Cool, i looked at pci passthrough long ago, but it needed motherboard support from what i remember. Dont know if my current one does. But anyway, wouldn’t cpu performance be worse with this setup ?
Why this vs dual boot ? There is some convenience i guess since you can do everything from within linux. These days, gaming on linux is much better. Most games on steam should run, competitive games with some type of anticheats being the biggest exception.
I’d personally just use VM and stick to Windows
I took my work out of windows, had to work a bit for it. Eventually will take most of my gaming out of it too.
Gaming is almost there for me, but will know when i try. Need good HDR/wayland support with Nvdia. Never thought it could get this far but steam (+amd i guess) really got it all together. I dont play multiplayer ( too addictive )
Not that worse. There are few small hiccups though which are negligible. I have assigned 4 cores and 8 threads to the VM and 2 to the host. I’m looking to upgrade to 12 core.
Due to privacy and spying concerns. Microsoft cannot be trusted with our personal and private data. I do have dual boot, but just as a backup.
ok, i just encrypt my linux partitions by default for similar reason to avoid any data access/modification from windows. There is still some risk of bootloader being messed up somehow, which i guess you wont have with VM.
Again installed Windows 11
Could not install xbox so came back to Windows again
You can keep both too by dual booting. That’s what i do. Just need to install to different partitions or to different disks.
Anyway, were you able to run Cyberpunk/W3 on Linux ? That would give clue whether your gpu has issue.
I could not as somehow secure boot got enabled and it started giving error to boot again so I installed Windows 11 again.
That is fine for protecting data in case of being stolen physically like laptops but windows cannot even understand ext4/btrfs filesystem partitions let alone access data on them.
We have windows drivers for ext4. I have accessed linux data from windows in past. Its not a big deal, same as how we can access ntfs/fat32 from linux.
Anyway, i did not mean microsoft specifically, it can be anything installed on windows. Its a tiny risk, but i keep all work stuff on linux and it does not take much effort to turn on encryption during install.
Could have disabled it again. Anyway, now you have some idea on how to install.
You can always use a distro that works with secure boot on. Fedora works out of the box, Arch can be configured too, and by extension Cachy-OS also can be configured to work with secure boot. If gaming is your main focus here, at least for testing, Cachy OS is a good option, it sets up a lot of things out of the box. Gamepass or battle.net probably still wont work though, not too sure about these.
Alternatively you can just turn off secure boot altogether, windows 11 doesn’t need secure boot to work. Some anti cheats for games like Valorant and BF6 will complain about it though.
Can’t wait for SteamOS lol. Hopefully it will solve some issues… even Nvidia drivers are pretty good these days since they fixed Wayland support (some distros can use systemd-boot instead of the usual Grub2 and Secure Boot works just fine on those, even with nvidia drivers… but no grub menu, etc… its UEFI → systemd-boot → kernel)
But I’ve pretty much moved to macOS only for my desktop as well as laptop (Mac Mini M4 @ home, MBA M4 @ business)
macOS has native Microsoft Office so that helps a lot compared to my Linux days when I had to shuffle dual boot… for other Windows apps, I have a Windows 11 LTSC VM running on Qemu in my home server (which runs Debian btw). I run tailscale, and just RDP into it when I need TallyPrime/old .NET business software which use Crystal Reports)
Games… I don’t play much these days anymore. Have an Ambernic handheld so that I can replay old SNES JRPGS or FF7.
Use gentoo 
First Linux I used (Ubuntu 5.10) needed Kernel patching and recompilation because no network drivers… I got the disc via post lol.
I was a teenager… I took a print out of all the steps to do, burned the required .deb files and kernel source .bz2 files to a CD-R, did every trial and error just to get LAN working.
I’ve done Gentoo, Arch too… then I became old. 
I guess you mean WSL which need to be installed manually on windows by running a command or 3rd party software because by default windows doesn’t come with ext4/btrfs read/write capability last time I checked.
Not by default, but we have 3rd party ext4 drivers, just google for it.
Anyway ..
Why even after disabling secure it’s turning back on after a restart?
I tried several and restore to all defaults also once but to no avail.
Either motherboard CMOS battery is dying (easy to check this by turning off the pc for an hour from the wall socket it is plugged into incl any ups) & then turn on & see the time in bios. If time is correct then cmos battery should be fine else not. If cmos battery is fine then check that your primary drive having OS (windows/linux) is in GPT partition style & not MBR (you can check that in disk management in windows).
I checked the cmos battery one problem everyday but the date shows correctly.
Next thing is the MBR partition but mine is GPT partition.
Even when I was in linux yesterday I disabled it installed linux but after I switched secure boot on again linux didn’t switch on so I tried to turn off secure boot but it didn’t switch off.
So I download Windows 11 and installed it.
Secure Boot is very nitpicky. Only assured way to get it to work is to use something like good ol’ Arch Linux and use systemd-boot instead of Grub2 as your boot loader (which 99.9% of all distros use by default).
systemd-boot just boots the kernel and only works in UEFI mode (not Legacy/CSM/BIOS mode).
But you get no modules, no multi boot setup, I don’t even think you can boot the init in ZFS directly (no fancy filesystems, encryption etc).
UEFI → systemd-boot → kernel
So you get full Secure Boot support even when using the nvidia drivers.
But Arch… oh boy… You do not want to go into that rabbit hole. No… those fancy Archinstall setup scripts don’t help much, you’ll install Grub2 and you’ll be stuck again (unless you keep a close eye on what you do). Best if you have to go the good ol’ method of Arch Installation guide. 
…Hope you are not married/with kids… I once wasted time till 4AM customising Arch before being yelled at by wifey.