If you want something that works out of the box for gaming like steam os, I’d recommend the latest version of Nobara (fedora with qol mods for gaming) with KDE (desktop SteamOS, as I use the Steam-HTPC for my home theater/livingroom PC. For desktop use download the “Nobara Official – Nobara’s Custom themed version of KDE" iso.
Otherwise mint, suggested by others, or Fedora works.
Amd gpus have the least amount of headaches as the drivers are open source and better integrated with the graphics modules.
I’m told that arc is also good
Nvidia GPUs older than 20 series might need extra setup out of the box. I had to do some extra tweaks to get my 970m working
The modern GPU drivers are better than before nvidia opened up their drivers.
If you need help feel free to post here, otherwise start a thread.
For more receptive replies, try to show what debugging or research you’re done to attempt to solve the problem. If you search the error printed in the terminal online, there’s a good chance that someone else or chatgpt has solved it.
If you want to read the experienceof others, this is a great thread. If you start a new post documenting your experience, you can get a 1 year Linux challenge badge
Once you get comfortable with the command line/terminal, I’d recommend NixOS as you can configure the system once and run it everywhere. I wrote my experience here