I might be rejected entering the US, all though I dont really have any future plans to ever visit, but Elmo seems to fully fit the description "Needy Baby, Greedy Baby"
Give it a try and you most likely wont regret it. Linux has come a long way since the general statement what you want game on it. I purchased a Asus ROG laptop about a year ago and installed Manjaro Linux on it (spare the hate) and its been working flawlessly. With that said. I'm not a hard core gamer and been sticking to Steam and console emulation so others with more time to play games should flank in.
Windows has it's upsides imo. My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it.... Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-