Today is a good day to drop windows. There are plenty of nice alternatives, do not delay if you don't want nasty surprises, use Linux:
https://distrowatch.com/Of course, as I explained elsewhere, your leisure activities and your money should be separate. So if you insist in keeping a "windows gaming computer", at least install Linux in another one and keep your serious stuff there.
Another Linux elitist. This is easily preventable if the user don't really play with torrents and keep it clean on their computer, doing regular scans and avoiding downloading on direct links, especially on websites that are plagued with ads that would surely contain adware/malware on the side. I keep my games, downloaded files, and a lot more stuff in the same computer but I haven't encountered any such thing, not even once.
And I'm running Windows, and you should understand that not all are familiar with the UI of Linux.