It feels like the SSD with Windows 10 will become my gaming machine for all of my old or offline titles (with OOSU https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10, Kaspersky Antivirus and other software to help mitigate its eventual downwards spiral into insecurity, much like XP experienced), whereas the M.2 SSD with Ubuntu LTS will become my new daily driver.

It's not like i have much of a choice, because thankfully Microsoft finally forced my hand by not supporting my Ryzen 3 1200.

After all, gaming is the only thing holding me back: it's amazing to see Proton and other tech progressing rapidly to bridge the gap, even though i'll still want to occasionally play some of the older unsupported titles.

To me, the only piece that's missing is something like VirtualBox with good GPU passthrough and relative mouse movement mode, so i can run Windows 10 in a VM without any sorts of other trickery. Either that, or for Wine to get better.

Well, perhaps software like MobaXTerm (https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/) is also excellent but also only available on Windows (Remmina doesn't quite come close), or maybe WinSCP - apart from those, most other of the software that i use as a software dev is available on Linux distros already, which is lovely to see!