I was thinking fluxbox the window manager.

Did Novel git gud?

The big ones for general use are Ubuntu and Fedora. KDE is gonna feel most windows like on any distro.

If you want something security focused there’s quebesOS that breaks everything out into VMs. For gaming there’s bazzite which is just modified fedora and several other gaming spins like steamOS.

I assume you mean corporate workstations? The EU is currently on that.

Other than that a handful of games and legacy software/hardware.

Is anything worth cracking? GTA 6 will be. But what has come out recently is worth the effort?

They are in order to get away from American products

I get really tired of rebooting just for a single round. A full 2nd machine would be more convenient but that means another CPU, RAM, MB, PSU, SSD, case, wires and more desk space. Try at your own risk, warning there be dragons. I’m a Gentoo user with older AMD cards your milage may vary

If you have the hardware for it you can run windows in a VM with GPU passthrough to a 2nd GPU