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Even that quote is contradictory in one sentence. Bold added to clarify what I mean...
Basically "I won't play a game that 'hard requires windows' unless I decide to play a game that 'straight doesn't work on linux', which happens regularly enough that it is half the reason I keep a windows partition around". Like, honestly, It's okay. I am not trying to shame you for having a windows partition. I just find it hypocritical to say it doesn't work and then explain how you make it work, lol.
I think we have different definitions of the word regularly. that, or you're not understanding my post I can't tell.
As per the quote, it happens once or twice a year. I would not classify that as regularly. And as such, since it's not happening regularly, I am able to use the system where it defaults to Linux.
Where in contrast, if I had a program or game that I played daily with my friends(or arguably, even if it was every other day) that required Windows, I would be defaulting to Windows because having to reboot your computer in order to load completely different operating system regularly would be too much of a pain in the ass.
I say this from a realistic point of view because I've already done that back before proton and back before wine was even half as decent as it was now. That is how I ran my laptop, I had a Windows 7 system with Linux Mint on it as a side load. And I had to reboot into Windows any time I wanted to play a game because wine at that stage of development sucked. My intention was to switch to Linux and have Linux as a primary. But realistically, what it ended up being is, if I had a remote suspicion that I might want to play a video game that day, I would just load the Windows operating system, in order to make it so I didn't have to restart all my programs in order to play my game.
Current day proton and wine have gotten to the point where I no longer have to worry about that because I have no Windows critical games anymore. So as such, I'm able to default to Linux because I'm not having to reboot into Windows to make it work.
Hopefully that makes it a little more clearer, I fail to see how it's hypocritical.