If you game and use ollama and want to try Linux I think you should check out Bluefin-DX as it is specially tooled for Nvidia AI nim and nemo container environment. Nvidia drivers are ready to go.

As for your CPU choice, if you can at some point get over to at minimum 12thgen Intel (11thgen I you're willing to jump onto ali express ewaste) I think you would see a marked performance improvement overall.

Note how the 3060 already had 12GB VRAM, and they still try to push 8 today

Nvidia is a bit of a risk under Linux. It might work.

You've already got plenty of comments explaining why you should switch. You obviously should ideally. Check Protondb.com to see if your games runs on Linux.

yes

CachyOS might get you some modest performance gains on that hardware

I have a similar usecase w/ games and ollama, good support for that on linux

Your choices:

• buy a new PC with Windows 11
• move to linux with your current PC
• stay with Windows 10 on your current PC, and take the risk of using an insecure system.