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People want validation not advice, even if that advice could fix their problem.

From personal experience...

Real talk, Fortnite is the only remaining reason I still dual boot into Windows.
- They won't support Linux unless they have to. As long as people decide to play along with them then they'll continue to not support it. If you give up this game then eventually Linux will be supported.
  In my opinion, every game worth playing supports Linux. There are way too many games that I don't have time to play them, so I'll play the ones that respect their customer's choices. I'll ignore the ones that require us to install malware —whether that's kernel level anti-cheat or Windows.
- i haven't tried this but couldn't you use herioc ganes launcher? as sketeched out here https://www.aeanet.org/how-to-download-fortnite-on-steam-deck/#Step-by-Step_Guide_Downloading_and_Installing_Fortnite
minecraft bedrock was the only reason i am dual booting windows but thankfilly thanks to a blessing from a god, i wont be needing it for long
- You can play the android version in desktop mode with the Unofficial *nix Launcher.
- You can also play the Android release fine with Waydroid.
its technically possible to spoof a vm to run it.
shouldve been the other way around. who still plays fortnite
I'm surprised I don't see more discussion here of Apex Legends and how it had Linux support removed!
- And Battlefield 1
  At least EA let us keep 4....for now.
Just play on your phone...
You can pay it via cloud gaming for free with the app greenlight

I’ve always been a very fond gamer.

But W11 as an OS, the state surveillance style telemetry and some other recent developments surrounding MS made me largely ditch gaming in favour of Linux. I mean sure I’ll play a game here n there but I don’t feel like investing hours of my days into the next “big thing” anymore. Linux is where it’s at.

Why'd you have to ditch gaming? I play games all the time on Linux. Steam works just fine.
- Should have worded that differently.
  -W11 sucks so much I was gonna move to Linux regardless and that happens to coincide with a time in my life where I want to waste less time playing games.
  Steam has done something amazing, I hope GOG follows at some point.

I was in this camp until I actually have win11 a try. Now i my computer is super slow and all my games run like ass and I've spent hours trying to troubleshoot how to fix these issues and I legitimately believe that it would just be simpler to move to Linux because at least with Linux nobody is actively trying to prevent me from being able to fix any performance issues that arise.

This does not mean that any performance issue that arise will be fixable (unless you're one of those guys)
But yes, this is how I ended up using Linux. I spent weeks trying to fix a major visual glitch on Windows, and Debian got it right the first time. The app store sucked (even more than now), but installing things in cli was far easier than using Windows
- I am aware. I am also aware that I'll probably spend way more time than I'd like trying to fix issues. What I'm saying is that for me, Windows no longer has an advantage in that regard because it keeps doing stupid shit and has all kinds of performance problems that don't make any sense

I am definitely somebody who watched the first video, but not the second.

I get it. I hate a lot of things about Windows, but switching to Linux would prevent me from playing some games that I would want to play, and that trade-off is not worth it to me.

You can consider dual boot? I use Windows to play games only and use Linux for other things that need the computer
- I expect that there would be some switching cost every time I switch OS (such as the time to reboot and/or the mental adjustment to the interface) and gaming is the majority of what I do on my PC.
  So, I don't think it would be worth it if I used Windows for all gaming still. But I would maybe consider using Linux for everything except for specifically games that require Windows.
- The vast majority of games work fine on Linux. Try not switching sometime. You don't even need to reinstall them. Linux can read your Windows partition fine, do you just need to point whatever launcher to the same spot.
I finally booted windows because Expedition 33's performance in Linux was bad, only to realize it was the sane on windows.
Actually there's a game, the Alters, that crashed on my desktop Linux (works on deck) and had to play in windows. There was some workaround somewhere, but didn't try.
What games? The vast majority work fine.
The companies that don't let you choose your platform don't respect you. They won't support Linux until they're forced to. As long as you let them bully you they'll continue to not support user freedom. There are far too many games to play that I can't play them all, so I don't really care that a tiny handful of games aren't playable. They aren't worth playing until they learn to respect customers.
- I almost always am playing games with friends, so it depends on what they want to play as well. We generally rotate through different games at different times, and the choice depends on what we can find that everyone would enjoy. It can already be hard to do that sometimes, so removing more options could make it worse.
  Battlefield 6 is one of the ones we have been playing recently, so that one would require Windows (at least as a dual boot option). It's also hard to know what games might be the group preference in the future.

just fucking switch or shut up.

I'm not allowed to switch at work, may I please be issued a special dispensation to be displeased about it?
- no
  you can use WSL in windows
  it's still inside windows, and you can passthrough USB, block, etc. devices to it

I don't really "hate" windows, but I dislike it.

However I can't really move away from it.

I did so back in win 3.11 days, a while ago.