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!
If you don’t want to bother with Wine/Proton/etc. then I really don’t see the point of ever trying Linux in the first place (at least when it comes to gaming).
The Windows VM solution may have been OK a few years ago, when Wine was… Really not in its prime yet. But these days, practically everything runs fine under Wine or its several implementations (Lutris/HGL/Proton/whatever). And while there will always be some performance overhead due to the translation layer, it is going to be much, MUCH lighter than CPU overhead. Not to mention that kernel-level anticheats (such as e.g. Valorant’s) are simply not going to work in a VM.