Also: even if Linux gaming is getting better everyday thanks to lots of work by contributors and companies (Valve, Codeweavers, hey even Nvidia recently, etc), as a developer I get to do enough software spelunking at work, and I'm supremely happy to pay the small cost of periodically dealing with MS bullshit.

The small cost of dealing with $ms_bullshit_du_jour is a periodical { 1. sigh, 2. find & run some PowerShell snippet to uninstall or disable the bullshit, 3. be done with it till next time } sequence, but the large benefit is the guarantee to be running games on the de-facto standard platform where they are end-to-end tested by the game devs/QA !

Games are complexity beasts by nature, and I have high fidelity & stability expectations; I don't want an extra source of trouble. (Yes, even if I would absolutely prefer to run games on Linux! All my other machines run Linux)! Until Steam{OS, Deck} gets enough usage to be routinely tested by 90% of the games shipping on Steam, both AAA & indies, for me Linux gaming is a case of "I would absolutely love to, but for now, thanks / no thanks" .