I’ve been a fan of the dual boot option (sometimes separate hard drives)
Boot PC. Press F8. Select Windows drive and boot to windows 10 for gaming.
Most of time it defaults to Linux and that’s where i live the other 97% of the time
I have the same setup on my laptop. There’s always something easier on Windows whether I like it or not and it’s good to have the option.
Never had an issue with them coexisting.
If you can, set this up on your router and then specify which devices should route through.
You may also want to use pihole for ad blogging and as your DNS server. and in pihole use your VPN server’s DNS such that you don’t have DNS leak.
And if the VPN is down, your computer won’t work until it comes back up.
Helpful if you run the network at your house