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Late to the party, but here is what I might add :
As others have mentioned, most distros will do, so just pick one that you think would suit you, or that you might like, or feel comfortable trying.
Regardless of what distro you go for though, you might wanna make sure you have h264 support and some extra codec packages to make sure you have compatibility with more audio/video formats, some don't have all of them preinstalled for different reasons and it might hurt your experience with editing.
Not a necessity, and may be not ideal since it can be difficult to use for some beginners, but a rolling release distro could also improve your editing experience simply because your system will be more up to date..except that's not a certainty and the difference might be too marginal to really notice..and using flatpak packages could be a simpler way to get more up to date stuff.
Regarding dual booting.. yeah it's not the best experience, but it's not that bad either. What it mostly means is you're gonna have to deal with a bunch of minor inconveniences (disk space management, disks opening in read only, windows update messing things up, one of the OS showing the wrong time,etc) , but adding all of them up could tire you at some point. And it can be worse if you are not sure the distro you installed suits you. If using a virtual machine is not great for you, you could try installing Linux on an external disk (although I haven't tried it myself so I don't know if it's easy to do), that way you could enjoy having both OS without having the worst issues you can sometimes have when dual booting. (myself I do the opposite, windows on external disk, but it's because I barely use windows)
Finally the program you use might matters still since some are more janky than others. If you want a simple editor Shotcut is a good option (like others pointed out), I'd argue Kdenlive is better but it's less intuitive, might require some fidling to work well on some hardware and overall it's more advanced (can be a good or a bad thing depending on what you do).
No clue if it was usefull and didn't expect it to be that long of a text, but here it is.
ty mate!