Greyscale

ok buddy sure native applications are harder to run than ones through a shim.

most Linux builds are terrible

wrong.

I don’t play pirated games, the convenience of “it just works” and accumulating everything on steam directed me that way quite some time ago.

I’ve heard lutris and friends should make repacks work.

Edit: also “real games” only don’t work because the manufacturer chose to break it. There’s nothing special about what AAA does, other than abuse their customers. There’s no secret sauce. Only secretive source.

She does. Just about everything Just Works on Arch + Steam + GTX 1060

Check protondb and assume that it works unless they specifically resist it working with kernel level anticheat.

All my machines still work after a decade or two. As time goes on, the opensource drivers for old cards gets more reliable.

My partners PC recently had its GPU go “unsupported” by nvidia, but it works just fine with the driver that now supports it.