Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux
I don’t think I would consider “games with anti cheat” to be “every pleasure in life”. We’re spoiled for choice in games. I can increasingly narrow the scope of what I’m willing to support with my money every year and still not run out of great games to play.