Criticism of gaming on Linux some years back was very well deserved.

Barely any native games, and subpar drivers compared to windows didnt make it a good platform at all. And of course for basically almost every game the only choice was WINE, and more often than not it was impossible to make it work, or had game breaking issues.

Then came the Proton days and things started to change, and with the steam deck, it's really incredible how far we've come.