I want to replace Win10 on the desktop system I mostly use for gaming. It is an older system with an Nvidia GeForce 1050ti gpu in it, which from what I found, should not be a problem. I was thinking about going with Ubuntu since it is well supported. I was interested if anyone has any opinions about this. I am also going to try and dual boot it with the Win10 for now. I purchased a new SSD drive just for Linux.
I would suggest Linux Mint over Ubuntu. It’s beginner friendly, very stable and overall a very good choice for any purpose. It’s based on Ubuntu so most of the stuff you find online applies to it as well. The APT package repository contains most if not all the software you might need.
Down the line almost every distro will be suitable for gaming.