Yeah, from what I know only SteamVR really works at all and not that well. Given that I probably can’t afford a Valve Index or a HTC Vive Pro2, I’ll use Windows for VR with a Meta Quest 3. My main OS would probably be Garuda Linux.

I’ll still be sticking to a dual-boot when I get a new PC, mainly for VR.

I still remember hearing about a Ring 0 exploit in Windows (I may be misremembering, though) that required Ring 0 access. I think if an attacker has access to Ring 0, you’re already screwed anyway.

VR is literally the only reason my next PC will still have Windows.

Gimp and Blender are both available on Linux. VS Code is on Linux (most coding stuff is on Linux). Linux file explorers work pretty well (Dolphin, for example). I’d recommend Kubuntu, KDE neon or Linux Mint for the distro, all are pretty similar in appearance to Windows. It won’t take much learning with them.

Wine can run most of those, not all. You can still dual boot Windows if you need to (VMs are an option, but they aren’t always the best).