[ajvs]

And this is due to Valve's big investments in Proton, Steam Deck and the new Steam hardware to get game compatibility working from both the Linux/Wine side as well as making game developers aim for compatibility.

[gf000]

One part of it. The other (and arguably bigger in some way) part are drivers (Nvidia, amd, Intel) that improved a great deal over the years.

[giancarlostoro]

Kind of helps that most AI work happens on Linux too. ;)

[MegaDeKay]

They've been supporting KDE as well for years now.