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Compared to when I started with Linux 21 years ago, we are absolutely spoiled with games that work well today.
Gaming on Linux wasn't really that much worse back then. This is just reaction to Proton propaganda. Proton didn't even fix the frame timing issues that caused rhythm games to be near unplayable or racing games with time trials to be unbeatable (imagine spending hours on an impossible to beat track). -Wine devs fixed that so very recently that many probably aren't even on that fix yet!
And Microsoft is constantly coming out with newer technologies that Linux will never keep up with or come out with on their own from 'volunteers'.
If you want to play modern games, there's no reason to not use Windows. There are reasons to not use Linux.
I'm glad you had much better luck than I did, because playing games with Wine always worked like shit in my experience. It was occasionally an option that made the game playable at all, and very occasionally it would work flawlessly and all would be astounded, but the vast majority of the time I had little to no success. Maybe I just sucked.
Whereas these days I hit the play button on Steam and it works 100% of the time, in my experience. I basically only ever play games with friends online, and none of them even knew that I'd switched from Windows to Linux at some point in the middle.
I think we're different kinds of gamers, though, because you said Wine recently fixed a frame timing issue that made rhythm games and racing games playable after they'd been unplayable forever... but I don't care about that at all. I don't play those games, and those were never the problems I had in the dark ages, but I'm glad you're all good now too!
Absolutely, any semi decent game that was playable, even if it had some glitches, was AMAZING.
Not everyone uses Steam, and Steam does a lot of stuff that Proton does not.
Proton is made by Valve for playing Windows games on Steam and Steam Deck.
It seems logical that it works best for the platform it was designed for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)