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I'd highly recommend Mint or Ubuntu.
I love edging packages.
Beyond stoked for Plasma 6 and comfortably gaming on Arch, after installing using archinstall. Met a number of cool people from this community and appreciate how supportive and friendly people are to new users, definitely to my shock, after hearing such harsh things about the Linux community in the past. Imo, the harshness is super overblown.
Much love to y'all!
Dropping support for windows 7 was the last push I needed to get rid of closed source OS.
Nobara is cool too for those looking at Fedora pakages managers.
I might try Gentoo and Artix later since my experience level increased with the terminal.
I've experimented with distros like Fedora, Arch and even NixOS, but that's about as far out as I go. I comfortably use Debian 12 Bookworm KDE, with Backports, and am fully enjoying the experience. Hardly ever any issues and never much to change. I love it, personally.
No issues playing what I do, though a lot of it is emulation. Might be backwards compared to many, but I plan on getting a Steam Deck due to how much I enjoy desktop Linux!
I'll just stick with Alpine Edge with the Linux LTS kernel for a while before learning to use and configure NixOS...
To save myself from 32-bit dependency agony I installed Steam through Nix and run it through nixGL, cool program to run OpenGL/Vulkan programs on non-NixOS, as by default it doesn't work. Flatpak steam has its own issues from experience (primarily with zfs drives and performance). In general, I prefer creating my own build files and install natively, or use Nix instead of Flatpak, due to performance.
I don't really mind systemd, and on my t14 I decided to use systemd-homed for /home/user encryption. Can't recommend this feature if you want to use virtualization like podman rootless, as it doesn't use /etc/shadow and UID/GID mapping, which rootless requires, but otherwise it works well.
For gaming, native games I've tried seem to work all fine, as do proton games.
I mostly started this as an experiment, which is going well so far. Also gcc annoys me more now.