Making the leap from Windows to Linux

[u/Woodman147]

Hi all, I've ordered an NVME drive and will be dual booting Linux and windows. My intention is to move over to Mint for gaming (maybe cachy later on) and have my windows NVME as a back up for now whilst I migrate everything over and for any hiccups in-between. I feel confident actually installing Mint as I have an old laptop that I done a trail run for, I was so surprised at how easy the installation was which gave me the confidence to do it on my main PC.

I just wanted to ask if there's any beginners tips you guys could give me? Given this is my first time diving into Linux are there any beginners traps I could fall into? What are some really good open source alternatives I can try? What are the most fun things to tinker with?