I’m glad I’m not the only one advertising Jesse Welles on here. He’s probably my favourite musician right now and I feel like no one is talking about him. His lyrics align perfectly with the average lemming I feel like.

Also Ren is cool. I don’t like rap but I like him. He’s got great lyrics.

I’m not super tech savvy but have used both Bazzite and CachyOS and find them both pretty straightforward. I personally prefer Cachy and it’s what I’m currently running, but both are great for gaming. Bazzite comes with gaming stuff out of the box, and Cachy has it all in one package you can download with a single command, so they’re pretty comparable on that front. I just prefer arch as a base. Hope this helps OP as I was recently in a very similar situation.

I’ve been running CachyOS for a couple weeks now and so far it’s been fantastic. Very user friendly and great for gaming, as well as other tasks. I’d highly recommend it.

I’ve heard good things about Pop!_OS which is based on Ubuntu, but I haven’t tried it myself. I’ve looked at it through distrosea but the GNOME-like DE threw me off. I know you can change that so if I gave it a shot it would be the first thing I’d do most likely. For more general uses, Mint is great, but there’s more fiddling to play games than on Bazzite. Nothing crazy though. I’ve heard CachyOS is good for gaming too, it’s based on arch, but I haven’t tried it.

I was in the same boat as you a month ago, Bazzite has been great. Keep in mind it’s an immutable distro which does make it a bit more annoying to use the command line if, like me, you have no idea what you’re doing. Personally I’m looking to switch away from it soon because of that but it works great with steam and I’m using a 3060 and haven’t had issues. Just make sure to choose the iso file for nvidia drivers to make easier to set up at the start.