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Besides games that actively block linux for their anti-cheat, there aren't many games that don't work ootb on linux.
You can always check for specific games on protondb.

The very first cutscene has a worm crawling into your eye aboard a ship with brain-eating mindflayers, talk about setting the tone.

wine doesn't emulate, it translates api calls.
Installing dotnet shouldn't be necessary afaik and might bork the protonprefix further.

You're over complicating things

if you don't know their use case or the hardware they use

Most hardware will work ootb, most use cases is opening the browser. But i do agree a blank "use Linux" is a bit too broad. Something like "Use Mint" or "Use Fedora" is better.

What kind of knowledge do you think linux requires? Installing is like a 5 step process. Once installed any grandma can use GNOME or KDE just fine.

made by the company that has hundreds of paid employees working on it.

You'd have a point there, if the company's aim was solely to make a better product; it's been increasingly about increasing their margins at the expense of the users, advertising as much as possible and buying out the competition.

Typically prices go down, not up. This is already the cheaper version.

main characters of the opposite sex that are good friends

These days you'll get romance with characters of the same sex too, detracting. If you only look at the main characters, maybe. But a show without romance at all? No.

I'm sure some exist, but you're an exception in not wanting that at all; most people want sex appeal and some romance.

Sex is an intrinsic part of being human and influences a lot of our decisions, it's only natural for it to be in our media.

Romance sells. Will they won't they sells. Sex appeal sells.

It might seem cheap to you, but people do want and enjoy that kind of content.