Valve is investing a lot of resources in Wine/Proton. dxvk is being actively maintained which is very good. Same with Vulkan.
For how long do you think this can go on? I can’t think of it as a profitable venture which is unfortunately necessary for a project to have a long life. Especially with many newer AAA games not having Wine compatibility (correct me if I am wrong here) because of reliance of DirectX 12 or some ring-0 level anticheat. With the hegemony of Microsoft on consumer PC market and especially PC gaming, I don’t know how long the current momentum will persist, though I am grateful for the work done so far.
This is the first I’ve heard of ``Windows S’’ - of course they would. I’ve only used Windows as a second OS to game since 2013 so my heads been out of the Windows world but the continuing trend that I see with users is things are getting much easier, but your freedoms only go as far as your wallet.