[piaste]

> I use Linux for most things and only boot into Windows for games. Wintendo is a real thing.

> I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar.

Lutris/Steam with Proton works wonderfully nowaday!

The main caveat is if you enjoy multiplayer gaming, it often require extensive low-level access to your Windows environment for anti-cheating purposes. Wintendo is the correct approach in that case; VFIO is an option, but afaik some anti-cheat systems will detect that they're running inside a VM.

Most security concerns go out of the window (pun not intended) when the most sensitive information your OS has access to is your Steam account, which has 2FA against a separate non-Windows device.