“If you buy a Flight Simulator on Steam most of them including Microsoft’s can be used with Linux.”
It seems to be dependent on the distro. Mint and Debian users seem to have the best experiences. I have not been able to get any of the MS flight simulators to work on SUSE even after trying various ProtonDB versions and different installation methods for Steam itself.
What distro do you use? And for the “joystick” I really like the Thrustmaster T.16000M HOTAS (mainly used for helicopters and gliders on Windows).
My current system is weak. I purchased MSFS2020 with a 40% discount from the Microsoft Store. I use a very clean tweaked Windows 11 “to go” system on an external NVME SSD to run MSFS 2020. It took quite a bit of trial and error with the settings to keep it from crashing. The primary problem turned out to be the newer drivers that I was using. I had to go with minimal drivers from a couple years ago.
I tried this because I had almost no system crashes when the program first came out. I hadn't used the game for a while when I started trying to help a young friend learn to fly. My system could no longer handle the program. I was sure it was all the updates from Microsoft, but I finally figured out that it was the newer drivers from AMD.
My system triple boots, the Linux distribution that I use is Ubuntu Studio 22.04. I purchased MSFS2020 from the Microsoft Store so I am unable run it from Steam in Ubuntu. But I did purchase both Microsoft FSX and X-pilot 11 through Steam and both of them run using Ubuntu. Of course X-pilot 11 is more challenging for the machine. The X-plane 12 Demo made for Linux barely runs at all.
When we come into a little money I plan on purchasing a more capable computer so I can enjoy the amazing graphics now available.