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Skyrim with proton GE will work just fine. Modding will be trickier. Vortex can be setup, with lutris. But I've ran into issues when it comes to external programs like resaver, loot, nemesis/fnis.
You could slap in a cheap second drive and see what happens. Compared to 10 years ago, it's so much better.
Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3, Sims 4, Minecraft (not a shocker, just need Java for modded), it's been great.
steamtinkerlaunch makes running Skyrim with ModOrganizer2 very simple. Other external programs will probably still be tricky though
If you use lutris you can simply download portable MO2 version and unpack it to your wine prefix with installed skyrim and it's work perfectly.
Can you elaborate on the modding? I'm also interested in using Linux for gaming but Skyrim utterly demands mods and particularly I quite like mods like Skyrim script extender (I think that was the name) and I also really liked ENBs for the graphical improvement. And Nemesis was also sooooo much better than the alternative for managing all those mods.
I know multiple people that do Skyrim on linux, at least one heavily modded. Outside of DyndoLOD not working right I can’t really remember any issues they had.