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by qalmakka 1342 days ago
I was a big user of dual boot and VFIO, but thanks to the advent of Proton and the recent Wine improvements (DXVK, ...) I've found myself rebooting into Windows for gaming less and less over the course of the last few years. Sure, not everything works, but basically everything single player does with just a few hiccups.
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Have you considered just not playing the games that require Windows? There are _plenty_ of really great Linux games. If not, I'd love to know why. I'm not being polemic, I'm not a gamer, but simply avoiding games that don't run on Linux seems rather easy today.
> There are _plenty_ of really great Linux games. If not, I'd love to know why.

That's simply not true, there's a handful at best. There are plenty of Proton games, though.

There aren't that many good games released every year in general, much less for Linux specifically.
I also play those, indeed, but Steam + Proton works very well for a whole lot of titles without a hitch too, so that's a bonus.