Do it! It’s so easy. It’s also easy to build it up in your head like it’s this big complicated thing. It’s not. When I finally did it my first thought was “why didn’t I do this sooner?”

I’ve been happily using mint for years. Do it.

Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.

I’m on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it “Script Kiddie Arch”. Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.

Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I’d say it’s an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.

Regular use: Mint

Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite

I use nobara. Which, if you google ‘best linux for gaming’, its the first thing that pops up. I have no idea if its actually the best, but i havent had any issues so far.

mint, pop_os, bazzite, fedora, nobara, mx, cachy, zorin

the coolest of those is cachyos probably

bazzite and cachy are intended for gaming but also sutied to other usage

more in detail:

• mint is basically ubuntu without the bad things (snap and canonicals other bullshit)
• pop_os is basically the same thing done differently
• bazzite is immutable (parts of the filesystem are read only, features easy update rollback) and fedora based and intended for gaming
• fedora is a simple and universal desktop distro that tends to try out new interesting technologies
• nobara is fedora with a few improvements
• mx is a simple and easy debian based distro
• cachy is arch but not difficult, has normal stuff preinstalled unlike arch, and is intended for gamers and is intended to let normies be power users
• zorin is another de-canonical-ed ubuntu but weird, it is kinda corporate

Thanks for the advice! I plan on basically gaming half of the time, so… I’ll look into it. And try dual boot just to try everything. Btw, I have all my files on an SSD, together with window 11. Hope it will be possible to keep my files in the process 🫠