When I say they’re ‘not good,’ I mean they run slower. AMD and Intel GPUs perform nearly as well as they do on Windows, but Nvidia GPUs can suffer up to a 20% performance loss on Linux, depending on the game.

Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment. And yeah all what you said. But i had tried Linux for gaming like something 5-8 years ago, and the situation is so much better now.

Yeah NVIDIA GPUs, like mine, suck at Linux.

Nvidia user, i saw a 10-15% performance difference (maybe more in some games), some anti-cheat do not work, so i can not install these games. I used both Mint and Nobara with latest drivers running and proton-GE.

I’m in Windows 11. I have regret it, but after so many tweaks of the system, removing telemetries, changing menus, and other Windows shit, i had not the energy to move back to Windows 10.

Only OS change i am willing to make is to move to Linux, but gaming is not there yet, and am now trying to move from big proprietary companies to FOSS, so time is needed.

I bought an used RTX 3070 when they announced the RTX 40 series and AMD theirs with a 50€ difference. Gaming is slowly becoming a luxury, and now with the tariffs, and Nintendo trying to push games to 90€… Hello backlog.

Nah Steamdeck is a good Switch competitor but they gonna need a Steamdeck 2 to compete Switch 2. But with those absurd game prices steam will have a big advantage with less effort.

The question is how many of the Switch 1 buyers are Nintendo fans. Many, like me, bought Switch entering for 1st time to the Nintendo, but i am not consider myself a loyal mindless fan. With kids and families is harder though.

I will just skip Switch 2 and just play only in my PC like i always had. If they release a good Steam Deck that it is worthy, i will consider it. If the market slaps them and they return to reality, i will consider Switch 2 for 2026.

I think in ME3 i did Charge -> Nova, but i was mostly depended from my Squad to take down shields or trigger a detonation with the Charge. So probably is a no for new players.

I think is sentinel for Mass Effect 3. I don’t know if it works for the other two though. The idea is to spam skills to combo them and make them kaboom only to go aftee and finish the remaining in melee. Doesn’t work on insanity well ofc.

The Mass Effect Trilogy. And choose the melee class, don’t remember it’s name right now.

Hades is another one but rogue like game (don’t meets the health regen though).

The only Star Wars i can suggest is KOTOR, if you are ok playing old games.

If you can play Nintendo games, Zelda BoTW, TOTK or link’s awakening (2019).

I don’t know. I haven’t any problems in 572.60 so far in my RTX 3070. Oh they released another one yesterday. What the hell is happening…

From their report report :

[ For years we’ve seen an encouraging pattern. Hit new releases are excellent at generating new first-time purchasers, and we’ve tried to build many platform features to encourage those new users to stick around, find more great games, and play with friends. To gather data illustrating the effectiveness of that approach, we went all the way back to 2023 and identified the biggest 20 releases of that year. We looked at every new first-time purchaser generated by those products (that is, an account making a purchase, or redeeming a Steam key, for the first time) for a total of 1.7 million new users. Then we followed that cohort of new users. The stats below represent what those players did from January 2024 through early March 2025.
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That cohort of players has gone on to spend $20 million on in-game transactions across hundreds of other games—plus another $73 million on premium games and DLC across thousands more products. ]

So they are not average gamers, more like new blood in steam, and the numbers are for money they spent additional after the reason they came to steam.

Wait a moment. Oblivion is turning 20 years old ??? 😥