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A comic
Windows OS: “We have a brand new feature called Windows Recall that you might like!”
Guy: “Oh boy! What does it do?”
Windows: “It helps you find anything you’ve seen on your PC by using clues you give or by letting you scroll through your past activity!”
Guy: “Wow! How does this tech work?”
Windows: “Our Windows AI constantly takes pictures of your screen and saves all that data”
I’ve been trying to make the switch for years and just recently decided to bite the bullet when I replaced some hardware, going linux-only. There’s surprisingly few games that don’t work in Linux, even if they require a bit of tinkering to get there. Especially if you play mostly indie games (since DRM and anti-cheat seem to be a big reason for many of the ones that don’t work in Linux). My feeling is that there’s enough games out there (and unplayed ones in my library, even) that if I can’t play a few AAA titles on Linux, I can just use that as a reason to skip them entirely.
Edit: If you’re playing Steam games, you need to check “Enable Steam Play for all other titles” in Settings -> Compatibility. This makes it try to use Proton to play things that it hasn’t verified will work, which works for most things.
For non-Steam games, if you use Lutris, it can largely handle installation including compatibility layers via WINE or whatever else for you. Makes the process very painless.
One of those two use cases apply to about 95% of games I’ve tried, including stuff like old games from GoG (even DOS games that use GoG-supplied compatibility tools run fine, surprisingly).
Yeah I’ve been using Bazzite which has been the most idiot-proof distro I’ve been able to find. It does work great overall but there are of course a handful of easy anti cheat games that gum things up and a few games that I play most that simply doesn’t get the same performance (unfortunately). GranBlue Fantasy Relink for example runs at the 120 cap in just about every quest with a few dips in the town hub but through proton drops to 40fps when all gears are flying and stutters wildly without warning. Ghost of Tsushima which I’ve been grinding it solid overall but does give me some weird physics things flashing in my eyes here and there (enough to put up with though if I didn’t have other options). Overall I do love it and boot into Linux as long as I know that I’m going to be playing a game that doesn’t have issues or just plan on web browsing, I just can’t quite let go of stupid windows.