looks like the dev made some efforts with the licensing issues. also improved the performance even a bit more.

kernel level anti-cheat isnt even the issue by itself. most of them work on linux just fine but you can configure them in a way to specifically block linux.

A lot of nerds would be perfectly capable of installing a different OS. But i atleast often forget that screwing around with the computer itself isnt the focus for a lot of them. They just use the computer to get shit done in their field of special interests. Like for me the whole administrative overhead of switching to Linux was only bound by the resource of time. But i really looked forward to it and had a blast when i finally secured enough time to do it. In the end i just learned a new aspect for my hobby. For others that would just take time away for the things they want to do. Interest in open source, privacy, beeing in control of your digital shit etc also isnt as common as one would hope even for computer nerds.

With that said in the last two years i still saw a big shift. Atleast in the other online spaces i frequent and even in my private life tons of people picked up Linux. Just because the strain of windows became so insuffereable.

I’d say it really depends on the game. But generally: yes.

To be clear Proton translates DX API calls to Vulkan so it works at all under Linux. But dxvk (directx to vulkan) is also a thing on Windows and can improve performance. Mostly because DX11 and older versions tended to be a lot more CPU bound. Prominent example would be GTA4 which to this date runs like ass out of the box even on the most potent gaming hardware. With dxvk it gets a lot better.

With that said i came across a few games over the years which just had a shitty or broken Vulkan implementation and using/translating DX was just better.

But if you really care, just try it out? Be sure to have some kind of performance overlay open like the Steam one or MangoHud. Play the game a few minutes with Vulkan and a few minutes with DX11. Maybe you see a bit more FPS, less utilization/powerdraw, better 1% lows, less stuttering, etc. Maybe its insignificant. Hard to tell beforehand without testing. But if you dont see or feel an issue in the first place you also could just ignore the technical specifics and just play the game.

i think i never even used a terminal to install a browser and i dabbled with linux on and off for over a decade now. there was always a gui to install a browser. well, not on arch in 2014 but back then i never made it past a half broken desktop enviroment. so my point still stands technically.

I mean pirated FH6 works on Linux with Proton, too. So there isnt kernel level anti linux/cheat in place either way.

Nah, that used to be a solution a few years back if you had the patience to setup GPU-passthrough with a single or two GPUs. But these anticheat rootkits now detect a running VM and deny you service either way.

Dualbooting Windows 10 LTSC with massgrave activation seems to be the best option for now if you really nee…want a Windows installation with GPU acceleration. For Nongaming/Rendering tasks: Winboat.