Why it matters is because there are different workarounds for different games. Some can run just fine in a VM. Others have wine tricks or proton tricks that you can use. Still others run dockerized on winboat.

Being evasive just means that people have to give you generalized solutions that may or may not work for your particular scenario. Help could exist for you, but you’ll never know.

Depends on the anti cheat. GTA V runs just fine on a vm with sunshine/moonlight using proxmox with GPU passthrough.

My mom was running slackware for a couple of years in the early 2000s. She kept downloading viruses on her computer and I was tired of her having her ship it across the country so I could fix it. I installed slackware on her computer and shipped it back, and walked her through setting up a port forward on her router for ssh access. She had no idea she was running Linux the entire time until she went to Walmart to buy Peachtree Accounting software. She couldn’t get it to install, so she called and asked for help. I got in with SSH and installed KMyMoney for her and she used that for a year.

It lasted up until she bought a laptop, one that came with Windows 7 I think. I stopped helping her after that because I didn’t really remember how to use Windows anymore. Windows had a subscription antivirus at that point, before Defender days, and she just paid for that.