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Depends. I'm still keeping win10 (but haven't booted into it in months), just in case when on a game night something refuses to work on linux and I can just boot to windows and game with my friends. I'm not going to start troubleshooting then and there, doubly because in general alcohol is involved during those friday night gaming sessions.
The day for repurposing those partitions is coming closer though.
It sucks that you have to maintain it though. If you don't update from time to time, you'll have to update windows, steam, the game and probably thr gpu drivers as well.
I sincerely hope that Linux becomes at least mainstream enough to not have compatibility issues. It's still not something I would recommend to people that don't know how (or don't want) to troubleshoot issues. If installed linux on my mom's laptop she'd be constantly reaching out to figure out how to do/solve stuff.