It doesn't really matter much, just turn on proton (valve's special windows compatibility software for games) in steam after you've installed it.
You will have to install most of your software through whichever package manager (linuxism for app store) is available in your distro (instead of googling the name of the software, downloading an exe, etc), and you will want to install a program called bottles (the most straightforward IMO) or lutris (more fiddly but more geared toward gamers) which iare frontends for a program called wine, which is the windows compatibility program from which proton was forked. Most games that are not dependent on anti-cheat software will run just fine in either proton or wine.
You can also add non-steam softwares to steam and it will try to run them through proton, and they will show up in your steam library with everything else.
You can't go wrong with either a Fedora spin (besides i3 which is pretty advanced) , or Linux Mint if you're looking for something familiar to a windows user. Really pretty much any distro is fine or at least workable.
It doesn't really matter much, just turn on proton (valve's special windows compatibility software for games) in steam after you've installed it.
You will have to install most of your software through whichever package manager (linuxism for app store) is available in your distro (instead of googling the name of the software, downloading an exe, etc), and you will want to install a program called bottles (the most straightforward IMO) or lutris (more fiddly but more geared toward gamers) which iare frontends for a program called wine, which is the windows compatibility program from which proton was forked. Most games that are not dependent on anti-cheat software will run just fine in either proton or wine.
You can also add non-steam softwares to steam and it will try to run them through proton, and they will show up in your steam library with everything else.
You can't go wrong with either a Fedora spin (besides i3 which is pretty advanced) , or Linux Mint if you're looking for something familiar to a windows user. Really pretty much any distro is fine or at least workable.