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Nothing to deal with, either use a distro that comes with them or download them during install.
You will have to reinstall with your other solution.
Though if you have it on a separate drive you can add them to lutris or steam and use the existing install.
The other commenter was suggesting I replace my perfectly writing setup right now. And you don't need to reinstall applications when you replace hardware - but windows binaries will not run directly on Linux hence they'll need reinstalling in that case.
Create a wine prefix, point it to the binary.
On Lutris this is “add already installed game”
On Steam this is “add non-steam game”
Though if you point your steam library to the location of the games it will detect them as already installed, then you can go to properties and tell it to use proton or set all non-linux games to use proton. (Proton is a wine wrapper with a steam dependency)
Oh, I didn't realise I wanted to run all the games with native Linux versions through WINE.
Tell me, what problem is it that you think you are trying to solve? Because I have a working system already so I know there isn't a problem.
If you're using a win10 version that's EOL, that's not a safe long term solution. But I guess that was inferred rather than asked by the other commentor.
There are notable performance improvements running games under Linux compared to Windows, however.
Yeah I just upgraded to win11 when 10 went eol. It's no big deal.
I mean win11 is still spyware garbage, but it's your pc.