windows is a decent gaming platform if your approach it pragmatically.

- do a clean install via usb from the freely available official installers.

- create/login with microsoft account (yes, you must. this is fine).

- run hellzerg/optimizer and check every option.

- avoid entering sensitive information aside from what’s needed (steam/epic credentials, msft account).

for serious work, arch with any windowing setup can be installed on a second ssd.

separate disk makes dual boot easy since you just choose disk via bios boot options.

alpine unfortunately doesn’t have nvidia drivers yet.