I installed this begrudgingly after fighting edge cases with Waydroid on Arch. It's the first "batteries included" distro I've actually liked. I usually hate the "omakase" approach, but the setup here is pretty much how I would've done it myself.
Side note: GNOME + Waydroid is the best experience I've had with a desktop OS on a tablet. Finding tools like scrcpy included out of the box was a nice surprise, too.
just relax, install windows and late the escapism take over.
In any case, I would rather use those hard earned skills hand configuring Slackware today than to put with the shitshow of Windows pop-ups, forced account creation, telemetry collection, UI changes for the sake of change, advertisements built into the OS, random OS corrupting BSODs, etc..
Vanilla Wine is a bit of a rough experience, I'd only recommend it for advanced users who know what they're doing.
I believe you that steamos is better, but it's also a single task environment where you're not checking your email between rounds of halo.
I'll give proton a try, though i believe that was in play when i was laddering with lutris.