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Take Fedora, as you're already used to it. Steam handles Windows games for you. In 99% of cases they just work. Only games that do not run nowadays are games with unsupported kernel level anti cheat. Look at https://areweanticheatyet.com/ to see if your games are supported. A VM won't help you as that is usually blocked by such anti cheat as well.
If you do have a problem with a non-multiplayer game look at https://protondb.com/.
For games from GOG, Epic or Amazon use Heroic. For every other store you can add the launcher or just the game itself to Heroic.
I just want a VM for my 10 year old cracked version of photoshop and some other apps. I never intended to game on a VM.
Of you're going foss for your OS why not take a look at Krita and gimp for your image editing needs?
I've not tried either in years at this point hut can't hurt to check them out if you haven't already.
I tried GIMP but just cannot get used to it. Heard there are some ways to make the tools and shortcuts behave like PS though just never tried it.
Have you tried the newest release? It seems to be more PS leaning, at least that's what I hear from PS experts.
I last tried it like a year ago.
Didn't try it but FYI maybe PhotoGIMP could make GIMP usable for you!
Peobably what I heard of before. Thanks for the link, will take a look.