nvidia. Bazzite game mode though is nasty on nvidia full of graphical glitches galore. It doesn't correct itself until you switch to desktop mode. It's really disappointing and makes nvidia look unprofessional when compared to amd.

Pop!_os still didn't initially install the correct nvidia driver for me. The initial one had no options in nvidia settings. I had to use the terminal to purge nvidia drivers and install the correct one. Then I had full options available.

AMD hardware avoids all of that. Nvidia is no longer in my future when it comes to picking a gpu. They need to be far better in linux.

Oh yeah, and linux doesn't have any forced ai slop companion spy garbage.

引用自 Alxndr：

The last time I tried a linux O/S was back in like 2012 when I used ubuntu, it was a horrible experience, learning the command line, dealing with tzg files or whatever they were called, needing to use hacky alternatives to otherwise established programs, gpu and other hardware dirvers not working etc.

Basically I was lead to believe that linux was optimised for professionals who were coding, and for server management stuff.

But I want to know how its changed over that period of time. With a million different linus distros out there, what is it like in 2025 for a normal home computer doing gamer things?

Just check how steam deck is doing, great.

Everything that runs on deck you can run on a PC running bazzite or another distro.

Ofc some games with anticheat won't work and you will have to try other proton versions when something doesn't work (Proton GE) but in general it's a seemless experience for the most part.

引用自 andreasaspenberg575：

nvidia have come a long way when it comes to supporting linux. when i first tried linux, they did not provide drivers at all. the best way to get them to improve is to provide them more data to work with. the more data they have, the better they can make their drivers.

Nvidia provides Linux drivers from the very beginning.
I had Nvidia drivers for my GeForce2 Titanium sometime in 2002 or so. And it was faster for me that on Windows XP back then - tested on Quake 3 Arena.

BUT....

.... Nvidia seems to neglect Linux gaming drivers now. They are much slower than Windows version now. They seem to focus on AI now where Linux drivers are great. They also have full HDMI 2.1 licence on Linux and proprietary codecs where AMD is lacking. But AMD has superior gaming performance on Linux over Windows now.

not when i first heard of linux back in the 00s. getting nvidia graphics cards to work was done through third party drivers and nvidia barely provided enough data. getting ATI graphics cards to work was easier back then. though that is ancient history. it is a lot better now.