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Most of the things on your list will work under any distro (e.g. Word alternatives such as LibreOffice Write and other office suites like WPS Office should be easy enough to install - many distros even preinstall LibreOffice; Steam is pretty easy to setup and install but individual games are usually a case by case basis - I recommend looking into any must-haves before switching and looking into new games before purchasing). The biggest issue is likely to be Adobe Photoshop. If you have of the following, you might be able to follow the setup described in WinApps for Linux (basically a VM with RDP) to
Given you consider running Windows under a VM, download and run this simple script https://github.com/pavolelsig/IOMMU-viewer. It will tell you the GPU IOMMU group, whether the GPU can or can't be passthrough to the VM for its exclusive utilization. If the GPU has its own IOMMU group it means it can be passed through to the VM, thus you can get Windows VM running games and other apps that require/benefit from hardware acceleration just as you would run it bare-metal. These scripts can configure qemu\libvirt for you. https://github.com/pavolelsig To P2V Windows host, use Starwinds converter under Windows to get a qcow2 VM disk. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter. If you would install Linux first, on a separate drive, you can use qemu-img for the task. https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/convert-images.html
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