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Pop OS works great for me. I've done a lot of testing with my steam (and other ) games. I've gotten 95% to work, most without a lot of effort. Proton db helps
Ditto. I swapped to linux this summer and landed on Pop!_OS because my laptop has hybrid Nvidia graphics. Pop supports that really well because the company that makes Pop sells laptops with similar hybrid Nvidia graphics.
So far almost every game I've tried on Pop has worked with no issue. Of the games that have had issues, EVERY ONE got working with the help of Proton db. (Note: All Steam games or games with native linux support.)
Anyways, yeah I'm really not the biggest fan of Pop's desktop environment, but it work really well for gaming so I'm leaving well enough alone.