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Why am I even using Linux and the accompanying inconveniences when gaming when with all the slop in the kernel and elsewhere in the stack I might as well just cut out the middleman and run Windows?
I hate that I'm asking myself this question, but here we are.
@thomholwerda could be worse, you could be a Mac gamer. 
Anywhere I'm not playing games I can move to OpenBSD (hardware support willing), but on my gaming PC, that's not an option.
Does your PC have an AMD GPU? Then you could slap the gaming distro on an external drive (SSD for proper throughout recommended) and run OpenBSD as the main thing. But this is just a hypothetical option.
If you have "the other GPU vendor" then you are really out of luck. No bueno with the Puffster.
Basically how I have my gaming rig fixed. No way jose that I am letting systemd-osd anywhere real data that isn't a savegame.
@thomholwerda Valid question. I moved into the Apple ecosystem this week, and picked up a Macbook Air. If everything is slop, might as well have the convenience and battery life of a Mac. I'm not even a purist, but the slop and fascism adjacent personalities in free software have finally turned me off.