I'm so glad I got comfortable using Linux early on. It just keeps getting easier to use and more powerful. Even gaming on Linux is pretty much tolerable these days thanks in part to Valve / Steam and their Proton fork of WINE.
It's funny, I spent the time to get a windows app launching in proton as I was having some issues with the Linux version that I didn't have the time/patience to diagnose and fix myself.
The launcher is called proton-call ... I changed Steam to use the version of proton to match what the app expected, and it worked pretty cleanly. All said, I do wish it were easier for a separate launcher or third party to include proton as a separate package.
You might also want to look into "Heroic" (an open source implementation of a GOG and Epic games launcher), and "Lutris", and "Bottles"; all of which can use Proton (and WINE) to launch Windows games and apps on Linux rather easily.
Gaming on Linux for me started getting easy for me around WINE 3.0-ish, when EverQuest (and other MMOs of that time period) started running pretty near flawlessly for me. That's when my Windows XP/7 partition finally died for the last time on my system. Ain't been back to Windows since (other than trying out Windows 10 on a friend's system and instantly remembering why I had learned to hate Windows). Since Steam came to Linux and Valve released Proton, it's all only gotten better by leaps and bounds.
> considering how user hostile Mac OS interface is
I can’t say that this is wrong, because user hostility is 100 % subjective by definition, but it’s as close you can get to “wrong” in some general knowledge, large numbers, empirical sense. macOS has always been the “user friendly” one.
Yet trying to get my keyboard to be properly configured on Mac OS is next to impossible. The time I spent trying to get it configured is comical, I just decided to get used that a couple of keys are switched around.
Doing the same on Windows or Linux was pleasantly easy.
Mac OS sacrifices usability in the name of having a "sexy" interface. There's nothing user friendly about it.
I think it's more that certain hotkeys are different, and that comes from history... even if you switch ctrl/alt/super around, you still have to have something off. It used to be far worse if you were around for real unix hardware and other systems like Comodore, Atari etc.
> Ironic, considering how user hostile Mac OS interface is.
You might not like it, doesn't make it user hostile. At least not without further expanding, because it's definitely not just a fact as you seem to state.
Either way, I hope this pushes more people towards Linux. Moved to Mint recently and couldn't be happier.
Only wish I could use it for work as well, but oh well.