Nvidia will probably be even better supported in the future and opensource drivers are getting close to proprietary feature sets.

Wayland support has also been improving in major ways so we can have fractional scaling, HDR and all those nice things soonish.

Then in general there will be an even bigger push for games to support Linux via DXVK, Wine etc to support Steam Deck.

I would recommend trying out dual boot setup for a while and then deleting Windows when you're ready.

I know some Linux users trash talk Nvidia on Linux like it just a piece of shit. But it's simply okay. Don't get me wrong it's not great. But it works.

But if you have a simple setup it will probably work. My SO PC has a rtx 2060 and one monitor and it works fine.

You can of course always dual boot. I still have windows for VR gaming and just in case. I do recommend a stable os with Nvidia (especially if you just starting out with Linux). Something like pop os. Don't go with arch just for the meme.

With dual booting you can try Linux and test if it's okay for you. If not just give the disk space back to windows. If not great keep using Linux.

Nvidia drivers are mostly bad for Wayland afaik. Games shouldn't be particularly problematic.

I'm also running NVIDIA (RTX 4070), and while I did have to try drivers from a few different sources, I eventually got it working pretty quickly.

But my mistake was choosing an OS that doesn't bundle non-free drivers (Fedora), from what I've heard some distros like Ubuntu come with NVIDIA support by default, so I guess that's also an option.