To provide some additional anecdotes to support jul's comment. I've personally been experiencing better performance than windows even with nvidia. Though it does vary per game, with the occasional workaround especially when going outside the realm of plug and play to mod games.
I'd say most games are great, the "10% low" games are still good, and the "1% lows" where things just don't work are pretty rare but sometimes there is a fix. Proton.db is a good resource for those instances.
And being honest... windows has those moments too, people just ignore them because windows is the ubiquitous gaming OS.
It's a lot better than when I had last "tried" and it may be more impactful to bring up that this time I haven't gone back even once, and I actually went ahead and pulled the plug on my windows partition.
Linux is just better now, there's one thing windows had but I gave it up. Linux is just better for most things now and to make that win even better.. windows has increasingly been becoming worse than itself.
I'm highly proficient in a much more self gratifying field than I was in just ~2 years ago, so I'd probably intimidate just 2 year younger me, let alone 4 or 7 year younger me.
My GF is a dysphoria girl, she transitioned because of intense dysphoria, I'm kinda half-and-half in that there were/are parts of me I get bad dysphoria about, but also parts of me that were/are not and my decision to transitioned was also based on feelings of euphoria (though oddly transitioning actually kinda adjusted my dysphoria dials from what they were originally). It sounds like you could be one of us that doesn't have dysphoria, but instead would just feel better transitioning.
You have a lot of thoughts of a trans girl, or at least of a gender fluid or non-binary person fwiw. Be the u that makes u comfy.
For me that meant transitioning, for u, maybe just being comf as you are?
Yeah it's "too late" for me too, I'm locked in, and if there was a pill that did that I'd have some serious ethical concerns regardless. What I mean is more if I could have decided before being born.
While I love the trans community and all my friends I've made through being trans.. I'd rather just be cis, even cis as my birth sex. Being trans isn't a choice, if it was I would not be trans, it's hard, very hard, and society makes the difficulty 10x worse.
Google is garbage for everything, the only thing google still has that I like is youtube and the very moment there is a decent alternative for me I'm gone. Here's the AI I used's summary
I particularly like that it shows it's sources so I can easily fact check the summary and use the source if I need it.
Game companies have definitely done their best to try and make multiplayer gaming more and more lonely. I settled in quick to single player cause at least I could have fun and not simultaneously be lonely and dominated by some hyper competitive toxic game matched tryharding BS.
It feels good physically, but sex is something much more emotionally, mentally, and socially important to me. It fulfills an intense desire for sexual intimacy and emotional bonding. I love to be touched, to intensely desire, and that intense desire matched by another for me. Feelings of fire and lightning deep inside, and bruises on the outside, pain, crying, and for a time my mind blank with bliss. For me, sexuality is a defining feature, I would not be me otherwise..
I would say however, if you are asexual and just don't have these desires you aren't missing out on much. Most of the benefits are "I get my needs fulfilled," and if you live a satisfying life without having those needs to fill then there is not much lost, and maybe even something to gain.
To provide some additional anecdotes to support jul's comment. I've personally been experiencing better performance than windows even with nvidia. Though it does vary per game, with the occasional workaround especially when going outside the realm of plug and play to mod games.
I'd say most games are great, the "10% low" games are still good, and the "1% lows" where things just don't work are pretty rare but sometimes there is a fix. Proton.db is a good resource for those instances.
And being honest... windows has those moments too, people just ignore them because windows is the ubiquitous gaming OS.
It's a lot better than when I had last "tried" and it may be more impactful to bring up that this time I haven't gone back even once, and I actually went ahead and pulled the plug on my windows partition.
Linux is just better now, there's one thing windows had but I gave it up. Linux is just better for most things now and to make that win even better.. windows has increasingly been becoming worse than itself.