Steam beta fixes bug that hid Proton games for large libraries
Linux can be cool and surprisingly easy. I've been running Fedora 43 on my main machine for a few months now and, to be honest, it's almost boringly easy: aside from minor tinkering to get proprietary Nvidia drivers and codecs installed, it's been smooth sailing.
In the most recent Steam (and Steam Deck) client beta update, Valve fixed a bug that sometimes made the platform forget it can run Windows games on Linux. The issue affected users with especially large libraries—though Valve doesn't say how large—and could result in Proton games showing up as "Not valid on current platform." Proton is Valve's WINE-based compatibility layer that lets Windows-only games run on your Linux distro of choice.
This isn't the end for Windows, but more people who previously paid no mind to Linux are starting to pay attention. That's healthy and, from a neophyte Linux user's perspective, pretty dang cool.