Many GOG games do not run on Win 10.
M$ is trying to force people onto windows 10, it seems.

Win 10 or GOG.

I am going to continue using Windows 7 64-bit until 2040, just like I still use Windows XP and to some extent I still use Windows Vista 64-bit.

I have five PC's in my room hooked up one for Windows XP, one for Windows Vista, one for Windows 7, one for Windows 8, one for Windows 8.1, and one for Windows 10.

i will continue to use win 10 as i have since it came out.

What am I going to do? keep using Win 10 probably.

Linustechtips did a good video talking about this very issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHBBN0CqXk

I tend to ignore people who spell MS as M$. Usually they have a preconceived opinion and any discussion is useless.

I never had any intention of using Win 10 so have already moved on to Linux. Keeping my Win 7 machine for offline use though. If you automatically ignore people because you assume they have a different opinion to you then yes, discussion is useless.

No, I don't ignore people who have a different opinion. Those are the ones I'm happy to discuss with.

I ignore people who are juvenile about it. People who have a preconceived notion and are not asking for a discussion but for a confirmation of something.

It's my experience that people who spell "M$" fall into the latter category.

This was just an advice to the OP. If you want people to take you seriously, spell a company's name normally.

Really you have several options:-

1. Use Linux and get as many games to work as possible.

2. Use the least bloated version of W10 and / or lock it down as much as possible. (It's not hard to figure out how and why some gamers are using the de-bloated Enterprise LTSC).

3. Carry on using W7 (hint: People still use XP and support for that ended years ago). Truth is most malware infections come from user stupidity (eg, opening "Free Money.pdf.exe" e-mail attachments, downloading files from iffy sites) or browser level vulnerabilities or things like not changing your router's default password (which can potentially compromise everything including all W10 PC's if the DNS settings are quietly changed to a compromised DNS server), rather than OS specific vulnerabilities. A W7 PC running ublock and / or noScript + whitelisted Firewall is probably 10x more secure in practise than W10 browser running every script that passes through every page + a blacklist only Firewall... If you're truly paranoid, there's also no reason why it needs to be online either. Eg, you could have two PC's or even dual boot say Linux (online) + W7 (offline gaming) with zero security issues. Web security is after all, a non issue if you unplug from the web. :-)

This

Well, I'm also gonna laugh my ass off, because I'm not as mature as Mr. Brussels Sprouts here. :P

Good luck playing a bunch of AAA PC versions of video games on Linux since most of them will never ever get ported and released for sale on Linux.

Continue using it for as long as I see fit?

Continue using this Windows 8.1 pc for online use and my Windows 7 pc for offline use as it has been used for some time.

It is a bit rubbish but luckily I'm one of those people who can enjoy playing the same games over and over so don't need as many new ones. Plus, my husband keeps buying console games that I probably spend more time playing than he does ha ha ha!

Nothing. I already moved to Linux years ago due to not liking where things were headed with Windows 8 and fully switched (no more dual-boot) when I built my new system a couple of years ago. I also wrote a Linux Mint beginner's guide if anyone's interested in trying it: Adamhm's Linux Mint Beginner's Guide.
Not with your attitude :p To get more AAA releases on Linux more people need to start using Linux in order to attract the AAA publishers.

In the meantime, Valve have somewhat got things covered in that regard thanks to their considerable support of Wine and related projects such as DXVK (as well as their contributions to improve the wider Linux ecosystem in general), and SteamPlay/Proton providing a nearly seamless experience for playing many Windows games on Linux. The biggest blockers now seem to be DRM and anti-cheat software.