They could just station them in Canada like the US stations theirs in NATO countries. You know, in case Russia invades Canada cough cough.

What if the UK or France “lent” a few of theirs? They have plenty.

Yep!

And this is true for many Linux native games in general. You can’t assume the native version will even be in the same ballpark as the proton path, you just have to try and see.

Sometimes there is a huge advantage for native Linux, too. Modded Minecraft and Starsector (both Java and OpenGL on all platforms) are the concrete examples I personally tested, where the simulation and frame rate are, similarly, massively faster in Linux than Windows.

I tried heavily modded and almost vanilla, just with harmony and DBH. I did not try vanilla Stellaris, but modding is all just text scripting, so it’s not possible to change to the underlying engine.

The problem seems fairly evident to me: the Linux versions of the engines fall back to OpenGL and are poorly supported by the devs, while the dx9 (now dx11 for Stellaris) backends receive the optimizations.

Modded, both cases.

Even worse, TPS. Days chug along in Linux compared to Windows, along the lines of a 1.5x slowdown.

FPS spikes are much worse, too. I tested both extensively on the same saves, using their native performance tools (the perf commands in stellaris and DPA in Rimworld).

Depends how familiar with disk partitioning you already are, but it’s generally not that bad. Shrink your windows partition, create a new ntfs partition in windows, and install Linux. Pretty much every major installer has an option to preserve Windows.

I guess this is the thing with Linux, at various levels it skews DIY and more time intense. And honestly the market seems to be bifurcating between that and the opposite extreme: Android/iOS, which many use as their main PCs now.

Consider this: why do you have 2TB of games installed?

IDK what your gaming habits are, but I find myself bouncing between a few at most, 1 big AAA at most, and found keeping the rest… to be blunt, data hoarding.

I suppose the only exception is modded setups, it even then I always redo them anyway since the base games, modding frameworks and mods get updated over time.

You can redownload what you use, progressively.

This is not always true. I measured that the Proton version of Rimworld and Stellaris, for instance, are massively faster than the Linux one.

What I do is dual boot Windows/Linux and have them share big NTFS partitions for bulk data they can both access.

You could try getting autocad running?

https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux#fusion-360---linux-wine-version

But TBH, neutering Windows down to a “software tool” to the point I could wipe it and not really care, and spending most of my desktop time on Linux, has been wonderful.

Depends what you do on your computer.

Macs are amazing and unique and, at the same time, extremely infuriating and very expensive.

Which is default? Strict?

That’s what matters because it’s what 95% of people are using.