Like the title says, what’s the main difference in performance between gaming on a windows VM with gpu passthrough on linux vs windows installed the usual way on bare metal? Talking about steam games and not online multiplayer with anti-cheat.
Because i would really like to get rid of my windows dual boot but for the moment i don’t want to get into linux gaming with proton etc…
Also, i would use this VM for other windows-exclusive softwares.
Thank you in advance!
May I ask why? If you’re not going to play games with anti cheat I see absolutely no reason for you to go through all the hassle of setting up a VM with GPU passthrough when Proton works as well as it does.
I was in the same scenario when I tried to swap to Linux. I had a deal breaker program that I needed Windows to run. For me, that was Minecraft (For Windows) Bedrock with RTX
Had been involved with the developers of BetterRTX for a while before that so no access to that version of the game was not an option for me. Really don’t enjoy dual booting
The responses I got when reaching out to the Linux community to find ways to get it working on Linux?
“Just play Java. Java > Bedrock anyways”
“You can play Bedrock on Linux” (Android, not RTX compatible)
Whatever their reason for wanting to do so is, presume they hit a similar brick wall on a deal breaker for them and that they have done at least some research on the matter finding no solutions