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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
You are really reaching for using the word "reliable" to describe mentioned emulator layers. They just barely work and not with all games.

They have come a long way for sure but ot will take another 5 years for something better than windows for games to appear.

Also it's not all linuxs fault, game developers make games basically only windows in mind.
gpt
Every game I have played in Arch has worked flawlessly, often even with better performance than Windows, with exception of multiplayers blocked by anti-cheat. Almost all of the games I play would be workable on Linux if the devs would implement the already existing, perfectly functioning Linux EAC, but many of them act like all Linux users are hackers. It's ridiculous and frustrating.

So many games are MORE playable on Linux. My R9 290x and FX-6300 ran Cyberpunk at playable FPS. It wouldn't make it to menu without crashing on Windows. I had maybe 5 crashes the entire time I played that game on Linux. Windows gaming is cancer IMO and I can not wait for the day that Linux anti cheat is comprehensive enough I can delete my Windows boot and not have to pick from refind.