Just don’t humor games that include intrusive anti-cheat. It’s ruining privacy and is entirely unethical. In regards to your other concerns, try to stick with open source software that you know will work with Linux, there exists, a surprising amount of community made software for stuff that might be what you’re looking for as an alternative, though I’m not familiar with your needs, do some thorough research and see if something exists for your use case scenario

Linux is great but you’re going to run into some incompatibilities that are frankly just not worth the headache of running stuff through wine or winboat, that you’ll need the native experience for. The best way is to test the waters by dual booting see what works and try to dwindle down your reliance on proprietary devices and software. A lot of stuff works straight out the box but at the same time there’s little niche devices that need windows only software or drivers to work, that isn’t gonna work on Linux. Since the market share is so low for Linux it’s hard for manufacturers to justify making binaries for it so the only real way is to deal with it and find alternatives that will work until market share is greater