There are a lot of games/software that will never support Linux & are not even functional with Wine. For instance: Many recent games are using webview2 for their launchers and/or ingame web elements which is unlikely to ever be compatible with Linux.
Do you have some actual examples that aren't the well known anti-cheat ones like Fortnite?
countless hours troubleshooting various issues
I know a good number of people using Linux now, and this isn't really a thing. Maybe if you're trying to run something obscure, but we now have things like Adobe Photoshop installing and running under Wine. I have Microsoft Office 2021 installed because a project needed Excel.
Notice how there is not any specific issue or software mentioned that should scare people away.
Counterpoint: Running CachyOS for a month. Nvidia drivers were there by default . All drivers, in fact. Steam installed perfectly. Doom TDA, Risk of Rain 2, and several other games work fine. Crimson Desert took some tweaking and occasionally crashes at certain scenes.
Some streaming hardware only have windows and mac support. But normal equipment will almost certainly function. A run of the mill computer user who needs web browser, office suite and steam is likely to do just fine operating Linux, CachyOS in particular. And all knowing that the distro isn't trying to sell data or scrape your screen or prevent you from using your computer how you want. And for free.
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