The reasons to do this from a practical point of view are so niche I would never recommend it to anyone.
If you need it you already know it and have done it without asking how.
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Yeah, basically this. There are so many passthrough evangelists out there that it doesnāt need to be said.
I use it, but only because I like the challenge.
Thanks for all the input.
As it wonāt affect my main/work system anyway, I think Iām going to give Manjaro a chance, as its packages are potentially slightly more stable than Endeavour and Manjaro offers a minimal XFCE install which should probably not be more bloated than Endevour. If this proves ton not be to my liking I might switch to Debian/Testing or Debian/Stable+backports instead.
Once I have time Iām going to install it and figure out how to set up the user and group ids and permissions to restrict write/read access to my other partitions. Donāt worry, I donāt expect perfect security from this, itās more about limiting the effects of bugs like eg this one https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
As long as you donāt end up distrohopping youāll be fine.
Do you want this thread marked solved and closed?
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I do know about gpu passthrough and that at least with win10 there is looking glass, but this likely wont work out for me.
I only have one gpu; the newest windows license I own is win7 and after all the trouble windows gave me Iām reluctant to buy a newer license.
And with all that trouble windows was causing me, eating away from my play time. I believe it might not be entirely unrealistic to assume, that ā even though only some games are native linux and some tweaking will be required ā I might still spent less time maintaining and fixing the āgaming osā than before. With virtualisation and passthrough I would still end up needing to run and maintain Windows. I am just much more familiar with linux 
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But this will vary depending on the person and the situation; for some passthrough might be ideal.
I was running a setup like yours for a long time and it was a partition mess of my hard drives. Thatās why I opted for getting windows off of baremetal. Having that one GPU is definitely a factor to consider. But ultimately it really depends on your use case.
I am not familiar with the distro you are settling on but Linux is Linux to me. I am a disciple of Linux From Scratch and have successfully completed that project. Running a lean Linux system is definitely nice and going full virtualization with say Promox certainly gets you close to running a lean system with the frills of a distro. Thatās my 2 cents worth.
Good luck!
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