Michael
There may be a 6th option: you could check out Steam OS or Bazzite and see if all your games run in them.
I'm not a gamer but I've been following those who are that have jumped from Win to Linux and have been surprised at how well games run on either of these.
best
Sam




> > My wife has the only Windows 10 box in the house.  Its processor fails
> the Microsoft
> requirements and also can't be upgraded.
> ALL her apps (Thunderbird, Chromium, LibreOffice, Gimp) are available in
> Linux, so no
> problem there.
>
> The problem is games, of which we have copious quantities, most of which
> have problems
> running on Wine.
>
> My possible solutions to the problem include:
> 1) Most obvious, buy a new PC and upgrade to Win 12!
> 2) Follow lots of web advice for tricking Windows into installing Win 12
> anyway, but I would
> have to image the disk and practice on the image.
> 3) Make the PC dual boot Windows and Linux, disable Win updates and
> remove all web
> facing applications from it. Boot into Win 10 only for games.
> 4) Convert the Win 10 into an image, install Linux and run Win 10 in a VM.
> 5) As stupid as it sounds, keep the Win 10 box isolated and boot it only
> when we want to
> play games, which is a migration step to 4) at a later date.
>
> I will consider any alternative that costs money, but no alternative
> that involves paying
> Microsoft, such as the extended Security Update program.
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