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It usually is this simple for any distro anymore. My advice is mostly tailored to worst-case scenarios so that people don't get overly pissy when things don't Just Work™
Yes. Great point. I do try to give each game a test run before I schedule a group of friends to play it together. I guess I did that on Windows, as well.
When I was a big windows gamer the result tended to just be it works or it doesn't, on my current hardware. But maybe that's just gaming today. I think we have better optimization options, in general, now.
I'm not sure when things changed, as my journey was Windows PC Gamer to console gamer to SteamDeck to Linux PC gamer.
I think PC gaming, in general, got much nicer while I was only playing consoles.