that is in fact what happened
the problem isn't a windows license (pirating LTSC is a moral imperative) but the fact that in everyday interactions windows these days got less usable than late 2000s linux desktop
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i've watched my roommate--a person whose technical skills i respect--spend several weeks trying to set up a dual booting nixos/win10 system with uefi
i believe she's on the fifth reinstall from scratch, and having seen that breakage, i know i won't do much better, either
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Used to be in a tiny IRC channel with someone that used Xen to be able to run Windows for gaming with PCIe passthrough. 90% of their posts in that channel (not really a technical channel) was complaining about PCIe passthrough breaking and asking for help debugging it.
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yeah I've tried it, hit an issue with PAT/MTRR and write combining ranges in graphical memory, tried fixing it, decided KVM it is (I might actually set up KVM with PCIe passthrough if wine doesn't work out)
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I personally prefer having Windows on a totally different machine for gaming. For some reason I still have my better GPU in my workstation from back when I thought dual booting was a good idea but... that'll be fixed when I replace it with a new workstation.
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I have a spare TB nvme waiting for me to drop linux on it in my big workstation, and I've been looking at various distros update behavior in fear. I think systemd-boot is going to be ok, but half the distros hold it wrong
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I have quite literally been considering starting a distro just to get sane updates and reasonable systemd purity recently.
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I've used a 2TB Samsung 960 Pro NVMe drive as the only drive in my workstation for several years with zero issues.
I just use EFISTUB and if a kernel regression breaks something, I can boot up the LTS kernel via the annoying UEFI menu.
Never had any issues with using NVMe.
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What I mean is they have bad behavior if they have to share a UEFI ESP
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When I used to dual boot, I had Windows on a completely separate drive with a separate ESP and I'd just tell UEFI to boot from that drive when I wanted to use Windows.
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The Windows install that I have now is that same drive, moved to an older computer. It was pretty unhappy about that and made me deal with some activation annoyance but since I bought some OEM activation key for $20 on Amazon I'd have happily bought another anyway.