Published May 5, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). The fact is that the overwhelming majority of PC gamers are still on Windows. What's also a fact is that more and more gamers are moving to Linux, something we saw clearly when Windows 10 entered its EOL phase. Linux gaming used to elicit audible groans from PC gamers. However, gaming on Linux is far from what most people remember . Today, you can play most of your Steam library on Linux, often with better performance than Windows, and without a ton of setup if you use the right distro. That said, what's possible on Linux doesn't automatically convince the average user to jump ship.…