16gb ram. nvida GTX1650. Triple monitors
want to run existing windows 10 installation in VM, with write access. This is mostly for tax software.
plan is new SSD drive. Make 2 partitions for windows, with backup to both. Let it be C: drive? Then reformat PCIe M2 drive for linux.
I only care about the VM not FUBARing the windows installation, even if I have a 2nd backup of it.
I play one game that has a linux version: beyond all reason.
I’ve used debian/ubuntu based linux before. I don’t need/want to highly customize performance/features. Just working out of box.
Any distro will work once you install Nvidia drivers.
For Fedora and Ubuntu you can do it from the software center application.
If you go with Fedora you want to also look up how to install proprietary media codecs. That’s the one other thing you need to do after installation. Ubuntu has them built-in.