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Here’s hoping it matures enough for desktop use by the time my Win10 desktop is EOL.
Not necessary, you can use dozens of distros where playing Steam games is pretty much plug and play
What about non steam games? Maybe I’m in the extreme minority, but my most played games are things like Microsoft Flight Sim, DCS, Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous, which not only have their own launchers etc (one of which is tied directly to MS), they also require peripherals… sometimes lots of em, that have config and/or telemetry software that is all built in windows.
There are plenty of ways to run non-steam games and most games work out of box. Wine/Proton, the software that steam uses to translate windows calls to linux calls, can also be run outside of steam. Wine can also just run generic windows programs so config software will probably run fine.
The peripherals is where you may run into some issues as I'm not sure how well supported they would be on linux. I wouldn't know as I don't use any special peripherals.