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My only extreme concern, is, I run a Nvidia system. And even if my current list works, I'd be concerned about future games.
Nvidia will probably be even better supported in the future and opensource drivers are getting close to proprietary feature sets.
Wayland support has also been improving in major ways so we can have fractional scaling, HDR and all those nice things soonish.
Then in general there will be an even bigger push for games to support Linux via DXVK, Wine etc to support Steam Deck.
I would recommend trying out dual boot setup for a while and then deleting Windows when you're ready.
I know some Linux users trash talk Nvidia on Linux like it just a piece of shit. But it's simply okay. Don't get me wrong it's not great. But it works.
But if you have a simple setup it will probably work. My SO PC has a rtx 2060 and one monitor and it works fine.
You can of course always dual boot. I still have windows for VR gaming and just in case. I do recommend a stable os with Nvidia (especially if you just starting out with Linux). Something like pop os. Don't go with arch just for the meme.
With dual booting you can try Linux and test if it's okay for you. If not just give the disk space back to windows. If not great keep using Linux.
I have used nVidia on OpenSUSE since 2017, it has been 100% fine, no issues. it may help that nVidia maintains their own OpenSUSE repo for leap and tumbleweed etc
I'm also running NVIDIA (RTX 4070), and while I did have to try drivers from a few different sources, I eventually got it working pretty quickly.
But my mistake was choosing an OS that doesn't bundle non-free drivers (Fedora), from what I've heard some distros like Ubuntu come with NVIDIA support by default, so I guess that's also an option.
Nvidia hosts their own RPM packages for OpenSUSE and I believe Fedora. On new installs it is just adding the nvidia repo
True, but iirc there are several alternatives, from different repositories, and i was unlucky enough that j choose the wrong one for the first time.
I'm on an Ubuntu derivative called Mint, and on the first boot it gave me a pop up from the driver tool recommending that I change to the proprietary driver with an option for one click automatic download and install.
You are correct that this is detected and handled.
Nvidia drivers are mostly bad for Wayland afaik. Games shouldn't be particularly problematic.