The only difficult part as a newcommer are the installation process, partitioning and choosing between different things you pretty much know shit about.
Anything debian or debian based is a good start
KDE plasma for that windows feel
Learn how your particular package manager works and thats it.
Unless you have some compatibility issue, it’s pretty much straight forward.
Gaming has its things, but it is super doable. I have been a debian usdr for 14 years, but kept a winfows partition for gaming. 2 months ago switched to arch for gaming. So far, i have played +10 games with no issues, steam pretty much just works and lutris (think of it as a foss game launcher) needed some tweaks, but is pretty good.
If you have doubts, you can always try it on a virtual machine, meaning, you dont risk anything.
The only difficult part as a newcommer are the installation process, partitioning and choosing between different things you pretty much know shit about.
Anything debian or debian based is a good start KDE plasma for that windows feel Learn how your particular package manager works and thats it.
Unless you have some compatibility issue, it’s pretty much straight forward.
Gaming has its things, but it is super doable. I have been a debian usdr for 14 years, but kept a winfows partition for gaming. 2 months ago switched to arch for gaming. So far, i have played +10 games with no issues, steam pretty much just works and lutris (think of it as a foss game launcher) needed some tweaks, but is pretty good.
If you have doubts, you can always try it on a virtual machine, meaning, you dont risk anything.