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As a 20+ year Linux user, no shit. It's been great every year.
I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you're coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.
Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn't work...
Only game I played on Linux before Proton was Minecraft Java (cracked) for Ubuntu in like 2014.
I used to be shocked when a game ran in wine without any manual intervention. Now I'm shocked when it doesn't!
Maybe, but this isn’t just any year, this is THE year of the linux desktop.