For a Linux newcommer, I would recommend an extremely mainstream distro like Mint over some niche gaming one like Zorin, due to having way bigger user bases and online support material in case things go wrong. Everything you can do in one distro can be done in others. If you're playing steam games, basically everything not native works out of the box with their Proton compatibility tool.

I also second Crit's recommendation for Lutris, specially if you're pirating. You can basically use cracked Windows repacks with that. I haven't used Windows in over 10 years now, and over the past 3 or so I've basically not run into any compatibility problems for games.

But you may want to keep a small windows partition if you like playing League of Legends or other aggressively DRM-locked games.