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Preface: I'm now completely moved over to nixos and installing a bloody windows drive.
NaturalPoint did some nasty stuff to opentrack and we all suffered.
TLDR proprietary devices prefer proprietary drivers. Additionally any directX game that strains hardware pretty much requires windows or you pay in framerate. Experimental wine and proton can lose a lot of performance. Thankfully more development teams are supporting vulkan and native linux.