The examples in this article about gaming feel very outdated now - the sheer fact that the Steam Deck exists at all is good evidence of how different the current state of Linux gaming is to how the article suggests.
A lot of big titles run okay. Anti-cheat is getting more and more support for Linux. Proton + DXVK in particular provides excellent performance for a wide range of titles (and it really is within a few % of Windows). Wine and Proton quite often provides superior compatibility on older titles to running them on modern Windows - a reasonable chunk of my selection of early 2000s titles are broken on Windows 10/11 but work fine on Linux.
With regard to the suitability of Linux in general, I've said in previous comment threads on HN about how I try Linux on the desktop every 6 to 12 months to see how I get on with it, and this time (since about April 2022) it has actually stuck pretty well - the combination of hitting more issues with newer Windows, and the fact that Linux (for me Arch + KDE on AMD) has genuinely improved means I now spend more time on Linux than on Windows for basically the first time ever.
Linux is far from flawless, but it's making excellent progress.
A lot of big titles run okay. Anti-cheat is getting more and more support for Linux. Proton + DXVK in particular provides excellent performance for a wide range of titles (and it really is within a few % of Windows). Wine and Proton quite often provides superior compatibility on older titles to running them on modern Windows - a reasonable chunk of my selection of early 2000s titles are broken on Windows 10/11 but work fine on Linux.
With regard to the suitability of Linux in general, I've said in previous comment threads on HN about how I try Linux on the desktop every 6 to 12 months to see how I get on with it, and this time (since about April 2022) it has actually stuck pretty well - the combination of hitting more issues with newer Windows, and the fact that Linux (for me Arch + KDE on AMD) has genuinely improved means I now spend more time on Linux than on Windows for basically the first time ever.
Linux is far from flawless, but it's making excellent progress.