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Since you only mentioned 25% gaming, I'd recommend against a gaming-centric distro like Bazzite. Instead, use a generalist desktop distro.
Since you mentioned that you're rather new-ish, I'd recommend against Arch-based distros like CachyOS. Instead, check out e.g. Fedora, Mint, OpenSuSE. (Probably in that order of priority)
These aren't hard recommendations, so you can do whatever and probably be fine either way, but it still doesn't fit that well.
Why not bazzite? It's just kinoite with some extra stuff installed, some of which is very nice (patent things that make twitch work for example)
There’s nothing especially gaming-focused with bazzite that would interfere with general PC usage. I think it’s a great choice for “25% gaming”.
The only thing is that there’s not a lot of distro-specific guidance out there, and the immutable concept is a bit new and unusual.
I'm genuinely curious to hear what's missing here.
Our documentation guy cooked so hard he got burnt out, please read them they're excellent.
I’ve been all over the gamut of distros, arch based, Ubuntu based, you name it, and Fedora is it. It’s more bleeding edge than Ubuntu based distributions like Mint and Pop_OS, but not as high maintenance as Arch based distributions. When a Linux noob starts getting Pacman notifications about unmerged pacnew files, they’re going to get turned off pretty quick.
Fedora is rock solid, clean, smooth, and generally free of issues for me for about two years now.
Exactly. I'm being downvoted for saying the same thing 🤣