I feel like upscaling from 144p would be terrible. 360p might be more doable i think
As someone that is very new to FOSS, especially on mobile, it sounds like F-Droid is a Play Store replacement. Where can I download that safely?
Linux Mint felt like a really good start for me. Its a nice transition from Windows because you still get a lot of functions that can be done outside of the command line. There's a GUI for system updates, driver updates, and an app store of sorts. The interface is also just generally not all that different from Windows.
In my experience, I didnt have any issues running games on Mint. I was using a pretty powerful rig with AMD hardware, which tends to play nicer with Linux, but from what I've heard Mint seems to do well with gaming.
To play games, you'll obviously need Steam with Proton enabled. I picked the latest full release version and it generally worked pretty good with most games. Some games that wont work with Steam might need a separate app called Lutris. For me this was just Battlefield 4, which also worked fine through Lutris. You can check ProtonDB to see if the games you wanna play will work.
If you use Nvidia, I've heard good things about Pop!OS but i havent used it myself.
Good luck finding a distro that works for you!
I finally get to really dig into D4 and am waiting patiently for Starfield before buying pretty much anything else
Honestly I don't think Nintendo is even a part of the console wars anymore. Almost all the games on the Switch that are actually good and worthwhile are Nintendo exclusive, and the people that want to play them will always buy the console to play it. Most gamers will have a console/PC for their more intensive games in addition to a Nintendo system for all that they can offer on their own
I pretty much only posted on Reddit to ask questions I couldn't easily find answers to and also never got the toxicity that other people experienced. I think I'm mostly just moving because a lot of the subs I followed on Reddit are shut down for good anyway and it seems like a good time to jump ship for an open source option.