OP, note that Nvidia isn’t as bad on Linux as it used to be.

Adding to your comment, perhaps having 2 separate bootloaders reduces the chances of such breakages.

Could you share laptop specs? Judging by your post any distro should work fine. Can’t go wrong choosing a popular distro like Fedora or Mint.

I have this printer and it works flawlessly using the proprietary drivers.

Totally wrong. Even then, disko makes things easy.

What’s with Fedora making these changes recently