Can’t you just spend a day away from computers
I hate Windows so much it's unreal. Looks like I will spend new year eve without my PC.
Install Linux from Scratch.
As suggested with Wine, the number of programs can be vastly expanded. Not all of em will run, for example I couldn't make Shogun 2 run. But I got another release recently maybe that'll work. Sometimes it's fiddly to figure out what dlls are needed (see: Winetricks).
On the other hand some older games don't run on newer Windows, and they are fine on Linux/Wine.
Linux from Scratch was a joge, piling upon the classic Gentoo and might be half serious openSUSE.
As for Wine, it's serious. These days some other programs can help out such as PlayOnLinux, and stuff. It's really not that hard.
What really sucks is TES and Fallout 3+ games for me. They lag often and no tweaks (mods and config file edits) help. I think it's the sound, all audio files should be extracted from bsa-s and converted from mp3 to ogg. This solution fixes the radio lag for sure in F3 and New Vegas. I believe this has to be done with all the other sounds as well. In TES too. Not in Morrowind, for Morrowind I just use OpenMW, and should everyone.
Because Windows really is shit, both in usability, and what can be done with it, and yes in the freedom RMS preaches about (I really agree with him in this).
I left Windows in 2008. Since then I use various Linux distros. I still helping out people friends, family, acquaintances with their computer stuff, and I nearly get braindick every time I have to sit 10+ minutes in front of Windows, so unusable. I converted a handful of people already to Linux (even women), and I won't stop doing that.
I don't game that much, I do more "work", and I enjoy such theoretical brain-teasers like the crap I wrote about the TES and F games. Last time I installed Skyrim, instead of playing I started to write a mod manager bash script. Then I stopped because I lost interest in Skyrim. Maybe one day I'll finish it. The script I mean.