Sounds like he doesn’t want to spend his time tinkering, but playing.
Ehhh, I feel like this person is a tinkerer, it’s just the things they wanna tinker with don’t play nice with Linux.
Installing a modded version of Minecraft indicates a desire to tinker. Roblox is a game based around the concept of tinkering. EA games (especially ones from 7 years ago) require some level of tinkering even in Windows.
I feel like the SteamDeck and SteamOS have already done more for Linux gaming than ChromeOS ever had the potential for.