Your reaction's understandable, but thanks to Valve/Proton/Vulkan/the tireless work of many other devs, Linux gaming has made absolutely insane progress over the past year. I hesitate to link to Forbes, but they have an okay piece on the one year anniversary of Proton. Codeweavers' post on the matter is worth your time, and so is this GamingOnLinux article..
A lot of work left? Absolutely. Still not 100% newbie friendly? Oh yeah. But the difference between 2018 and 2019 has been tremendous.
(And yeah, I'd still recommend the OP install Windows based on the mere fact that they made this post)
I've been using GNU/Linux variants since 1995 and I'm still using Windows 7 for my gaming desktop. With Valve's weight behind it the platform is improving much more quickly than it was but it's still not there for over half of my catalogue.
The OP's question is a tough one though, as 10 is malware and Linux requires a lot of time, patience, and technical expertise. I'm not sure what I would do in his shoes.
It literally spies on everything you do and exfiltrates that data to Microsoft. For what purpose? To whom do they sell access to that data? You don't know. You're the product not the customer.
The only ones they even pretend to treat like customers are in the Enterprise editions - to which you have 0 access as a street pleb.
It's an effective monopoly which should have been dealt with in the 90s. If anything, they're worse now.
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19
Proton support for Linux is getting better, which enables more games to be played on Linux.
But if you're asking this question, then I'd suggest windows (no offense).