Title says it all, I'd rather not do Win10 mining if I can get around it. For the primary reasons of Win10 isnt slimmed down, has a lot of overhead and the remote management seems like it would be a nightmare.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a proper Linux OS for mining Nvidia cards?
While I can respect your opinion as to why you don't want to use Win 10, what does overhead in the OS have to do with mining performance? I can tell you from experience that it has no effect. Many of your better tools are on Windows, and remote management is a simple checkbox in the System control panel... takes 30 seconds to enable RDP.
I prefer to use SSH and VNC over RDP myself, a lot of it is personal preference rather than which is 'best'