Comment by mjr00
2 years ago
YotLD jokes aside, one of the big historical lock-ins for Windows has been gaming, but the work done on Proton for the Steam Deck has made Linux a viable option if the only thing keeping you on Windows is games. It's still not for your grandma, but I know a few gamers who have made the switch, largely due to how awful Windows 11 is, and they haven't regretted it.
My Windows partition, which ostensibly exists for gaming, sees little action these days.
Proton truly has made 90% of games I play awesome on Linux, not to mention that games are increasingly targetting it natively.
Did the same, after a year I decided I wanted the extra space and havent looked back. If a game doesnt run, well, I didnt need that game, personally.
The biggest problem with games not running well on Linux now seems to be the invasive anti-cheat malware that some of the big online titles demand. It says a lot about Windows and Linux as "secure" platforms that this concept exists at all on one of them but effectively doesn't on the other.
Sometimes games dont run, and im not tech savvy enough to press the issue, but it is well worth my piece of mind to be off windows.