I play video games, watch movies/TV, browse the internet, write stuff, might do some technical drawing stuff. Do not like fiddling but can do a little.
I play video games, watch movies/TV, browse the internet, write stuff, might do some technical drawing stuff. Do not like fiddling but can do a little.
Mint is pretty good. Games are kinda annoying tbh even some of the games I bought on Steam didn't run after install with Proton enabled, there are ways to fix this stuff but you'll have to spend time.
Browsing, movies writing all that will be perfectly fine (Though I found window scaling a bit odd). As for drawing Photoshop is a pain to install, you'll have to go with GIMP or Krita.
You can also dual boot with Windows if you want for software/games which don't work well on Linux but then you'll have to worry about file system shit (if you dont have two drives) and reboot everytime.
I suggest trying it out in Live Mode from a USB Stick or a VM.
Especially in the case of having only a single drive: instead of dual booting, I would advise setting up a windows VM through qemu. It might be a bit time-consuming at first, but you don't have to reboot and there's no need to bother with partitioning your drive correctly. The performance is almost on par with dual booting if you set it up with GPU passthrough and CPU pinning, which is mostly just a matter of finding a decent guide and following it. The only disadvantage is that some games that use invasive kernel-level anticheats may detect that they are running inside a VM and refuse to work.