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To clarify, I’m aware you can use Nvidia on Linux. This was a phrased this way because the driver issues you mention impact performance games under Linux.

And again, I understand Linux is your chosen OS — I’m happy you’re so happy. My question was why a person who is using WSL2 would want to run a game in Linux instead of inside Windows. I understand you can game in Linux. That’s not the question. The question is why would a person run a game inside Linux, which is running side-by-side Windows, run the game in that subsystem instead of just using Linux.

I didn’t know if there was a place where a game would get better performance in Linux, making that a better target.

I just don’t understand the criticism of doing something inside a subsystem that could be done just as well/better outside the subsystem. If you don’t want to use WSL2 or Windows or macOS or anything else, that’s fine. But for people who DO choose to use it, I don’t understand why “games inside Linux are slower inside of it” makes much sense.




The argument before was "WSL2 will become good for graphical applications" (which also means games). So I answered, that if you want to run games on Linux, you can as well do it straight on Linux running on your hardware without intermediaries. I.e. it wasn't about running games on Windows.




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