u/Gibbs5500

I am looking to rebuild my other pc which is used for living room gaming /media / retro gaming but looking to ditch windows on it and go full on linux and also to squeeze a little more performance out of it as well. Specs are below any help and suggestions are very much appreciated also new to linux seen so something relatively easy to learn or pickup would be ideal as well. Thanks

Cpu: I7 4770K

Motherboard: Asus Z87 Pro ATX board

RAM: 32gb Corsair Vengeance

Graphics Card: ASUS Strix 1080ti

SSD: 500GB

Couple of Hybrid drives for storage as well