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Not in a way you're probably going to like.
You could set up a bare metal hypervisor on the system and set up a VM for your NAS, Windows, and Linux and swap between them as needed, but uh, that's not really an exceedingly pleasant desktop use case, for a number of reasons, one of which is that you really won't have the normal 'sit down, and use the computer' desktop experience.
Alternate option: run the NAS and either the Linux or Windows install in a VM, and keep it booted into, say, the desktop Linux environment with everything else being a virtualized setup.
I'm basically running this setup with Unraid as my hypervisor. It's definitely doable, but takes a lot of tinkering to get everything up and running and games with super strict anti cheat won't run at all. I would only recommend going this route if you really enjoy tinkering, I'd say finding a cheap second hand PC for your NAS is probably much less work.
Unless you want to game. Anti-cheats are notorlessly anti-virtual machines.
Fair, but he said he wants to move from Windows to Linux, so I just assumed there wasn't going to be any of those since, well, they're not going to run in Linux anyways.
I use Linux full time and I tried using my desktop as my NAS, and even then it was annoying.
Just get a second device to use as a NAS if you actually need one, or if it's just you, share files on a separate drive/partition between Windows and Linux. It's not worth getting fancy with one device.