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Edit: Re-read your question, you are talking about games in general. A Switch might be a good buy, straightforward and you can usually find people willing to play in person or online for the more popular games. The games are rarely on sale though. Highly recommend a pro controller if you go this route.
For PC, there’s basically never kernel level anti-cheat, only a few frankly not great games go that route.
As far as expensive goes, there’s a ton of great PC games you can get for less than $5 during steam sale. The initial buy-in is more for a maybe $1500 PC, but you will make that up after a few dozen games. If you know a PC gaming enthusiast, imply you would play with them if you had a PC and they might sell you an old rig for dirt cheap. I’ve sold a few that way for like $100.
Set-up is easy as steam is the only program you need and controllers are plug-and-play. If you are willing to risk a little work, I found Linux Mint as an OS really easy to install and use, and then it will be future-proof (unlike windows) as well as free. You may have to troubleshoot something weird, but their forums are super helpful.
I use Arch, OS is taken care of. Awesome documentation, and I don't have to care about version upgrades because there's no such thing. I still don't know how to properly update Debian. Though Mint has GUI for that, so it's fine there.
The bootstrap image is also pretty cool. I wanted Arch on a VPS, but I couldn't boot any installer. I could however use provided Debian rescue environment to download the bootstrap image, chroot into it and use that as an installer. Really cool thing.
Considering that Steam comes pre-installed on Manjaro, that should be fine. Or at least it did when I tried it.