I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her head, sound coming through the speakers, watching her soaps like this is how it’s meant to be done.
Depends, if you want to play online, tough luck. Most anticheats refuse to work with Linux, the smaller games probably work fine, but if it’s somewhat mainstream (fortnite, valorant, cod, rainbow six, etc) it probably won’t work. ProtonDB has a great list.
Interesting…I play online literally all the time, including Elden Ring and Armored Core 6, both of which have EAC. No Man’s Sky’s multiplayer has worked BETTER for me on Linux than it did on Windows. So what is this “tough luck”? What distro do you use? I use Fedora 39 (KDE Plasma spin) and I have ZERO issues. But that’s because I use the Fedora package from Discovery, not the flatpak version of Steam. Flatpak has serious issues with EAC because of the sandboxing.
Maybe tough luck was the wrong term. But I was mostly referring to the really major games. Most games I care about also work fine.