You have no other option with specific multiplayer games, of which, you can duel boot and use Windows exclusively for. But most games you can get running on Linux, a lot without even trying and just work these days.
Or is Microsoft a giant monopoly and there's no real competition in the desktop operating system market. Forcing everyone to use their OS regardless?
My point originally on this article though, the vast majority of people just use Windows to browse the web, store and view some photos and videos, maybe do some document or spreadsheet work, and that's about it, which all can be done on Apple or Linux OS's, yet we've not see any kind of mass migration, even though for the last 30 years, every Windows release comes with comments about the new version being a "dumpster fire"...