My setup was this: a custom workstation that runs Debian 12, a System76 laptop that is also running Debian 12, and a custom gaming system running Windows 11. The workstation is in my office, and the gaming system is in the house. I was using the gaming system more and more for daily tasks other than gaming. I was looking at it as an opportunity to learn a little more about Windows 11. After all, I was on the technical support team for the launch of Windows 95, so we have history. Everything was fine until I started to try to code in Windows. I don't know how anyone does it! So, I remembered that I had an unused 1 TB SSD in my workstation and decided to put it in my gaming system and dual boot Debian. So that's what I did. Then, because it was already my gaming system, I thought I'd try out a few games. I knew that Valve/Steam was working on Proton and that the Wine project had come a long way, but I hadn't realized how far gaming in Linux had come.
I remember when getting Notepad to run in Linux was kind of a big deal. Starcraft was one of a handful of games that would run well in Wine. There were some Wine forks specific to applications (the Corel Suite comes to mind). But with native Steam and Lutris (or Bottles or PlayonLinux or whatever), there are loads of great games to play! After about a week of this I decided to just move my Debian install from the 1TB SSD to the 2TB NVME that Windows was on. And that was that. I can't play CoD in Linux, so I may end up putting Windows back on the SSD, but let's be real. CoD has gotten really weird and my wife and I can barely get a lobby that isn't full of people quick-scoping and trick-shotting their way through the lobby. It's just not fun for casual gamers. We're both pretty burned out on CoD. It just turned into a grind. New weapons, finishing the Battle Pass before the end of the season, weekly challenges, the new Meta, etc. Ugh.
So, now I guess I'm all the way Linux. And with the recent CrowdStrike debacle, even the wife is giving Linux another try. I set up Zorin-OS on her desktop and laptop, and she seems to like it. Stardew Valley runs like a champ on her $2000 gaming system!