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It depends. Do you play stuff with kernel level anticheat? If no, then the current state of Linux gaming is, by and large as good as, and occasionally better than, Windows - even on games that don't run natively.
Proton is astounding, and the state of Wine is amazing compared to 10 years ago (and it wasn't bad then). Get Bottles or Play on Linux going, plus Steam, and there's very little you can't do…
Except kernel level anticheat.
(To be 100% transparent, there are other issues. I have a couple games I can't get to run reliability, but they're all obscure edge cases. But like 90% of stuff without anticheat just works at this point.)
Edit: proofreading
EAC works in Proton, as long as the developer takes the time to configure it right.
Isn't it even more or less just a checkbox for them (game developers) to enable? That's what I read when I first heard about it getting Linux compatibility, but maybe it was hyperbole.
Its not exactly a checkbox. Basically, the developer has to choose the right version of the EAC library to include in their build. Older versions didn't support Linux. And with the new library versions there is the "with Linux support" and "without Linux support" varients.
Some games still build with the older version for compatibility reasons, some will stick with the older version for spite reasons. Some games update to the new version but use the non-linux-support new version.
To be fair I could not even get Valorant running on Windows. Anti cheat like that is complete and utter bs and will make me never play any game with it. Just like I don't buy a game until they remove Denuvo.
I wouldn't buy a game that uses Denuvo even if I was running Windows. That stuff's basically malware.
I haven't used proton recently because I replaced my Linux laptop with a Windows one (changed jobs, didn't need it anymore). But when I did play games with Proton a lot, around 2020, I sometimes had issues with cutscenes not showing at all. Just black screens for cutscenes on some games. Did that get fixed?
This can usually be fixed by using GE-Proton.