I use Ubuntu, and most of my games work great. Check protondb.com to see if your critical games work well or not in linux through steam. Some may require special switches to be add in the game setup in Steam to get them to run well. There is also a version of proton (which is Steams's additions to Wine which is what lets you make Windows API calls) called glorious eggroll that implements some fixes that haven't yet made it to proton. Make sure you install the proprietary nvidia drivers, and you should be all set.
It's truly a new world for gaming in linux now. I've been on linux since the early 2000s and had basically given up on getting almost anything to run through wine. Now almost everything in my steam catalog runs fine.
Just a heads-up that it's not all roses, though. There may be games that run fine for some people but don't on your setup, and anything with anti-cheat is basically not going to run yet, though Valve is working hard on that problem. You may find issues with alt-tabbing from fullscreen games, you might find that some games rely on an api that isn't working in proton or wine yet. For example, I play Phasmophobia solo, and that works great for the most part but they rely on Cortana for voice recognition, and that isn't implemented yet. I can make noise and ghosts will hear me, but they won't understand what I'm saying.
In my opinion any issues you run into will be small fish in comparison to issues thrust upon you by Microsoft being Microsoft, but they will seem huge at first because you're probably used to trying to solve problems the "microsoft way". Once you get past a few you'll be doing great.
It's truly a new world for gaming in linux now. I've been on linux since the early 2000s and had basically given up on getting almost anything to run through wine. Now almost everything in my steam catalog runs fine.
Just a heads-up that it's not all roses, though. There may be games that run fine for some people but don't on your setup, and anything with anti-cheat is basically not going to run yet, though Valve is working hard on that problem. You may find issues with alt-tabbing from fullscreen games, you might find that some games rely on an api that isn't working in proton or wine yet. For example, I play Phasmophobia solo, and that works great for the most part but they rely on Cortana for voice recognition, and that isn't implemented yet. I can make noise and ghosts will hear me, but they won't understand what I'm saying.
In my opinion any issues you run into will be small fish in comparison to issues thrust upon you by Microsoft being Microsoft, but they will seem huge at first because you're probably used to trying to solve problems the "microsoft way". Once you get past a few you'll be doing great.