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unless you've actually passed your gpu to the vm, which is something you need to specifically configure, which is not exactly straightforward and will mean your host won't be able to use your gpu, anything requiring any kind of gpu acceleration won't work or will work really badly
i'm not even entirely sure you can even do gpu passthrough on a windows host, it's usually done the other way around
anyway, you can add non-steam games on steam, including pirated games among other things and they will just work over proton (which is just wine under the hood btw), if you want to avoid steam altogether, i would suggest various wine frontends, i keep hearing a lot of good things about bottles, and i actually used it recently for a japanese vn from like early 2000s and they are kinda notorious for being kinda finicky even on windows and it just worked
anyway, if you don't really have much experience with linux, i'd advise against the popular general use case distros like mint/ubuntu etc, and to actually opt for a gaming specific distro
nobara and bazzite seem to be most popular, i never tried anyone of them, but again they seem to be to go to for someone moving from windows as they are more or less preconfigured for gaming in mind (this is especially important if you have an nvidia gpu)
i feel like at this point the only games that won't work on linux are those that have kernel level anti-cheat