I'm sorry if this is long, I ramble or I'm stubborn on my thought process on how I want things to work.

I've been wanting to move to Linux for sometime, its not because Windows is bad in my opinion and while I hear stories of bad updates, files gone missing, driver issues etc... for me its been plain sailing and no issues and I would consider myself a power user. Most days I'm on here reading, checking out GOL, discord channels and some Linux youtubers as well and my games on ProtonDB. I guess you could say I have an interest in it, and I have switched briefly in the past and it was ok (laptop) I did have some frustrations but it was ok, most of these are now solved in Kernel updates.

So with having an interest, the enjoyment of tinkering, and learning something different, maybe some sysadmin knowledge of Linux, maybe its time to make the change. I'm mainly a gamer (Apex, Insurgency Sandstorm, Satisfactory, CSGO, TF2, Killing Floor 2 ) and these all seem to work, with little or no effort.

I do not want to dual boot, I'm a sort of both feet in kind of guy, but I have some concerns:

1. Lack of functionality, Windows you are blessed with amazing looking GUI's for AMD for example, or VPN clients. Where as Linux seems more barebones or lackluster in features, or am I missing the point and everything is done in a config, Wireshark or Terminal.
2. Logitech - I have the MX line and use the unifying receiver to pair them - there seems to be some third-party software how reliable is this?
3. My monitor is 1440p 144hz will this be an issue and can I use Freesync in my games... further more does this limit me to a DE or WM?
4. I'm somewhat stuck on Distro (Pop OS / Kubuntu I'm familiar with Debian based stuff, Fedora for the more frequent updates or EndeavourOS which I expect to do more googling to get my way through things.
5. Lastly I have a lot of documents, music, media over 8TB, the drives are NTFS and they are backed up however I was going to use EXT4... I'm seriously worries about data lose or corruption.

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Thank you for reading and sorry to be that guy who can't decide, even if you can't answer these but made the jump especially those who had a good experience with Windows.