Linux for me ends up being more of a hobby than a tool and I haven’t had the time or patience to deal with it in the past.
Even though I switched to Linux a couple of years back for all my private machines that’s exactly why I never recommend it even to my tech-savvy friends. You have to be comfortable having to tinker every now and then. However, that’s honestly true for Windows, too. You just have to keep in mind that for non-rolling releases a distribution upgrade is like a Windows version change (and the move from Win 7 to 10 was far from smooth for many).
So, that considered, I think one of the best Linux distributions to get started with minimal tinkering and terminal usage is Mint (Nvidia drivers are packaged, install Steam and setup Proton - I have no experience dual booting though). I’ve installed that for my wife and elderly mother and hardly any problems so far.
Recent annecdote: wife corrupted some Nvidia package because she got impatient during shutdown and just switched off. I had to fix that in the terminal because the X server crashed. That was one time though. Otherwise the proprietary Nvidia drivers work fine (despite the ideological issues around it that I sympathize with).
Even though I switched to Linux a couple of years back for all my private machines that’s exactly why I never recommend it even to my tech-savvy friends. You have to be comfortable having to tinker every now and then. However, that’s honestly true for Windows, too. You just have to keep in mind that for non-rolling releases a distribution upgrade is like a Windows version change (and the move from Win 7 to 10 was far from smooth for many).
So, that considered, I think one of the best Linux distributions to get started with minimal tinkering and terminal usage is Mint (Nvidia drivers are packaged, install Steam and setup Proton - I have no experience dual booting though). I’ve installed that for my wife and elderly mother and hardly any problems so far.
Recent annecdote: wife corrupted some Nvidia package because she got impatient during shutdown and just switched off. I had to fix that in the terminal because the X server crashed. That was one time though. Otherwise the proprietary Nvidia drivers work fine (despite the ideological issues around it that I sympathize with).