I find that most Valve games run much better on Linux than they do in Windows. Whether any given game runs better in Linux or Windows is a coin flip, however I will grant that there are not many games that run well in Linux but are unplayable in Windows. The converse is definitely true; there are many games whose framerate drops over 50% when run in Linux. Some games even perform better running in WINE than they do using the native port, which is somewhat baffling.<p>Overall I&#x27;m somewhat surprised by painless gaming on Linux has become. I switched back to Linux on my personal computer after a number of years of primarily using Windows because of gaming. I thought it was going to be a pain point for me, however a few months later Steam announced the Steam Box and promoted Linux gaming heavily.<p>I (finally) have a beefy rig though, so perhaps Linux ports get bottle-necked more easily. I haven&#x27;t measured input latency or anything that would be relevant to the competitive CS scene, but the framerate is higher on Linux than it was on my (now gone) Windows partition.