First Gen, the game is fucking broken as fuck. But it's also the most memorable and iconic one. I think with little tweaking in types and mechanics in Gen 1, you could have the perfect pokémon game.
But since it was the first, a lot of shit wasn't discovered and explored.
You make it sound as if I have to evade the police and steal it from a store lmao. It's pretty openly available and even a simple utility like RUFUS can disable all the shit in the iso itself before making it a bootable drive.
There's an infodump on cracking Denuvo by MKDEV on their discord channel. It's something only they and EMPRESS have done so far.
I think cracking denuvo is a long and arduous task but you can try the newer Football Manager (they only cracked those games) as it won't be much different and they already answer queries on their discord regarding cracking.
Specifically talking about India, people started buying PCs when they first used it in offices or cyber cafes back in early 00s. And windows was the obvious best choice. Apart from that, the GUI was always very convenient for home use cases too.
Not really. Offices were one of the major early adopters of computers and windows is perfect for them with plethora of features they offered right out of the package.
Windows GUI was groundbreaking, their text processing and excel was a game changer, and windows doesn't allow you to delete your own boot partition with a sudo command so it was pretty idiot proof.
Once windows had the majority of marketshare, it was pretty obvious that whoever was buying PCs (back in the day it was more that a dad got a PC from his office or bought one which was similar), got it with windows.
Also almost every tool/software has a windows version of it because it's just so widely used.
And yes, driver support for Linux is really unreliable.