I'm so glad I got comfortable using Linux early on. It just keeps getting easier to use and more powerful. Even gaming on Linux is pretty much tolerable these days thanks in part to Valve / Steam and their Proton fork of WINE.

I don't have a Steam Deck and I have no intention of buying one.

But damn I am grateful it exists. It single handedly allowed me to have Linux and nothing else on my personal machine.

Gaming on Linux for me has been more than tolerable, it has been as close to perfection as I always hoped.

Gaming on Linux for me started getting easy for me around WINE 3.0-ish, when EverQuest (and other MMOs of that time period) started running pretty near flawlessly for me. That's when my Windows XP/7 partition finally died for the last time on my system. Ain't been back to Windows since (other than trying out Windows 10 on a friend's system and instantly remembering why I had learned to hate Windows). Since Steam came to Linux and Valve released Proton, it's all only gotten better by leaps and bounds.

It's funny, I spent the time to get a windows app launching in proton as I was having some issues with the Linux version that I didn't have the time/patience to diagnose and fix myself.

The launcher is called proton-call ... I changed Steam to use the version of proton to match what the app expected, and it worked pretty cleanly. All said, I do wish it were easier for a separate launcher or third party to include proton as a separate package.

https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

Thanks for that!

You might also want to look into "Heroic" (an open source implementation of a GOG and Epic games launcher), and "Lutris", and "Bottles"; all of which can use Proton (and WINE) to launch Windows games and apps on Linux rather easily.

> considering how user hostile Mac OS interface is

I can’t say that this is wrong, because user hostility is 100 % subjective by definition, but it’s as close you can get to “wrong” in some general knowledge, large numbers, empirical sense. macOS has always been the “user friendly” one.

> has always been the “user friendly” one.

Yet trying to get my keyboard to be properly configured on Mac OS is next to impossible. The time I spent trying to get it configured is comical, I just decided to get used that a couple of keys are switched around.

Doing the same on Windows or Linux was pleasantly easy.

Mac OS sacrifices usability in the name of having a "sexy" interface. There's nothing user friendly about it.

A gold plated turd is still a turd.

I think it's more that certain hotkeys are different, and that comes from history... even if you switch ctrl/alt/super around, you still have to have something off. It used to be far worse if you were around for real unix hardware and other systems like Comodore, Atari etc.

Oh no, MacOS just doesn't like the position of the tilde character on my keyboard. Decided that it should be somewhere else.

I'm okay with it beeing anal with the ctrl/super/alt keys. It's just thay MacOS is anal about a lot more things.

> Ironic, considering how user hostile Mac OS interface is.

You might not like it, doesn't make it user hostile. At least not without further expanding, because it's definitely not just a fact as you seem to state.