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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Using a mainstream distro like Ubuntu, along with Steam makes it fairly seemless - no struggling required.
95% of my Steam library I can install and run without a second thought and the performance isn't noticeably different to Windows. Some non-Steam titles I use Lutris for, but that's only one or two extra steps.