The steam deck has changed the game (badum-tish!) for compatibility. A huge amount of games now run on Linux through wine / proton now.

You may have heard of this little project called Steam.

A lot runs native, in steam for example

Quite good actually, once someone takes the time to explain you the pair of extra steps no one mentions because the "they'll figure it out" philosophy of Linux.

I will dig in my inbox history and try to find the post that taught me how to do it.

I've been daily driving linux for two years. Just upgraded to Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04LTS from 24.04LTS, I edit video, stream game video, and found nothing I need to work that doesn't. Proton has been a game changer. Right before the upgrade I shrunk my windows partition to around 500 gb on my 4tb nvme after uninstalling all the games and most of the utilities on it.

I ran WoW back around 2005 on Linux but it was constantly breaking and a lot of stuff didn't work right or wouldn't stay working. I have dabbled here and there over the years but always had problems come up.

I'm not a gamer myself but Bazzite seems to do a hell of a job there