I’d say CachyOS there is a learning curve but if you know these windows terms: registry, batch, sfc /scannow … then you already have enough technological know how to get started with rolling release.

My advice for gaming on Linux is to have a seperate hard drive where you store things you care about (including games) so you are able to wipe everything in case something goes wrong.

Yes, but CS2 is cheater riddled and deadlock announced an AC that to my knowledge we don’t know much yet.

Sc2 is also cheater riddled. Valorant has kernel AC.

Which games are those ?