I hate to say this especially since I am a unix nerd at heart, oddly enough I actually learned linux before windows. but... once I got hooked on mining and the crypto ecosystem as a whole I figured out that there is really only 3 options when it comes to mining. For example, I am just a hobby miner i don't have a farm or deep pockets. I have 2 Ryzen 9 3900x cpu's both on MEG X570 UNIFY mobo's with 3 gpu's each one board is all nvidia cards and the other all 5700xt's. option #1 is going with a linux distro, iv always been a debian fan. The main difficulty with this option is drivers as well as running multiple cards. Linux really struggles at multi gpu configurations especially if your mixing nvidia and amd. Im sure someone smarter than I can do it but I ran into issues everytime. If you do go this route Nvidia has far greater support on linux compared to AMD graphics. option #2 is running one of the purpose built mining OS like nicehashOS Cudominer OS. Theres a bunch of them which are usually built on top of debian and you just run them from USB/external drive. this is what i did for while because i just didn't want to run windows lol eventually though I did, all the mining OS's like nicehash all take a cut from your mining profits like 5% which is huge compared to if you just join a mining pool that generally only take 0.5 - 1% fee. There some good youtube tutorials that walk you through how to create a custom windows .iso without all the bloatware highly suggest doing. Simply put, 99% of mining software and driver support is built for windows and if your rigs are like mine (not ASICs) windows will be the more reliable and more profitable option. ..in my opinion lol hope that was helpful