From what I’ve read, it seems to be a compromise to me. I imagine the dev team didn’t want to do it but compromised with the publisher and in reality they probably don’t want you to buy the dlc, as it defeats some of the design decisions. There’s a good pcmag article detailing the dlc and how impactful it is. My guess is that the general opinion of any reviewers would remain the same regardless (with the context of the pcmag article).
There are places in the city that are worse than others for performance but I’ve only ever noticed stutters and the like while driving. Do you use power utils? I don’t have an overclock but I make sure the governor is set to performance. Could just be luck on my end though.
I’ve been playing cyberpunk a lot on both my pc and deck. I thought that it would be a way worse experience going from desktop to handheld, however, it really is a decent experience. I’ve had the same luck with other games as well. Cyberpunk specifically runs avg 40/50 after I installed CryoUtilities and changed the vram buffer (for those who are curious).
You need Windows installed first, set up your partitions, then install Linux. You could backup your data and then restore it. That’s the easiest way if you choose not to use a windows vm.
It’s easy to recover… if you’re on site.