Try it! You can always go back.

If you can find another HDD or SSD then you can keep your windows drive full of games intact.

I dual booted for years (for gaming) and as of now haven't used a non-linux PC for more than a decade at home or professionally.

I recommend starting with either Fedora or Ubuntu as they're among the most popular and have a large community for support.

Set yourself a goal on Linux, even if it's just "check my email" or whatever. Rinse, repeat.

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.

Yes

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.

Switch when Microsoft ads, bloat, telemetry and reboots starts to test your sanity. Didn't switch if everything seems fine.

If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.

If you want to know my honest opinion then instead of focusing on the operating system you should focus on the hardware. An old inefficient low-clocked six core server CPU is no match for a RTX 3060.

If you feel like trying something new, why not try it? Worst case scenario you’re just changing to a different OS anyway. Best case scenario you find something new to learn and tinker with.

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