[Kim_Bruning]

I think it depends what games you play. Steam actually allows you to return a game if it doesn't run on your system (in fact they have a very generous return policy indeed). GOG is a bit more strict, and a bit more hit-and-miss, but also Mostly Works (tm).

The unifying factor is steam and/or heroic games launcher (and one or two others besides), which set up your system to run a particular game.

Most of the games I've bought in the past year or so Just Work (tm). Obviously YMMV.

When it comes to GOG, hilariously, sometimes installing the windows version _on linux_ is the easier option, what with wine/proton forming the universal compatibility layer.

I'm sort of wondering if we might evolve to a point where there's proton-for-windows, and then everyone can just target proton exclusively.