The year of the Linux desktop?

Given my "daily driver" machine was running Windows 8.1 for whatever reason and that's getting unsupported pretty soon, I figured I might as well give more dedication to Linux a shot. Like previous times I've gone with Linux Mint again for familiarity and the sake of being able to potentially more easily do some things that aren't exactly free open source stuff just in case. So far, I've managed to get things relatively installed once I figured out the graphics driver thing as far as I can tell, mainly what the "secure boot" thing was exactly and what that wanted me to do. And I managed to keep the old Windows install in case I need to do things over there too. There's just a lot of remembering what programs I usually use and getting those set up, fortunately at this point most seem to have a working Linux version or were Linux native or the like to begin with.

At this point I really only have a Windows 10 machine for the sake of pretty specific gaming requirements, and I had to mess with the configuration of that a bit so it wouldn't try to automatically update in the middle of things like I've heard about it doing. No idea how Windows 11 handles it, but I'd like to at least wait until that OS is relatively done before I try messing with that if it's doable. I've heard it's been hit or miss with gaming performance, like every other update breaks something there. I'm often the type to stick with older and known working versions of OS stuff for longer for the sake of having things function.