If you're just getting started I think it's totally fine to test the waters with a dual boot. A lot of games work great on Linux now even unsupported games like League of Legends and Blizzard games via Lutris or Bottles.

Another option I didn't see anyone recommend is doing a QEMU KVM GPU passthrough. So you would boot up the VM for gaming in windows and pass your gpu through. It's a bit of work to get running stable / performant but then you don't have to restart your machine every time you want to game or run Windows only software. The downside is games like Valorant and Genshin Impact won't work in a VM.