Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I’ve been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.
Turns out it just… works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I’m using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can’t undervolt my card everything is great.
I switched to Mint in January and it’s been great. Most games just work straight out of Steam. I have Skyrim modded to an insane level and it can be a little finicky but works.
What really cemented it for me was when I wanted to run an old 32-bit weather software package. I decided to try adding it to Steam, and it…just worked. Like native.