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Gaming is and will always be the reason for majority of people. There was some incredible progress, but if I can't play everything I own on Linux, I won't switch. This comes from a guy who loves his Steam Deck.
For me, gaming was a requirement, but I had enough of Windows and switched to Bazzite (Gaming centric preloaded Fedora Linux).
It's really only kernel level anti-cheat games (Apex Legends, Valorant, Rainbow 6, etc.) that are incompatible now. If you're a co-op or single player gamer, I haven't had an issue.
Of the current 1000 top played games, 90% are playable ProtonDB. Steam's playable rating is overly cautious in it's assessment.
Proton db is straight up unreliable. Plenty of "compatible" games still require huge amounts of tinkering.
The latest fully compatible game for me PoE2 is missing 4k for me, missing HDR, vrr, and a bunch of other shit.
Path of exile 2 just works though? It even has a vulkan renderer.
That depends on the compositor you're using, support is still relatively new but it works just fine on GNOME and KDE.
🤷♂️ not for me, can't even launch in deck mode, only from gnome
I don't know what "deck mode" is. I'm using gnome with proton-ge, wine-wayland and it works out of the box if that helps.