The user experience, and required troubleshooting, is still obnoxious. Even on the steam deck it’s obnoxious. It’s just not reliable, much as people hype it up. You’ll have to do a lot of troubleshooting at unexpected times when you really don’t want to be troubleshooting or might be pressed for time.

If you have an nvidia graphics card you can expect trouble with drivers, too.

If you have Windows 10 pro (or I think there’s a workaround to enable it if you just have the Home version), you can go into the group policy editor and disable those annoying pop-ups. You can even disable auto-updates, if you want to, or control how they work. And you can disable most of their telemetry. Windows 10 has a lot of flexibility if you know where to look/figure it out. They make it annoying to deal with, yes, but it has never been has horrible as Linux is for me whenever I’ve tried it, and it’s actually reliable.

Edit: also worth mentioning, depending on the games you play, a lot of multiplayer games’ anti-cheat systems do not work on Linux at all, so you can’t play those games on it.