I used a Miele hoover as a shop vac, hoovering wall plaster, muck and sawdust etc and pretty much abused it - replaced all filters and gave it a good clean and it still works like new. That was 5 years ago and it's still going fine.
veng
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I've been running a 3070 for a few years on Pop OS, zero issues.
Most people don't even know what Linux is... and a huge amount don't even know what version of windows they use
Given the cost of GPUs nowadays I don't blame them. It used to be reasonable...
Pop!_OS is a good option too imo. I game a lot on it with no issues, even something like cyberpunk 2077.
I think it depends on your setup - if you've got a good 4k HDR TV then by all means you could just watch then delete and it would be worth it. But yeah good point, may as well do 1080 otherwise, if you want a collection. I've only got 90 movies at 1080p and struggle to justify keeping more than that.
Tried it in Bali and it wasn't that expensive at all for a cup. It tasted weird though, could tell it had the taste of something that had been digested. 4/10 if I'm being generous, the teas there were great though.
I find the best way if you're on a budget is to have a small collection of 4k movies, with an even smaller rotation of new 4k movies - then have everything else at 1080p x265. Still want at least 8TB ideally, so down the NAS rabbit hole we go..
I use it because I'm more comfortable with working with it under the hood than Windows (day job experience). It's also less of a PITA when it comes to bloat, updates (not just OS, general software too) and telemetry.
I did use Windows on my desktop until about a year ago to be fair, as I didn't feel gaming was quite good enough - but after trying again it's brilliant now. No reason to ever go back.
I mean to be fair, it's likely you'd spend most of your time reverse engineering creative's drivers with something like ghidra, which doesn't need Linux 😄
Anyone who's feeling Linux savvy, try getting EAX working with some X-Fi hardware. Best of luck ;)
If you want to do any game streaming though (e.g. on Sunshine/moonlight), Nvidia is still miles ahead.