Re: [ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX]
Running Windows10 poses a great security threat for every user. If you check the telemetry data that's being sent to M$, you will understand why they don't have to ask money for it in order for you to get the OS. For what it's worth, I wouldn't be surprised at all if at some point it was revealed that there was a hidden miner service inside in order to mine for bitcoin in every PC... 
Yes, I think you are on to the truth. If all games worked under Linux without so many problems I'd say goodbye to Windows for good. On your thoughts about M$ mining on your hardware without you knowing, I visit a faucet for litecoin and bitcoin, and at some times when certain ads were on the site, my hashrates would plummet, I contacted the owner of the site and after those ads went away now my hashrate doesn't go down anymore, so I think the hashing behind your back thing is happening, if M$ is doing that they should be sued.
Those ads are probably using some script to draw juice from your GPU/CPU power. I don't *REALLY* think that M$ is behind such a task (that would've been ultra bullish for whatever they were mining)
As for games under Linux, I'd propose Crossover (Wineskin equiv. for Mac). Under most circumstances it's perfectly working out with games I've tried and it's quite easy to port them there. I used to have it on an Ubuntu distro back in 2013, but mostly using wineskin now for porting apps from Windows to my Mac. Works every time, give it a go.
Link: https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux/