I dual booted fedora kde 2 months ago with an AMD GPU and it has worked just as well as windows 11. There were some initial setup options I had to enable for proprietary drivers, but aside from that it has been solid. A few glitches here and there, but about the same as windows 11. I also went into this committing to not use the terminal, and so far I have been successful.

I look for high endurance drives which are intended for use with pi’s, dash cams, etc. they tend to come in smaller sizes due to the endurance requirements.

Except that most commercial firewalls offer quic protocol blocking for just this reason. I guess it is useful in some cases.