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Just use open source. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. I’m a full stack developer and I’ve never given Microsoft a dime.
Well, truth be told, my gaming PC came with Windows and I did buy Flight Simulator but I felt dirty after and some of the silly airplane peripherals weren’t working right with Fedora so I kept it dual boot. That was before Steam Deck and Proton, though, so I should probably test it all again.
The steam deck is exactly what convinced me to give Linux a whirl on my main gaming PC again and honestly I regret not making this move way earlier.
Everything that runs on a steam deck should run on any Linux PC. This list of games recently crossed 18k.
So far I have zero regrets, performance of the games i've played to date is on par with what I was seeing on Windows, even with Nvidia's notoriously bad reputation for Linux support.
Proton is an absolutely bonkers development and Valve's doing legendary work with it's push for Linux.
I do have to end this by saying I don't do online gaming so I have not had to deal with anti-cheat bullshit that doesn't want to work on anything that's not Windows and 99.9 percent of my games exist in either Steam or GOG. (the latter of which is supported on Linux with the Heroic launcher)
The way it's looking now, I consider the chance of me migrating back to Windows on my private machines near zero. Games were the only thing keeping me on windows privately.