

The 7500F is also an option if you want to shave off a bit of the price, depending on local availability for OP (or from AliExpress if you feel adventurous ;) ) It can be found as low as under 150 USD/EUR. Its basically a 7600 without the integrated graphics.
Welcome to the club :D I did the same thing last summer and also switched to Mint and never looked back. So basically Im a fellow newbie. It was the best decision as everything just works minus the windows shenanigans.
Even gaming is almost perfect (apart from the occasional tinkering here and there) its more than great. All my games work great, some better than under win.
Im even in the middle of building my new gaming PC exclusively for Linux in mind.
As I have to use win 11 for work (work laptop) I can see switching was the right decision as every update makes it more annoying and bloated.