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I'm in a similar boat as you and my current plan is to switch to PopOS. They are Ubuntu/Debian based so you will be familiar with it, and they also are a distro that is more focused on gaming, so you will have an easier time with video card drivers.
The only issue that I have with pop OS is that it seems unnecessarily slow at times.
I'm running a Lenovo legion 5 with a 10750x, 32 gigs of ram, and a 2060 in it and sometimes it would feel a full second between when I click the button and when something happens.
Fedora was a little bit better about that, but I don't use that because of the weird politics surrounding Fedora right now.
Now I'm on a mint cinnamon and it's actually pretty good, although I have yet to try playing any games from steam on it.
The other issues I have is that Fedora would keep my Bluetooth speakers connected between reboots but both pop OS and Linux cinnamon require that I manually reconnect every time.
I was in a similar boat to you, but then I installed pop and just gave it a go. Stuck it on a separate hd for now but with everything setup and working I'm very happy with it.