I would ask myself “What are the games I play and how important is it to be able to play the latest AAA games when they come out?”

Proton is doing a wonderful job with compatibility, but it will likely always be behind by a bit.

If gaming is your primary focus and you play a lot of new games when they first come out, dual booting might be the best option.

On the other hand, if you are more patient and don’t have to play things on release day or just like going through the catalogue of older good games, you can probably get away with a full switch.

Personally, I’m in a more privileged scenario. I have a laptop with Linux and a desktop with Windows for gaming. I do most of my gaming on the steam deck, PS5, or switch but any first person or games that benefit from good reaction time with a mouse get played on my desktop. Some of my games just won’t work on proton because they are too intensive to run through emulation or just in too early a state to consider trying.

With all of that, if I could only have one machine it would likely be running Windows in some capacity.

I recommend you evaluate that question for yourself and go look at ProtonDB to figure out what state you’ll be in.

I’ve been using Linux for probably 12 years now and recently bought a System 76 laptop.

I’m genuinely surprised how good Pop! OS is. It works so smoothly on their hardware.

If I may ask, why do you believe that a properly decentralized system would default to everybody having to filter out things like hate speech on their own?

I’m not super clear on your statement.

Are you saying Beehaw should be defederated sure to it’s big lots of defederated instances or are you saying more instances should follow it’s example of defederating instances or that Beehaw needs to defederate a few more bad instances?