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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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Nothing wrong with it. Here's a website to help you choose the distro: https://distrochooser.de/
Personally, for gaming, I'd recomment Mint or Ubuntu. Probably your hardware will be supported. There's also Pop!OS, which seems to be completely gaming related as well as SteamOS, but I've never used them.
You can run a hardware probe from the live USB to see how well the distro handles your hardware too
https://linux-hardware.org/
It just recommended elementary OS to me and that's the next one I was going to try, lol.
I've got Nobara installed and it has shit the bed for whatever reason. Was way too unstable for me as well. Also, support is lacking there. A lot of hostile attitudes in response to any questions I had.