It can be hit or miss from game to game, check out protondb.com if you're ever having problems getting a game to work, sometimes there's small tweaks you need to do. Some stuff that uses anti cheat doesn't work as well, like Valorant or Fortnite. I've been gaming on Linux primarily for years though and it's never been better.

and to my surprise everything seems good! (knock on wood)

After a few aborted attempts to switch to Linux, over the years, that has been exactly the vibe of my latest journey.

"So this all just works now?" has been my repeated surprised thought.

Standard disclaimer: I don't have any hardware by Nvidia. Not by choice, I was just feeling broke when Nvidia got hot.

I just edited my comment with both and even viewing it through your Piefed instance only the ! community@instance style renders as a link.