It's about incremental improvements. Proton: game computability and performance. kernel: video card drivers optimization.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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I'm only getting improvements as time goes on, they're incremental so it can be a bit hard to notice from day to day. Overall it's a very solid experience so far.
Yeah it's not like you'll notice a huge difference, unless your specific game starts/stops working. Otherwise incremental fixes to dx12 or embedded video playback is kind of elementary. For example, Spyro Reignited Trilogy in particular seems to break / get fixed periodically, possibly due to the way they did cutscenes in that game.
The biggest thing i've noticed with proton updates is I no longer have to hunt down specific proton versions, or use GE Proton anymore, or even use launch arguments
Every game I've played just runs flawlessly with proton experimental now.
I'm not noticing much difference, if any. But I'm playing games that have been stable and well established as deck compatible, so maybe I'm not the best example.
Edit: I do have and use steam on my laptop, just not often enough to merit an opinion
You after something specific? I installed steam in a old ass desktop last week, got factorio running lickety split and have hardly seen daylight since
Factorio is linux native though ;)
Maybe someday HDR and FSR 4.# will be enabled/work out of box on supported games without Gamescope or steam launch property tweaking. 🥹
I think that's currently a Linux gamer tax.