I did hear about that but never had any issues myself.

They’re working on an open source version of the first one.

But I’m also waiting on a spiritual successor of the Black & White games. I loved them!

Edit: I mean, there’s Universim which is quite fun as well, but it’s not B&W.

I use Jetbrains Rider on Linux which runs just fine. It takes some setting up to install .NET but it didn’t take me too long. Except for pre-release versions, that might take more trial and error.

Overall I’m pretty satisfied with the switch to Linux and I haven’t had any major issues. Not with video games, either. Protondb.com is a good website to see what games do and don’t work on Linux and you may need to add launch options to get specific games to work or switch to a specific version of Proton.

It’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it for you or not. You could try a dual boot setup first.