I really need to stop doing stupid shit with my PC

So I've been using Linux as my main system for a while. Works good, I can do work, I can play games, I can watch videos, all that fun stuff.

One this remains annoyingly difficult, however: VR

VR is one of the things keeping me tethered to Windows. Most of the games I play, Pistol Whip, Rez Infinite, Beat Saber, they all work, albiet with some minimal issues. One game, however, ChilloutVR, just does not work for me.

I run a somewhat decent PC. AMD FX 6300 CPU, 32 gigs of DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GTX 1650, not mindblowing, but not pathetic either. It runs this game just fine under Windows.

On Linux, while it's mostly playable, there is a significant performance sacrifice. Downloading anything bogs the framerate down substantially, there is a stuttering that plagues everything, and god forbid you get into a world that has anyone else in it.

I've done some reading, and apparently, based on one source that I honestly can't even remember because it was some random support blog, Wayland might work a bit better than X11. I suspected this before, and I tried to use Wayland without success, but I felt like trying again anyway. Who knows, maybe I did something wrong the first time?

That idea has made my last two nights a living hell.

I'm not a Linux expert. At all. I don't know how to modify things, I tried looking at how to get Linux Mint to run Wayland and it's either incredibly difficult or just straight impossible.

The answer was clear: I needed a new OS, and my first thought was Manjaro. I was familiar with it, it being one of my first distros. Well, I initially tried to install the community Mate edition, because I like the Mate desktop environment. Issues immediately popped up.

Manjaro by default ships with two install options: With the open source graphics drivers, or proprietary drivers. The open source drivers on Nvidia kinda suck ass for gaming, and the newest proprietary drivers straight up do not work with my setup, forcing an unsupported signal into my monitor.

Whatever. I can just install with the open source drivers and upgrade to the proprietary drivers I can actually use later, right?

no. Not at all.

The manjaro devs, for some fucking reason, changed the way you install the drivers, leaving me to go way out of my scope of expertise in order to install the drivers. Not doing that at 3-4 in the morning.

Whatever, that was just the community version. Maybe the official version will work better? I chose Gnome, because at this point I found out it was the only version that had Wayland by default. Whatever.

Well, guess what? The issues I described in Mate edition also applies to this one. Can't boot at all with the proprietary drivers, though I can install the proprietary drivers, but it's the ones that don't fuckin work for me. I installed them anyway, and guess what happened? My system didn't boot to it properly.

So now I'm here on Windows installing vanilla Ubuntu. None of this was worth it in my eyes. I gained no new knowledge, no new skills. All I got was an extra gray hair and several hours shaved off my total life span.

I seriously need to actually learn some shit, this is getting ridiculous.

Edit: OK, Ubuntu doesn't work at all. Can't set up a dual boot because by default it just wants to wreck my windows drive, and I have no clue how to set it up manually  nor do I have the patience to put up with Ubuntus bullshit at this point of time.

No, ubuntu is not user friendly, it's a god damn nightmare in every aspect, I have no idea why I keep coming back to it. It has literally never worked right for me.