I see bazzite mentioned a lot here, but wasn't there a post here a while ago saying that it might stop existing if fedora pushes through with the decision to ditch 32bit support? Did they decide not to do it after all?
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I think they decided not to, with some (IMO fairly) snarky comment on how that was just a proposal and people were getting needlesely outraged.
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Of course you should - Do a dual boot as a test on whatever rig you're currently using. Easy to undo and it costs you exactly zero.
The amount of these posts make me happy.
I'm a simple man who use Mint on my gaming PC. No issues. Everything worked out of the box.
Oh you have Nvidia ? Try out PopOS, they have a special ISO file with Nvidia drivers
It actually doesn't really matter.
Nobara is good, it's fedora but with better nvidia driver stuff out of the box.
I use Nobara on my laptop which has rtx 3060 6gb with ryzen 7 5800h. Sure Nvidia sucks on every linux distro, but you will get many quality of life improvements when using linux instead of windows.
Btw, Nobara is just Fedora with some good gaming related chages.
I have a very similar build as yours, just with a RTX 3090 instead. I switched to Pop!_OS about a year and a half ago, and it's been running like a charm ever since.
Manjaro KDE would be easier for a beginner. Manjaro XFCE if you want to play RTX games and ok with tinkering WM.
It's more personal preference and use case than anything.
Gaming dedicated versions are nice if you really only plan to game. Bazzite, ChimeraOS, Garuda, along others are available. ChimeraOS is what I installed on my stepson's pc and outside of a network issue it has worked pretty well. He is happy and since he mainly uses his android tablet for web browsing and whatnot, it's perfect for me to not need to do a bunch of troubleshooting issues. I've tinkered with Garuda but I'm not convinced it's for me and I dislike anything with a Mac feel.
I use an Ubuntu based system (Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS) with a 5800X and GTX1080TI because I want stability and the ability to edit video, game, manage websites, manage our home services, along other things.
Instead of asking which one you should use go out and try some demos and look at your intended use case.
Yes, if you want. If you don't, no.