>>2172Linux support for games is better than ever. The only things that don't work are things intentionally gimped to prevent running them outside of Windows. NT kernel level "anti-cheat" is the one that is the most trouble and the intrusive DRM.
wine is great. If you don't want to manually set it up there are front ends that do all the work for you. Steam's version of wine (proton) is really great too for most games. For games it has small issues with there are usually good work arounds and guides for them and those fixes typically get rolled into later versions of proton.
The only trouble I've had with games I play is one of them has a mod that requires a .dll file. Which won't work in proton no matter what I try. I probably need to put the .dll within the actual container. But I haven't been able to figure it out yet. It's no big deal most of the time. It's just an overlay and some extra features for only play like number of people on the server and being able to use custom pallets in-game that they can see.
For a lot of my games they actually run better in Gentoo+Steam+Proton/wine than they run on Windows 7/10 bare metal on the same machine. You don't even have to do a lot of leg work to pirate games for Linux now. Lots of groups offer bundles with everything you need already included.