It depends on the game, but Steam proton is pretty good.

This site is incredibly helpful.

The state of gaming on Linux isn't perfect, but it is very, very good right now. The best it has ever been by far. The Steam Deck uses Linux, and Valve has their people dumping new features upstream into Linux for everyone to use.

Isn’t even the steam deck Linux nowadays?

One solution is just to stop gaming and start playing around with computers for fun.

Why is this getting down voted??

I could play Witchfire on day one, an early access game on the Epic Game Store, so probably the only games you cant play now are the online ones, but there are some you can.

I started gaming after I switched to Linux, so all of my gaming is Linux-based. It helps that I use emulators for everything, and Linux has excellent emulators. When I built my new computer and discovered I could emulate a Switch at a playable speed, it floored me.

I wanna use Linux, but last time I tried I had so many issues that it made it almost impossible to be productive. There are so many possible variations of a setup that trying to find answers either resulted in incorrect or just downright combative responses