Hmm? OpenMW works great on my Gentoo machine. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'm in the middle of my first playthrough of Morrowind on OpenMW. (I mean, it crashes sometimes, but not often enough that it's a problem. Oh, OpenJK had a progression-halting bug when I last played it on Arch, but I got around it.)
I was saying that even with as good as Wine and Proton have gotten for playing Windows games, good quality FOSS engine reimplementations are preferable to Wine/Proton, and it would be great if we could get to the point where 90% of Windows games had FOSS engine reimplementations that would a) allow people to play natively without Wine or Proton, b) remove antifeatures, c) improve the modding scene and otherwise give more insight into how the games work mechanics-wise, d) make more options for engines from which to fork and make new games, e) let me simply increase the FOSS-to-proprietary-software ratio on my personal systems, f) let folks in the community contribute to it, etc.
That's great. Now let's get to where 90% can run on native FOSS engine reimplementations like OpenMW for Morrowind and OpenJK for some of the Jedi Knight games.
I can't imagine you're the only one in this situation. If I were in your shoes, I'd search for similar stories online and see if I could get a sense of how friendly the company is to swapping OSs. For some companies, changing the OS is a complete deal breaker. Other companies are pretty willing to assume the issue was indeed strictly hardware and had nothing to do with changing the OS, and thus will go ahead and do the repair.
If you find that company is more like the former, install Windows. If not, just start the warranty repair process.
"The country". U.S.A.? The respondent's country (whichever that might happen to be)?
Also, presidents mostly don't have complete dictatorial power... the current president of the U.S. notwithstanding, but do you mean for respondents to give answers that a president could realistically make happen, or is the spirit of your question more about what respondents would like to see changed by someone with dictatorial power?
What do Bitcoin and dark web add to the conversation, exactly? That can be done with fiat currencies on the regular-old internet. (It could be done with brick-and-mortor stores, and vinyl, for that matter.)
Whether it could "work" (as in, become popular) is another question, but darknet-only and cryptocurrency-only would make it harder for it to take off than just putting it on the internet and letting people pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal, etc.
