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I hear Bazzite is good for gaming but I haven't personally used it.
I use Linux Mint on my machines (except my NAS which has TrueNAS going on it) and I've got no complaints so far other than my vertical monitor being a little tough to have a vertical login screen (though that's so niche it's barely even worth bringing up) and I'm not even sure that's an issue on other distros (I don't distro hop)
My experience with Manjaro is from a decade ago (oh God I'm old) so it really doesn't apply to anything modern but I have heard it recommended at least a few times and a friend of mine swears by it for everything (he always reminds me it's based on Arch BTW)
My other friend who uses Linux swears by Pop!_OS and he loves it. I personally don't really dig the default look of it.
All three of us primarily play indie titles if that makes any difference for you.
Personally I'm moving away from Windows this year (ideally before the end of June) so I'm curious what distros others here recommend as well
I second Bazzite! I daily drive this for my gaming and every browsing, with some occasional forensic analysis. It's really really great!!
I use bazzite, and it admittedly isn't the best for out-of-the-box development work because of it being atomic
You can just make a container for your development, but I'd rather not (I just layer packages atm and I'm working on making my own image based on it that has the stuff I want)
I recently built an AMD based gaming computer with Bazzite and it works fantastically. I have found that atomic distros from Fedora just work, and Bazzite makes gaming super simple