I've used "Linux for work" and "Windows for gaming" for a long time, about twenty years now. Got fed up with Windows shitting itself on a regular basis, and made myself a new year's resolution to try Linux-only gaming for a bit, see if it would work for me, and I never went back. That was in 2021, and it's just been getting better and better.

Linux Mint has always been an easy install, and putting Steam on top to get Proton is pretty trivial. A few things have made an amazing difference:

• installing the official NVidia drivers used to be a pain in the arse. Download them, stop your display manager, blacklist Nouveau, install them from the command line, restart and hope for the best. Awful. I've gone fully AMD, but I understand they're pretty much a non-issue now.

• Proton keeps getting better and better. Seriously, they fix compatibility with about 99% of the games that were broken every year, basically everything runs now. Maybe leave off buying anything with a tech-demo engine for a week, and accept that you won't be playing stuff with certain anti-cheat, and it's all good.

• DXVK gets overlooked, but it's amazing. Basically frame-for-frame with Windows on every game, and on some it's better as it fixes intrusive stutter by precompiling. Can't argue with that.