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I'm a Linux sysadmin, we use RHEL at work. So my experience is skewed.
Been gaming on Windows since the 90s. But I've had a Linux homelab since the mid-2000s. To be honest, I've never had an issue with gaming on Windows. I switched from Windows 7 to 8.1 when it first released because Windows 8 had direct ISO mounting. I switched to Windows 10 right when it released and the odd hiccup has happened, I've never had files go missing, settings revert, or performance drops due to updates. I updated to Windows 11 right when it released and been having the same experience, zero issues. Idk, I always build my PCs myself and I put a fresh copy of Windows on it, never used anything pre-installed or pre-made.
I've owned a Steam Deck since its launch and I think over time my experience with gaming on Linux has changed due to proton. I've tried switching in the past, but nothing ever *clicked and I just went back to Windows.
However, since the rise of AI, Microsoft locking Windows down, and wanting to "own" my PC, I switched to Linux on my main laptop and also switched on a secondary gaming desktop I have, just to have a test bed environment. So far it's been solid, but I currently utilize Moonlight and Apollo to stream from my windows gaming PC to my Beelink mini PC because I moved my gaming PC to the garage due to heat/noise.
So I'm in-between deciding on switching my Beelink to Linux and still use moonlight or just switch my main gaming PC over to Linux as well. I need to test Apollo/Moonlight on the entirely Linux clients I have. I do heavy modding for some games like Fallout and the TaleofTwoWastelands mod, so I need to test this on my Linux gaming PC...
As for a distro. I use RHEL at work, so I'm familiar with Fedora. I use Proxmox/Debian for my homelab(and Ubuntu containers). So I'm familiar with that side as well. I've tried Fedora, Kubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Endeavor...but I always ran into a weird issue or something didn't feel "right" with the PC after a while. And I always see a bunch of YouTubers and people saying "XYZ distro is the best" but then another "new" distro comes out, so just tons of "flavor of the month" happening.
But recently I put CachyOS on my laptop and secondary PC and it's been surprisingly solid. Everything just seems to "work". I heard about Cachy over a year ago, but again, "flavor of the month" so I ignored it. But looking into it more and tried it out on my laptop, I was surprised with how much a Arch distro was "easy" to setup and use out of the box.
So gaming on Linux has been pretty similar to Windows. There's the odd issue with proton and CPU overhead I've experienced, but Cachy has helped a lot with Nvidia GPUs and I like that it isn't a "gaming" distro but a distro that is flexible.
I think the main "issue" with Windows to Linux is that people try to make Linux into Windows. Linux isn't a direct replacement to Windows, but it's a very solid operating system that is beyond flexible. I would say buy a second drive, install Linux on that and try it out, if you like it then take the plunge. If you don't, well wipe it and go back to Windows.