What is dead may never die.

Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).

Fake it till you make it!

Also, these people are sick.

Actually Indian

If you have the ability to play every game you’d want, then yeah you likely have no need for this. But I’ve used GeForce Now to either play games on low-spec PCs or for a period of time when I only had access to a MacBook. Also, not every game will run on Linux (or if it does it may not perform quite as well), so that’s another potential use case.