you ran a BBS back in the day. Same here. I ran Gap on mine using DOS.
These days there are many ways out of the Window environment. Linux will satisfy the average users need easily. I moved away from Windows many years ago. I got tired of all the glitches and fighting with the flaky operating system.
As for games, many run fine in Linux. A Windows based game was the last software that kept me in Windows all those years ago (Tribes). It runs in Linux now of course. Steam has thousands of games available that run in Linux. More than I could possibly play in a lifetime.
I always try to encourage users to move away from Windows. Sadly some are wedded to the monopoly and kludgefest that is Microsoft.
I asked about the games as a way of helping if that is the holdup that keeps you using Windows. Its quite possible they can run in Linux.
As for me I quite enjoy having a stress free relationship with my computer. 
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