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Ok a better question, what CANT it do that windows can?

(Caveat: I am still on Mint 17.3 -- haven't bothered to upgrade to 18 yet)

Literally the only things where I need to use Windows are:

Turbotax (there are Linux packages that can help with taxes, but I've been using Turbotax for so many years, I just don't want to switch)
Office 365 (I use LibreOffice for my personal stuff, but for work, I need to actually run real MS Office). Wine will support up to Office 10, but the Office 2016 that is sent out with the current Office 365 isn't supported through Wine yet)

When I'm in the mood for games, I run Steam (which is perfectly supported in Linux, so no need to mess with Windows there).

For the Windows software needs, what I do is run a virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I dedicate 4 GB of RAM and 3 computer cores to the virtual machine and that seems to be plenty. Since I have 16 GB of RAM and a 6 core processor, I can basically run both simultaneously. And both do perfectly OK.

mark- i have steam on my windows boot os- how do i get it on linux? Do i need a special version of linix? I’d like to play my games on linux (dues ex- F.E.A.R- etc not too taxing older games) if possible- be much easier rather than dual booting- and i can finally almost get rid of windows altogether (expect for photoshop- need to run photoshop for photography- doesn’t run well in VM or wine-)