Windows 7 upgrade? i recently got a gaming rig and i need to get a new operating system...

No reason to stop using Win7. 10 is botnet, Linux has no games. Everything still works with 7. Directx 12 is overrated.

Plenty of games run on Linux just fine. In fact, some even perform better on Linux.

Yes, if you don't bother having a small watermark and don't getting any updates you can use it for free.

As windows updates are often breaking, and the updater doesn't work 90% of the time, I would even consider this a feature

I have a Ryzen 7 2700 and RX Vega 56 running Mint 19.3. Everything works just fine on Steam.

Running an out of date windows version on a PC connected to the internet will turn your windows 10 faster into a botnet than the installation of windows 10 takes

Use Windows 7 you imbacil.

I'm glad that you enjoy all of your 10 games, but OP got a gaming rig and wants something more than that.

Clueless idiot.

Depends, many games work file with wine (or proton, which is just a glorified wine distribution), but remember, when using Linux you need to be at least somewhat tech savy, you also need to make sure that the hardware you bought has linux support (e.g. linux often has problems with very new mainboards and some NVidia graphics cards) and you need to be prepared that if something isn't working properly (which will be the case, especially on newly released hardware) that it might take days to fix something (until you decide to simply wait for the next kernel update and hope the problem goes away)

i'm sure pirate bay can fix this... r-right?

Yes.