@freemo
I was a pretty hardcore Linux user for 6 or seven years. I pretty much defaulted back to Mac and Windows lately, though. ("Lately" being the last 8 years or so.)

One of the reasons I haven't used Linux is that I do like to play games from time to time, and there was very little for that platform. Are you saying that you can run most gaming libraries under wine now?!?
@trinsec @sergeant

@IAmErik @trinsec @sergeant

Yes most games run well on linux now, its a fork of wine called proton and steam comes with it fully integrated. So you can play most games on linux now with very little fuss.

@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Not quite 'most' yet, but it's getting pushed hard. You can check per game what the status is. There's fair amount of 'Verified' games for the Steam Deck, those you can usually count on supporting Linux. (Some 'verified' seem to be sketchy though, but majority should be fine)
At least 'verified' is in the thousands now.

@trinsec @IAmErik @sergeant

In my expiernce of running games about 80% work perfectly, 95% work with rare glitches (a crash every 10 hours or somethibg), and 97% work with some glitchyness but playable...

@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Depends on the games, of course. I'd say checking the game profile pages on Steam might be helpful to see at a glance whether it is 'definitely supported' to 'Maybe I have to tweak things'.

@trinsec @IAmErik @sergeant

Proton db is the place to check, not steam... but youll be hard pressed to find a game on there listed as not working at all