i do not blame you for wanting to switch, but being hesitant to do so
recently i made the switch myself but kept my old windows install on another drive for development
right now the only solution seems to be dual booting, if you can afford another drive (vms might work but i havent managed to get one to work just yet, if i do ill come back and edit this)
word of warning to those jumping ship with a nvidia card
please please please save yourself the headache, do not download official nvidia drivers. they are horrible and perform worse than the generic drivers each distro comes bundled with usually