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You can game on Linux for many years now. Windows is mostly mandatory if you play multiplayer games with anticheat





yea pong working on linux doesen’t equal to gaming working on linux. Most games won’t start or play worse.

You’re either trolling or simply unaware but Steam and Proton allows you to run quite a bit of the Steam library on Linux with good performance.

ive been playing elden ring fantastically on the steam deck. its the game of the year from a couple years back

You have been living under a rock. Wine and proton are significantly faster than native windows. With valve's partnership with Archlinux last year, it's going to get even better



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