If I am reading the room right, I think Wine/Proton/Steam making gaming almost effortless on linux has been the big swing. It was not like this 5 years ago.
I have been a linux user for work for a decade, but still ran Windows for a gaming PC. But with Win11 dropping the ball so hard, and the general hype around Proton and where linux gaming was it, it was not hard to make the decision to switch.
Same here. Been using Linux personally for about a decade, professionally for half of that. I still ran a GPU passthrough Windows 11 VM for games up until a couple months ago. I am now switching to running everything purely in Linux, and it's great. Night and day difference between what it used to be like 5 years ago for sure.
I have been a linux user for work for a decade, but still ran Windows for a gaming PC. But with Win11 dropping the ball so hard, and the general hype around Proton and where linux gaming was it, it was not hard to make the decision to switch.
I haven't regretted it a single bit.