I would suggest installing Ventoy just in case you decide to distro hop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAnA7X8fAGs

You can then download whatever linux iso you want into your USB and be able to install it.

I personally did actually switch to linux completely. I've come to the mindset of just not buying games that don't run on Linux (which are few and far between at this point: https://www.protondb.com/

Garuda Linux was very helpful for shoving in my face the names of software for Linux gaming that I was unfamiliar with, but definately save your files on a different hard drive from your install if you decide to go this route: https://garudalinux.org/

(My favorite desktop environment is still cinnamon)

But if you're familiar with the names of software you can actually use any distro and then just install the software you need.

I completely switched when I heard the end of life news for windows 10, but I had been using Linux for many years before that on laptops (I only had windows for gaming at that point) and windows was not worth holding on to for that long. After a while I found plenty of software on Linux as my go to solution for things I wanted to work on that just work way better on Linux and work kinda bad on the Windows version.

tldr: its worth the switch bro