When I stopped using Windoze for Linux around 2006, I gave up on playing games on pc, which was fine as I always have latest generation consoles around anyways.

When I stopped using Windoze for Linux around 2006, I gave up on playing games on pc, which was fine as I always have latest generation consoles around anyways. Eventually it got annoying and expensive to keep consoles around, and more so now with the push to buy games digitally that you don't really even own and will stop working one day. Finally when Valve got involved to fix wine with Proton, it changed everything as a Linux user, and finally I don't need dedicated consoles to play what few games I still do. If a game is loaded with invasive DRM to NOT work under Proton/Linux, they're doing me a favor as I don't want to support them anyways. Proton alone made Valve saints to myself and most all Linux users in giving gaming back to the Linux world, far more than scabs like Epic that criticize Valve for market dominance ever will.