You can use Ubuntu as it works well for what you are trying to do.It is not mining specific but it can easily be made to mine like I am doing at home with my 2 x GTX 1050 ti,and for the card that runs at 82 degree Celsius it is a small fan factor which is running inside my Z workstation that is why it stays 82 degree all the time.






You just download the specific miner,in my case is T-rex because I am using Nvidia cards only at my home workstation.You edit the script files with your wallet and then run them with the command below for example to mine ETC:

./ETC-2miners.sh

The latest version of Ubuntu automatically detect your cards most of the time so I think you should have no problems with it.