I think this downplays some of the work Valve/Steam has done for Linux, especially recently.
For a long time, playing games on Linux wasn't a "nerd" thing, it was a "nobody" thing. Getting AAA games to run on Linux was a pipe dream.
Valve has put in the work (and in some cases, hired the people putting in the work) to get us to today, where most games work with decent performance (the major exception being anti-cheat, but Valve is slowly working on those as well).
Most people probably don’t realise that Valve has actual kernel devs. I bought a Logitech racing wheel a while ago and force feedback wasn’t working. After some research I found a mailing list where someone with a valve email has submitted a patch that fixed it.
I play Counterstrike GO, and it was the thing holding me back from abandoning windows.
I (use to) play daily so there was no point ever booting up into linux.
As soon as linux support came out, I started playing under it immediately, and quickly realised that there was no point booting up into windows anymore.
For a long time, playing games on Linux wasn't a "nerd" thing, it was a "nobody" thing. Getting AAA games to run on Linux was a pipe dream.
Valve has put in the work (and in some cases, hired the people putting in the work) to get us to today, where most games work with decent performance (the major exception being anti-cheat, but Valve is slowly working on those as well).