You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.

> unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat

Sadly, I do :( Valorant is the main one that keeps my Windows partition around, for better or worse. Also sadly still there's some performance overhead for Linux gaming today, I hope that goes away in the future (for Intel/Nvidia cards especially)

I have a 2nd nvme in that machine for bazzite

not quite there for me yet I'm afraid!

sometimes games just won't work on Linux, doom the dark ages refuses to work on Linux for me.

VR?

You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem

it's running Microslop Windows, so it's born compromised

it's an OS with constant built-in ads and spyware

it would have been considered malware in the 2000s

Not being an incompetent or inexperienced Windows user, I'm vanishingly unlikely to be infected by a bot network trojan... and if that does happen, rest assured, I'll notice it.

Windows Update, on the other hand, is part of my threat model.

You can't do that. Eventually, something will stop working because it requires a certain Windows update.

Then reinstall with a later ISO and cripple it again. On the whole that's probably more reliable.