YMMV of course but I was playing Timberborn just the other day on Mint, on an Nvidia card, through Heroic. Proton seems to have been a gamechanger. I have just made my first steps into switching my daily driver myself. I may have been lucky but all the games I have wanted to play have worked so far. I also have a Steam Deck, which is what has encouraged me that it may be possible.
Agreed. It is difficult to recommend in some ways because I didn’t find it all that engaging at first. The gameplay was interesting but didn’t massively hook me.
But then that bit with the swimming happened right at the end and… Wow. It just reframed the whole game for me.
I second containers. I use Unraid and have found it pretty simple to get started. At one point I was using a vm on unraid as my gaming machine, although I have moved away from that and now have a low power Unraid server for hosting.
This may be way more in depth than you need but this guide is very comprehensive.
https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/03/13/android-emulation-starter-guide/