Still not gaming with it though. Moving forward, I'm pretty sure I'll be building a separate gaming rig that just runs windows, and use linux for everything else.
That is a very real concern. It's not that Linux is perfect it's simply not as bad as the alternatives. One decent resource is lunduke, who maintains a non-woke software list, including specific Linux distros that have maintainers or devs that are not aligned with, or even outright anti-woke. When do himself has some distasteful characteristics, but he's a useful resource for some specific things.
Still better than the alternatives
Still not gaming with it though. Moving forward, I'm pretty sure I'll be building a separate gaming rig that just runs windows, and use linux for everything else.
On phones you have no other option, on PC you have BSD... **use BSD.**
And it is light years beyond trusting Microsoft.