I tried a few distros this year. Landed on vanilla arch using KDE Plasma. Love it so far. Unfortunately I do some hobbyist stuff with Fusion 360 and my friends and I started playing PUBG again so i need to boot into my windows partition for those.
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Previously was a Manjaro gamer, and had a perfectly seamless experience.
Migrated to Fedora, got some weird new issues, but running games through Steam solves everything.
Holy shit there's so many sub-distros in this thread:
Arch
- EndeavorOS
- Cachy
- Void
- Nix
- Manjaro
Which one do we install for gaming, or do we wait for SteamOS on Desktop?
Void and Nix aren't Arch-based.
Which one do we install for gaming
If you have to ask, I recommend Linux Mint. It's not Arch based, which is a good thing because it's going to be really stable and easy for people new to Linux.
Steam is the same regardless of distro because it ships all of its own dependencies, even for Linux games. So if a game works on Arch or SteamOS, it should work on Mint, Fedora, etc.
If you want something that feels like SteamOS, I've heard good things about Bazzite, but my recommendation is still to use Linux Mint and install Steam and Heroic, and then you'll be good to go. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed, but again, I recommend Linux Mint for someone new to Linux, because gaming should be nearly identical between distros and Linux Mint has a large community of people to help when you run into issues.