Linux

Currently playing Pokémon Luminescent Platinum on Linux.

I've clocked well over 100 hours on Snowrunner in Steam Games, and now started Red Dead Redemption 2. I mainly play simulators, and many of the fames are actually Windows games, but Steam with Proton seems to be handling them just fine.

Seems pretty great to me. Yes, it is and will probably always be at least a bit worse than on windows, but definitely not enough to actually use windows. I'm really happy with the way it's going. The enjoyment linux brings for me FAR outweighs the cons. That is not gonna be the case for everyone and that's fine too.

Oh yes, there are gamers. I play Apex, Titanfall 2, Hunt Showdown. Sometimes Overwatch.

Very few games have not worked at all. R6Siege is a popular stickler that still doesn't work (even though it could if the devs let it, it starts up and runs training just fine).

I completely switched to Linux in 2015. I'd definitely call myself a gamer. I don't buy AAA games at release too often, but I sometimes do. I play games for several hours a week. So yeah, probably that makes me a gamer. Nowadays gaming on Linux works great 80-90% of the time. Proton on Steam has massively improved the experience. The only stuff that still regularly causes problems are anti-cheat systems for some multiplayer games. Otherwise gaming on Linux feels almost the same as on Windows.

I do a bit of coding but I mostly use my pc to game tbh hahaha, Deep rock Galactic is what I'm obsessed with right now

@s804 consider subbing to /m/linux_gaming

I am both. And I have to say while many games with steam are download and play depending on your system os and gpu you will have various degrees of tinkering in order to get stuff running.

You either have to accept that you can't play every game or spend a lot of time getting them to work.

And multiplayer anti cheat games are very few that work.

I play on linux smfrom 5 years more or less, as it is my daily driver. I have a laptop with nvidia gpu and woth OopOS I have no problem. Stema for steam games, heroic for epic and gog and lutris for all the other. I play exclusively single player, if a need some multiplayer games I have a dual bot, but I used it like 2 times in 5 years. For now the only game that gave me a lot of truble was Shadow of the Tomb Raider from Epic. I had to use "alternative way" for having it to start.

I'm no hardcore gamer but game a lot.
I'm running Nobara KDE, almost any games I throw at it work with no tinkering. Just this afternoon I installed Lies of P demo from Steam, it worked OTT with zero glitch. I have a SSD with Win11 I haven't run in months lol.

I used to dual boot Linux & Windows, but these days, gaming on Linux works just fine. Granted, I don't play any hardcore multiplayer games that might have iffy anticheat or anything, but even modern games work with little to no issue.