Windows 10 is not end of life yet, so you have some time before you have to leave win64. Valve is leading the way in finally getting linux homogeneous enough to act as an actual desktop operating system for gaming, but it isn't quite there yet. Close, but some games still require tweaking, and games that use anti-cheat are hit or miss.
I'm never going to use 11, either, so I'm in the same boat you are.
The only games I cannot play on Linux are Destiny 2 and Escape from Tarkov, and that's because of their implementation of BattlEye, other BattlEye games work fine. Not that I even want to play destiny anymore.
Over half the games in the top 1000 are at least gold or better and less than 50 are considered "bonked" with pretty much every one of them either having EAC or BattleEye.
Far more viable than it used to be. Steam's Proton tool makes it possible to play many Windows games with minimal tweaking. It's not perfect, but it's nice to be able to game without a million Windows processes running in the background, eating up your CPU.
Depends on the game. Anything modern that supports vulkan for rendering is really well supported. There are things like World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Baldur’s Gate 3, Witcher 3, etc., which play flawlessly.
So how viable is Linux as an alternative if you game on your PC?
Windows 10 is not end of life yet, so you have some time before you have to leave win64. Valve is leading the way in finally getting linux homogeneous enough to act as an actual desktop operating system for gaming, but it isn't quite there yet. Close, but some games still require tweaking, and games that use anti-cheat are hit or miss.
I'm never going to use 11, either, so I'm in the same boat you are.
The only games I cannot play on Linux are Destiny 2 and Escape from Tarkov, and that's because of their implementation of BattlEye, other BattlEye games work fine. Not that I even want to play destiny anymore.
No big loss there.
Over half the games in the top 1000 are at least gold or better and less than 50 are considered "bonked" with pretty much every one of them either having EAC or BattleEye.
Far more viable than it used to be. Steam's Proton tool makes it possible to play many Windows games with minimal tweaking. It's not perfect, but it's nice to be able to game without a million Windows processes running in the background, eating up your CPU.
The ProtonDB site is a useful tool to see how individual games run on Linux.
It's been fine for me, but I mostly play slightly older titles.
If you use nvidia forget it. Drivers are still awful. Just dual boot, with a Windows install for games.
SteamOS is pretty decent, can run in desktop mode and gaming mode with some performance loss. It is also available for regular PCs.
Some gaming comparisons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Y5y3cjH1Q&t=430s
Depends on the game. Anything modern that supports vulkan for rendering is really well supported. There are things like World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Baldur’s Gate 3, Witcher 3, etc., which play flawlessly.
steamtinkerlaunch
helps you even with non-steam games running fine with steam and proton