The ever coming year of the linux desktop.
Full disclosure: I dual boot, but only to game. Linux been my daily driver since before 7 went eol. I am that linux fanboy. Debian, primarily.
Full disclosure: I dual boot, but only to game. Linux been my daily driver since before 7 went eol. I am that linux fanboy. Debian, primarily.
CodeWeavers[1] has done amazingly for the Linux gaming scene via
- Steam's Proton (Steam pays CodeWeavers for development, and I happily throw my money at Valve for that) and
- their own CrossOver product which I use for non-Stream games. (I paid for their lifetime subscription[2] because I wanted to support them so much.)
Stream's Proton works well for many games that don't officially support it (one can check others' reports in protodb). Examples of games I've played recently that don't officially support Proton include Iron Danger and Horizon Zero Dawn. The latter runs surprisingly smoothly given what I'd heard about its PC performance issues from when it first came out. Granted, I'm playing both of these 1 year after their PC release, but I've already got a long Steam backlog of games to play, so that's not bothered me.
For reference, I run PopOS on a System76 Thelio with an 8-core AMD processor and Radeon RX 580.
It is hardly a traditional linux given how locked down it it is out of the box, but so what? She'll never use 99% of the features that windows or macOS come with.