[Nacraile]

There are lots of games that run on linux these days. Personally, my wishlist has a deep enough backlog of linux-supporting games that there's very little risk I'll ever be "forced" to dip into the windows-only portion of the list.

For those times when I really just want to play a specific game that's Windows-only, dual-boot works great. I couldn't care less if telemetry tells Microsoft I start my PC every few months to play a few games ;)

I'm pretty skeptical that there are many real cases where eliminating Windows as a primary OS is a matter of "can't" and not "don't care enough to tolerate an occasional minor inconvenience". The latter case gets little sympathy when they complain about Microsoft's bad behavior.

[t-writescode]

Unfortunately, many modern shooters use anti-cheat software that stops you from running them in Linux. They're my biggest barrier to being full Linux all the time.

[bzb3]

People don't want to play whatever is on Linux, they want to play what they want to play.

[welterde]

We are not talking about just a few games as in the pre-steam days, but ~30% of all games on steam have native ports for linux now and over 70% can be played with proton by now.

And in the end you will always have to make a choice what games to play, since not everyone owns every console ever (which have exclusive titles) or the latest and greatest hardware to play the very latest AAA titles (quite a few of which have native linux ports by now)

[sergeykish]

Out of curiosity I've installed Steam and checked featured game. Linux version has not started (not Ubuntu here) but Proton version worked.

Now if Steam had productivity applications [1] and they had Proton version (not yet).

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/software/

[2] https://www.protondb.com/

[Shared404]

Pretty much every Steam game except multiplayer focused games works in Linux now.

It's a high enough percentage that I don't really consider what OS it was built for before buying almost any game.