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The very first question you need to answer is “am I going to want to play any of the games that literally do not work on Linux?”. That alone would be a dealbreaker for most, as the most popular games in the world don’t work on Linux (COD MP, Warzone, Fortnite, GTA online, PUBG, etc).
Mint would still be my initial choice, unless you're really intending to dive right into playing the latest AAA games in which case Bazzite might be a better starting point.
But it's really easy to install both. You might even prefer to have both. You can install Mint on a disk partition with only 50-100GB or less. Most Linux installations will work fine with about the same. It's only once you start installing games that it's going to consume tons of disk space.