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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/tarknats on 2023-10-10 19:06:54.

This is one of those “linux is great” posts, apologies if that’s not your thing. I only started using Linux full time 2-3 years ago in late 2020. It started with Solus and I ended up on a manually installed Arch by now. At the time the Steam Deck was just being announced and there were only a handful of properly relevant online games that worked with Proton or native. When a game turned out to work, I’d commit to it regardless of my interest just because it was so nice and surreal to see gaming like that on Linux. Now in 2023 there is only one game that I actively would like to play that doesn’t work on Linux: Escape from Tarkov. Everything else works now. Hell Let Loose working as of this month marks the end of an era for me. When it comes to which OS is better in terms of gaming performance I do not know because I’ve never compared them and I don’t care because I have high end hardware anyway.

I used to see using Linux as my little escapade just to see how long I last here, with Windows always being there as the “fallback” option “eh whatever if I can’t play something I’ll just go back to windows” but that idea has flipped entirely on its head. Linux is now a fully capable gaming OS and it happened right before my eyes. I guess I just picked the right time to switch, and Valve is to thank for most of this, getting the word of Proton out to developers. Now, the “fallback” option of Windows is completely gone to me, my Arch installation can do everything I used to do on Windows but better. A free OS that can play almost any game ever released, who’d’a thought?