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3D artist here! (And have been paid for it, so grain of salt that I'm not some legend from a AAAA studio but I'm not a poser either)

Blender is practically made for Linux. It's fantastic. Using Blender Launcher has been a game changer too!

I've seen some threads about Affinity working. With strides with Proton and such, it might be getting there. :)

As the other user posted, DaVinci is also Linux friendly.

I'm not techy enough to do Linux either.

Well, you're already on Lemmy, and if you're using those programs you listed, you're more than techy enough. A lot depends on the distro, but there's plenty of friendly ones!

Currently I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and love it. But Fedora, or maybe Pop!_OS or Mint might also appeal to you, depending on if you need/want the latest updates or a bit more solidly tested apps. (I like my new shiny features hehe)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is technically a "rolling release" but they do very good package testing, so my experience with NVIDIA on it has gotten WAY better, after some hitches in the past, where I simply rolled back and waited for a better update while I used the current system. Every time that's been Nvidia's fault. The system is crazy stable.

If that scares you though, but you like chameleons, there's OpenSUSE Leap, which hangs back a little for more stability. :)

...Installing Linux can be a little tough for beginners though! But there's lots of good guides, and YouTube stuff and friendly community folks to help you there. Weekend project! Once you've done it once, you'll have it. :)

My big lifehack for you is this (because I spent way too long geek-diving over this): Install with BTRFS as your file system, and install a program called Timeshift to handle "snapshots" you can roll back to if an update breaks or something. (Like Windows system restore) With BTRFS, snapshots can be made that only store differences, rather than exponentially taking up space with multiple literal copies of your whole system.

An awesome perk of OpenSUSE is that it does this automatically, and you have the option of using an earlier saved snapshot at boot time. :)

All these options have "app stores" but trust me, the command line isn't as scary as it sounds to just search for software and update stuff! :)

Highly suggest playing with it on a VM or a spare hard drive and trying to do some tasks in it little by little. I like my Linux Blender experience MUCH better, personally.

The KDE desktop environment also feels super familiar and intuitive to Windows users, and has GUI options for tons of customization.

And goes without saying regardless of anything else: back up anything important to you. :p

Linux is really fun to play around with because it feels like it's your machine, like getting to paint your bedroom walls and put holes in it and hang up shelves as opposed to renting a gray box you're not allowed to mess with. I think you'd dig it. :)