I played around with VMS and GOG and had a lot of fun doing it. (not for everyone: gog has few AAA games, games are generally single-player offline games) two

I played around with VMS and GOG and had a lot of fun doing it. (not for everyone: gog has few AAA games, games are generally single-player offline games) two independent VMs, never run at same time: 1) linux vm that runs lgogdownloader https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader downloads all gog installers to a shared hd device 2) windows 11 vm (installed from windows 11 pro retail usb stick) * vm has no network interface * turned off all annoyances. "windows defender out-of-date" hardest to turn off installed games from shared hd device from #1 play all games offline, no microsoft data collection, no "unity collects data", no worries. for updates, boot linux vm, update repo on shared hd for games, boot win 11 vm