"Same here, if the games worked I'd move to Linux."
It depends on what you want to run. The likes of Wine, PlayonLinux and Crossover do a pretty good job for a lot of games. Oh, might take a bit of fiddling with but there is a lot of advice and scripts to take care of most cases.
Give it a go, you might like it and the sense of liberation from the MS mothership can be wonderful.