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Manjaro was buggy in my experience (used it for a year), and seems to be a well hated distro at this point. I am not suggesting that will fix your issues, just mentioning. I had a friend switch from Windows to Linux for the first time and Bazzite was the one that worked the best for their Nvidia card. As the other commenter said, dual booting on the same drive with Windows makes it a headache to manage.
I tried Bazzite, too, but there were issues there. Admittedly, they've updated their Nvidia support since, so I could give it another go.
But also, I'm not using this PC just as a gaming station, it's a workstation, too. I'm not sure a gaming-focused immutable distro is going to be it.
The irony of it is that Manjaro has been best at this. I can run my workflow on it fine, and it's snappier than Windows at that (and for other stuff, like retro gaming). It's gaming-on-Linux savior Steam that gave up the ghost.
And frankly, I find when something like this happens everybody jumps to distro hopping as a solution. In my experience, if you're trying to do something with sketchy support like this all distros are quirky.