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Native is always better, but Proton (what's used by steam OS to run windows games) has worked for me for every title I've tried (even some small indie titles)... Sometimes graphics settings can be inconsistent, but I'd say it's a pretty safe bet if you're using an established engine it will just work with Proton
That is my experience too, I guess some Linux builds are just poorly optimized in comparison to the Windows ones.
Valve's engineers did a wonderful job with Proton honestly