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Zorin is based on Ubuntu LTS so it will be very stable and has tons of apps available. Steam should work just fine but I don't think they've done any additional work to specially optimise it for gaming.
Linux Mint would be a very option because they tend to update the system more often than Zorin, although also Ubuntu LTS based, and I think Cinnamon looks better than Zorins desktop personally.
If you have Nvidia graphics then maybe look at Pop_OS because while they are also Ubuntu based, they've done some extra work with Nvidia drivers and getting them to play nice with Linux.
Unfortunately Nvidia doing supply open source drivers so everything has to be reversed engineered. That's why Linux users tend to use AMD.
I seems like the general concensus is Mint makes more sense for what I need. I'll need to do a little more looking and test it out.
I honestly hadn't heard of pop_od before so I may need to look into that as well. Most of my hardware I wouldn't mind replacing but I have a 3080, and dropping cash on a new graphics card seems suboptimal lol.