Well I like what Valve is doing with Proton, but all the fiddling around and the fact that Proton was designed ONLY for Steam games and does not really play well with other games SUCKS! Lutris has their WINE + DXVK and stuff and removed Proton as a runtime for this reason. There still is no good one-stop shop that "just works TM" for games on Linux.

And I like to play AAA games and would, lose performance in many cases on Linux, so I happily bite the sour apple to play the latest games easy and fast without any issues.

The gaming industry is so heavily focused on DX12 instead of natively building for Vulkan for some reason, even though this matter less and less with Wine/Proton getting better and better. It still makes more sense to me to just boot up Windows 11. It's a dream for me to one day delete my windows partition, and I think it will actually happen in my lifetime, just not in 2024.