Like why don’t we just have ACTUAL DOCTORS and techs trained to do this actually test it. Wild concept I know.

Yes

Start with Linux Mint and use Steam’s Proton or Lutris. I can run just about every game natively or using one of those without having to do too much work to play them.

Normally they’d say this and then change it again. That’s pretty much how every “feature” they’ve added to their OS and it is becoming a little too bloaty.

Mint is easy to use too if you don’t want to fiddle around with various packages.