We have approached this subject on other threads, and in threads about distributions for one purpose or platform or another.
I just ran into an interesting (but incomplete) article that covers opinions on some topics in this area and wanted the information made available to this community.
The article is here: https://www.howtogeek.com/best-linux...os-for-gaming/ and none of the recommendations are among my favorites.
I am partial to Sparky Linux Game Over Edition myself, but these do deserve some strong consideration.



Enjoy!

If I remember well steam works on ubuntu, but not all of the games are supported. I installed a flight sim on ubuntu, it worked only with the official amd video driver.

i use lutris/steam/wine to game on Arch, my main games (cs:go, gtav online, cyberpunk 2077 (and its dlc), diablo2 resurrected, elden ring) work nicely with it.
one game i havent tried is counter strike 2.

but i have to say Linux gaming has made some nice progress.
i remember times when nothing worked.

See, I started gaming on IBM machines in 1969, then on CP/M machines and Interact Model J 16k, Then in Unix (Coherent, Sun Sparkstations, AT&T SysV) before I discovered IBM DOS 1.1. I never found a machine or OS that did not support my games, although most of them were text or text graphic games. When Linux came along one thing I loved was that there were HUNDREDS of games that were originally designed for other platforms or operating systems that ran BETTER on Linux. I do not recall ANY time when nothing worked! EVER!

I DO recall some instances when some VIDEO games did not do what I expected, but that was mostly after NVIDIA got into the act but failed to communicate well with ANY part of the gaming community other than developers. Today more things work in Video gaming than EXISTED in all of the gaming world when Linux was a "new thing" and Linux supports more games in total than any other operating system. Period!

At least two of the largest game development houses now develop purely on Linux and then port to every other supported platform, because developing on Linux is faster and porting FROM Linux is easier. (Read: they save more of those precious development dollars and push product out the door faster and with better quality!)

We live in interesting times, and in the part of the world attending to games and Linux these are GREAT times!
We have the best toys ever! ;-)

yeah, i agree with you, i have seen some games running faster on Linux.
i started to game with 386 which my father bought to be his work computer.

that "nothing worked" were a slight exaggeration