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I think I'll run my gaming computer on its own isolated network and do a reinstall of Win10 every month or so rather than install Win11 (or pay MS for patches lol; like wtf, I might pirate those just out of principal). Win11 is genuinely that bad of an OS from my limited experience with it.

Not that Win10 is drastically better, but at least you can turn off most of the dumb Win10 things that Win11 will absolutely force down your throat, given half a chance.

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I've switched to Linux/Proton which has worked for basically anything I care to play these day.

I did the same earlier this year and have been very happy with how well Linux meets my desktop computing and gaming needs. For the most part, the Steam games I play just work under Proton. There have been a few cases where I needed to force it to use a particular version of Proton, but that's easy enough to do.

What's great about Linux is that the computer actually serves me again, instead of trying to extract value from me.

If it's not networked, what's the benefit to monthly reinstalls? Or do you mean still give it internet access but isolate and regularly wipe in case it gets malware?

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