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Its still fucking embarrassing for windows
Not really. Games almost always have some bottleneck and maybe on proton a specific system call is faster. A translation layer doesn't have much of an performance impact if the individual translations are as fast as native.
The great performance speaks more to the quality of wine, dxvk, vkd3d and other tools developed by very skilled individuals.