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Try PikaOS.
It's Debian for gaming. They use the CachyOS kernel (rebranded), BTRFS, the Debian Sid base, and they do the package optimization thing that Cachy does. They also use a lot of the same UI tooling from Nobara, like the welcome screen and icons, and the update GUI is based on but an improvement over the one from Nobara. There's also the same Kernel Manager and Scheduler selector as what you'd find in Cachy.
Like Arch, it's a rolling update distro, and they have some kind of automated process that builds/optimizes new packages every day.
It's admirable what they're trying to do, and I'm currently considering making a bare-metal switch.
PikaOS looks cool, never heard of it, but it had me a Debian optimized hardware and software support:). What's the hyprland version?
Not sure, but it's supposed to be near-bleeding edge for everything. I couldn't get the Hyprland version to boot in a VM, so I can't be sure
Sadly, it's for Haswell and higher, I'm on an older Sandy Lake CPU so could not get it to boot and then I saw in their Wiki about the requirements. Yeah, it's an old PC. (~14 yrs old and as temperamental as a teenager!) :)
Bummer! It's kinda neat to use, but yeah, they dropped older hardware support (though it's still fairly young, so maybe it will be a thing in the future).