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Depends on what types of games you want to play. If you play a lot of competitive multiplayer games you're gonna have a bad time.
More people need to say that if you're going to want ring 0, I'm not going to give you my money.
...which is a completely valid point if you don't mind not playing those games. But if you do want to play them (for example because back when you got to love them, they didn't have this), you have yourself a dilemma.
Unless you want to play against a shitload of cheaters every day (ruining the fun whenever you have 30 minutes to wind down), your game should have a decent enough AC to detect when someone loads a cheat, including the lowest level. And guess who doesn't have a problem with 3rd party programs accessing ring 0.
So there you have it, you either stop playing all multiplayer games (not even just competitive ones!) entirely, or stick with Windows and all the awful things that come with it. I've been wanting to switch to Linux for the past 20 years, have been playing various multiplayer games over the past 2 decades, and it was always either the AC or just the sheer incompatibility (especially in the earlier years). There was even a time when people could happily cheat on Linux and get away with it in Counter-Strike: Source, because VAC simply didn't work on Linux.
There's plenty of multiplayer games that run just fine on linux. Including FPS games with perfectly functional anti cheat, it's just a select few which are unfortunately very popular that actively block linux. This is the part where you put your money where your mouth is and support the games that support the system you want to game on.
That sounds better - now I just wish those were the games that I play.
Try other games? Whatever kind of game you like, there's likely a less invasive alternative. We're no longer in the era of game scarcity.
I wish it was that simple... though I do like my games enough that it's a pretty unpleasant choice either way, my friends who play also refuse to change games just for my sake, and they don't mind using Windows. Therefore I can basically stop playing with them, or stick with this rubbish.