It's not game series, but sure, keep trolling.

g2a on the other hand, is a scam. you get 50-50. :/

Work on those is slower since the focus is more on newer software (and with good reason IMO), but there is still progress - submit reports for them to WineHQ. There are also tools/mods such as dgVoodoo that can help with getting them running in Wine since they often have problems with newer versions of Windows too.

That really depends on the copy protection method, some will work (e.g. basic checks), some may require some setting up, while other more complex ones won't. I always use cracks for my older games anyway.

Thank you for your input once again :-)

Damn the torpedoes and full Linux.

Okay, maybe don't do that if you're a first timer. But there's a helpful community who's there to help you. I use Fedora, for example.

I am seriously not getting it why call it trolling? Are you trying to start with me wherever you can or do you just see everything I do as suspect because a forum troll(Tiny) sent you some false info about me?

If you must complain about me please stick to my own offtopic threads or PMs and keep personal business out of other people's threads.

Thank you for the clarification.

u can get software that disables all that spyware crap in windows 10, its called shut up 10 and its free but as your on linux now its probably to late for you to return to windows, im not a windows fan boy or anything i hate the spyware stuff but u can use shutup 10 and GPEDIT to disable alot of this stuff.

alot of windows users only customise there desktop and explorer windows but if you use gpedit u can disable and customise it on a hardware/software level, il always use windows cos its just easier for gaming, butl inux has alot of advantages over windows like being free and not being owned by a big corporation, but if linux became mainstream and overtook windows it would just be bought out by a big company just liek alot of game companys are absorbed by ea and microsoft

But you shouldn't have to do all that :/ And it doesn't apply to everything, plus Microsoft sometimes likes to have it reset the settings with updates (or just outright ignore them), so you have to be especially vigilant because you can't trust the OS. And then updates frequently break things too, sometimes even deleting user data. It's a mess.

The open source nature and licensing for Linux is designed to prevent that from becoming an issue.

To be fair one should be careful when meddling with GPEDIT as the wrong things can BORK one's system.

Honestly I would say what is the main question will be : what is the main use you plan for this new PC ?

If it's a majority of games and you want minimum hassles then I would say stay on Windows, yes it's possible to have games work on Linux but unless you have a strong ideological push to do so it's often not worth the hassle to fiddle with Proton or Wine when thing usually work out of the box and often with better drivers and performances on Windows.

All the spyware or walled garden conspiracies never realized and probably never will (Nowadays the only thing Ms cares about is Azure, they don't give a damn about killing Steam or event Gog or even locking down the PC market) and there is tons of tools to disable any sort of Windows "features" you don't want.

On the other side if you want to learn something new, don't care about playing the latest games when they are released at maximum performances and don't require any closed source applications, then you can go to Linux. Just be aware that things, at least for games, won't be as straight forward as they were on Windows and you might have to wait some time before you can play a newly released game.

Concerning having a Windows VM, if it's for work (development, office, etc...) it works well but for games it's not that great, it's much better then to dual boot rather than trying to play using a VM.

Some thoughts on some of them:
2 has the downside that VM's generally have poor, if any, 3D support (unless you manage to get VGA passthrough working, but that's not for the faint of heart and it requires you to choose your components carefully). If your main reason for Windows is games, I would advise against this choice.
3. I noticed that a store was selling a 4 port HDMI switch for $40; also, you could look for a TV or monitor that has multiple inputs (mine has 2 HDMI inputs, one that I use for my PC and the other is used for various other things, like my mini PC, Raspberry Pis, and Mini NES/SNES). For keyboard and mice, connect them to a USB hub and just move the hub to a different front port each time you want to switch computers.

4 is the approach that I personally prefer and use.

Yes, this I have read many times. I am not new nor averse to dual booting.

Linux isn't a company; it is a kernel, released under the GPL version 2 (which requires those who release modifications to release the source under the same license); relicensing the kernel would not be feasible, because nobody owns copyright on the entire kernel. To relicense, every contributer to the kernel would need to agree to the new license, and that's just not going to happen.

Most of the userland that runs on top of Linux is also released under similar licenses; this includes such things as the init systems (systemd being the most common in full-featured distributions these days), the graphical environment, WINE, and most of the programs Linux users use on a daily basis. As a result, even if some company buys out and closes part of the Linux ecosystem, someone else can just fork it and keep the old license. There have been cases where a fork due to license issues ends up replacing the original in terms of popularity (see LibreOffice, which was a fork of OpenOffice).

So no, Linux can't be bought out in the way you describe.

well i have windows updates disabled as in permanently using gpedit cos my parents pc had a clock error with 1809 update with there windows 10 pc and i had to fix it
oh yes GPEDIT can mess up your system if you dnt know what your doing but i read guides and stuff so i know how to use it and what stuff to avoid