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Bazzite is great but gaming is also great on any distro.
Alternatively there are lots of gaming focused distros. Garuda, Chimera, Nobara, etc.
The difference between them will mostly be the "out of box experience", what software comes pre-installed, and what package manager is used.
I recommended Debian or Ubuntu based distros if you plan to use anything else, as if the dev releases software outside of Flatpak, it's usually a .deb file.
Make sure you have GearLever for appimages.
You can always use distrobox. There's no need to run a distro because you need an app that's only available there.
None except that you have to figure how the fuck to use distrobox.
distrobox enter
sudo dnf install htop
distrobox-export --bin \usr\bin\htop
sudo dnf install anyguiapp
distrobox-export --app \usr\bin\anyguiapp
after that you can use htop or anyguiapp like a normal command on your computer
Images to use: https://github.com/toolbx-images/images
I'm not looking for tutorials. I was making the point that you don't need to learn to use it. You just double click the file and you're done.
I should've guessed when you recommended ubuntu. Sorry for that.
I didn't recommend Ubuntu. I recommended Ubuntu-based distros.
There's a pretty good tutorial for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Yeah, the point is I don't want to watch the tutorial. Even if I did, it'd probably all be gibberish to me.
On Debian I just click the file and Bob's your Uncle.