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You wont know for sure until you try. the main sticking point for gaming on linux is anti-cheat, so if you play a lot of games with that then you may run into some trouble. otherwise ProtonDB is your friend. Most games these days are pretty easy to get up and running.
A lot of AI tools are developed on linux anyway so you shouldn't encounter too many problems there.
Browsers are no problem at all. I recommend Firefox
libreoffice is also a good browser and you can brag that you have a light blue browser icon that no one else has
I think Jumuta is referring to LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox with some hardening pre-applied. I use it on machines on which I don't want to spend time configuring my browser.
oh yeah, my brain just apparently died there
...well except for chromium which has a blue icon which some may consider light blue
This really needs to be emphasised, #1 reason for proton to not work is this. Depending on the games OP wants to run, there will be issues.