just delete the service entirely, same with defender
it's great
my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP
if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem
You can't do that. Eventually, something will stop working because it requires a certain Windows update.
You don't really need Windows for gaming anymore unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat. Proton is extremely good on Linux these days.