Don’t use Windows. I’m sorry but it’s not great software. I’ve managed hundreds of servers with it on there and it’s always a huge pain in the ass. I run Fedora Linux and it’s great, if that’s too technical, you could do an Ubuntu spin, like Mint. Windows is also resource heavy and insecure. Grab a thumb drive and flash a live image and boot to it and see what you think. I promise you, you’ll probably like it.

And if you’re thinking, what about my games, Valve has made so much effort to make Windows games run on Linux, because of their SteamOS, which is Linux.

I wonder if you’d enjoy:
Frostpunk
It’s a bit too short in my opinion, but fun. It does rounds of building and preparing then you have to endure the winter.

Equally along those same lines, Timberborn is really cool. It’s another city builder, but with beavers. You have to survive waves of drought.