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Yeah I switched to Linux about a month ago now and so far every game I've tried has worked flawlessly.
A whole month? You must've tried at least a dozen games
Pack em up boys, all games work in Linux
I've been Linux-only for something like 15 years, which is before Steam ever came to Linux. Over the past 5-ish years, my game selection has gone from "most games will work if I tinker" to "most games just work w/ no effort needed."
I've completed well over a hundred games on Linux, many of those AAA, "Windows-only" games, and I've played over a hundred more. The last time I had to do any kind of tinkering was for a janky old game, but most newer titles just work.
If you don't need games w/ anticheat, Steam on Linux works incredibly well.
While it's true I haven't personally tried more than about a dozen of my games I will point out that 1) that covers a wide swath of genres, publishers, and game engines, and 2) I ran my entire library of several thousand games through protondb before hand to have some idea of what I was in for and out of all those thousands less than 10 reported as not functioning. Of the ones that wouldn't work most actually can run, but the publishers are banning people who play under Linux. The most notable from that list would be Destiny 2 and GTA 5. So yes greater than 90% of all games run fine in Linux these days either straight out of the box or with simple configuration tweaks.