Vote with your money on where you want things to be in 5/10 years. If you keep buying games for windows no one will develop and sell for linux. MS had no power, it’s all in the consumers’ hands, but they just don’t want to do anything about it.
When did you try, and which genres? Out of all the 20+ games that I bought in the last two years, all of them were Gold or Platinum rank on ProtonDB. The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games.
I used it for about 3 months for Monster Hunter World with some occasional visual bugs and artifacts, just had to tweak some settings to go from 3 FPS to 60 FPS (seemed to only use my GPU if I selected a particular DirectX version). One day a patch dropped and it went back to 3 FPS. Couldn't find a remedy, so I installed windows. No more visual bugs and artifacts and no more tweaking settings to play the game.
Ah I mostly play World of Warcraft and Guilty Gear Strive, both of which work almost flawlessly, in my experience, on Linux. I definitely understand frustrations around things just breaking when new content drops, that did happen to me when Shadowlands released but was resolved pretty quickly. I'm on a Mac now (for unrelated reasons) where WoW is native.
if you're someone who is willing to invest time into researching regedit workarounds (which will eventually reset or cease to work), then looking into desktop linux is perfectly viable...and not theoretically, but practically perfect.
i used to do an enormous amount of Windows XP regedit tweaking and customization, using sysprep, rolling service packs into new ISOs, making use of https://ryanvm.net/forum/ scripts.
all of that has become practically impossible now. every update resets everything, regedits no longer work, and each update brings back the bloatware you've debloated using things like https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows.
the only recourse now is to disable TPM 2.0, which is a Win11+ requirement. or pirate that fabled LTSC windows edition because, you know, you can't actually buy it.
in 2020 after an unpreventable Win10 update fucked up my dual boot setup i finally called it quits and switched to EndevourOS (Arch) KDE/Plasma and haven't looked back; fuck Windows and its aggressive rent-seeking.
I have tried switching to Linux in the past and it was not for me. As upsetting as Microsoft’s recent decisions have been, it is not enough to make me change operating systems.
How about “My choice of operating system is not an indictment of my character”?
My choice to continue using Windows involves far more than me being lazy. For one thing, my job involves developing software specifically made for Windows desktops. I have also been using Windows for over 30 years. Quite frankly I’m insulted by the insinuation being made here.
Linux is great, but it’s not great for me as a daily driver. No amount of evangelizing is going to shame me into upending my digital life.
No insult intended. Your previous comment made it seem like it's too difficult or not enough to warrant the effort. Use the tools that make you happy, no diss intended.