Yeah, you’d need to dual boot or run virtual machine or run wine- I chose dual boot- it’s a little complicated, but not real bad- once set up- it’s good to go- I do sim racing on windows- and do it only at night- durign day I do the internet so it’s linux all day-
One thought- You could run a steam application on linux which has tons of windows games (that were converted to work on linux) that will supposedly run under linux- I Haven’t done this so can’t reply on how well it works- several people on Fr said it does work well- and there are many popular windows games that can be played-
There are also several youtube vid rippers available for firefox that can download vids-
I get the feeling you empathize with my “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude. ;-)