Hey all! Long time linux user here, but over the past few years I've been gaming mainly on windows because of small little issues and being too lazy to swap between Operating Systems and just sticking with windows where everything "works" (allegedly). With Dead by Daylight finally getting deck verified a few months ago, and that being the main thing holding me back, I have finally 100% switched to linux. Not a single windows pc in my house anymore.

It hasn't been a completely smooth transition, honestly garuda has kind of been bad error wise, with their always being a mole for me to whack to have a "perfect system". I met my best friend on apex, and we play pretty regularly. While honestly it's up in the air if apex will even launch, or force log me out when I try to log on to the game and sometimes even crash my plasma session, forcing a reboot randomly whenever I launch the game...

That being said, I was messing with apex and trying to get the most out of my 8th gen i7 and RX 6400. I set up LatencyFlex, MangoHud, TearFree and did something I found on the arch wiki that supposedly lowers input latency. The difference has been night and day compared to windows. I've never had the game running this smoothly on hardware I own. My frametime graph is a straight line thanks to MangoHud's frame limiter, latency is non existent thanks to LatencyFlex, and I have yet to see a tear or feel delayed with TearFree on. Honestly, it feels exactly like I'm playing on my friend's super computer on a optiplex build I put together for less than $300 a year ago. My aim is the best it's ever been despite my mousepad being the size of a postage stamp at the moment. While I wouldn't recommend linux to a newbie to run full time, the headaches have been worth it to have the game running this immaculately. I would never have so many options and such a fine degree of control in windows. If you have a low end system it is the way to squeeze performance out of it, in my humble opinion. Let me know how you've been fairing on linux in the comments.