Eg, I ran Server 2003 (instead of XP), Server 2012 R2 (instead of 8.1), and finally, Server 2016 (instead of Win 10).
Much less bloat. Not sustainable for an enterprise deployment, but for my home use it worked quite well.
When it works. CSGO claims to work on Linux but has stopped working for many months now. There is a fix that includes changing a library but you risk getting banned by anticheat.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2659
It has been going on for almost a year.
If you want to game, you should just to dual boot Windows or buy a console.
I was ruthless in tearing out cruft. To me this made the consumer versions seem quicker and more stable. I have absolutely no flight sim use case now for any of the Windows OSes, past or present.