On windows I was running Minecraft1.19, sodium + iris complementary shaders on the high preset setting, render distance 20ish, and was always at least 60fps, but usually in the 70-85 range, but now on Linux(Obuntu), exact same set up, turned down the medium preset, and render distance set to 12, simulation set to 8, I’m in the 45-60 range with dips down to 30. Chatgbt had me switch the Java version I was running(from Java 17 to 21), turn off vsync in Minecraft and OpenGL settings, I’m running a Nvidea 1080 card, anything other options I got

Yesterday a new Windows Docker like application called WinBoat was released.

Looks very good if you need to run apps in a Windows environment.
It's different than Wine and Bottles as you get a full Windows environment via Browser.
It's quite easy to install with the installing guide you get on the app's welcome page.

There is no USB Passthrough, just as an experimental, so I tried to install my Logitech G923 Trueforce but it's not working at the moment but I'm still testing.
Not sure if it can help for gaming in general but I'm putting it here in case someone needs something like this.

Just wanted to let you know of this new thing.

Cheers.

So I upgraded my Thinkpad from 8 to 16gb of ram and since I have integrated graphics it uses my ram not VRAM.. soo where to install Minecraft on fedora gnome and will there be a difference now that I've upgraded the ram?

Lately, I had a big dummy moment when setting up games through Wine. They worked on my previous build but they acted up on my new one. For instance, GTA San Andreas refused to play the opening movies or Morrowind couldn't start, unable to play music.

I tried many things until I found out the issue was actually on the Linux side - when setting up a new PC, I forgot to install the 32-bit libraries for compatibility. Particularly GStreamer plugins. Old games and even recent titles depend on those. Just a quickie I wanted to share, might be useful to some.