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I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
Same. I just don't bother with games that don't run on Linux anymore. I've got so many games, it's not a big deal if I can't play some even if I did pay for them.
For a little over a year now, "deck verified" directly controls my purchases lol. The markets so saturated and there are so many great games that either directly run under Linux, or run perfect with proton. I just skip the titles that don't. So far, all my must play games work. Pound sand, shit developers and windows.
A great deal of non-deck verified games also work out of the box. ProtonDB has good information about how well something will run on Linux.
Even the game's page on steam is usually useful. If you click on details in the deck verified page it tells you exactly why it's not verified. Most of the time it's something like not selecting the deck's screen resolution by default, or needing the keyboard to enter a character's name.
It's tried, I have a lot installed. But it's just so easy with the verified ones when it all just works with minimal mucking around
I do all my gaming on linux now. I consciously stopped playing online competitive games several years ago already, because I found that they stressed me out more than they entertained me, so I have no problem with most of those not working on linux.
Getting away from those felt as much of a relief as getting away from Windows was, so literally win-win for me.
Other than first-party Nintendo games, I do all my gaming on Linux