I’m quite new to linux gaming, and so far I’ve only used CachyOS and EndeavourOS.
I have a dedicated gaming computer with an AMD GPU, only one hard drive and no critical data. Both were easy to install but I just used the default options, didn’t try to do anything complicated.
Performance-wise, I didn’t see any difference (but I don’t care enough to run benchmarks so maybe one gives me 3% more FPS than the other). I play in 1440p.
I’ve had a few mishaps on CachyOS regarding updates (2 years ago) so I tried EndeavourOS and it’s all been smooth since then.

I guess the answer to your questions depends a lot on your gaming style and on what is important to you.
If you’re like me, you just want it to work and you do nothing else than gaming, then all the distros mentioned in this thread are about as good.
If you want to squeeze that extra 2 FPS, or if you want to game on older hardware, or if you also use that computer as part of your homelab… then there are going to be differences.
You might want to consider giving us more information on your needs/projects so that we can adjust our answers.

Welcome to linux gaming :)

At last I’ll be able to get a decent accuracy score despite my oyster-like reflexes :)

Thanks a lot for this detailed, understandable and kind answer :)

The article talks about sudo and doas being SUID binaries and having a larger attack surface than run0 would. Could someone ELI5 what this means?

I still use PWAs with firefox, but as an addon. Works flawlessy so far.
Here is the one I use, just in case: Progressive web apps for Firefox

Thanks for the info!

Is there some drama I’m not aware of here?

You also need full root access to you bank’s machines.

For the execution, can’t you configure the fstab with noexec on partitions where the user has write permissions and give the user read-only permissions on the root partition ?

I think this would be fine for most jobs, the exception being software development where you usually need to execute stuff to test your programs.

From the gitlab page:

The user can move the cursor with h,j,k,l (vim keys), or the arrow keys.

That’s also the default value on Garuda (arch-based, gaming-oriented)

OVH because cheap enough for me, europe based and reliable.

Yes you can.
I spend a lot od time fixing things that I broke because I like it and it’s a hobby for me.

I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition on my SO’s laptop last year (old thinkpad t470) and I haven’t had to do anything about it since then. The installation process was easy, I didn’t bother changing the defaults and just clicked “Next” on most of the steps.

Can you share with us the hardware you’ll be using ? In most cases it’ll be easy peasy, but some stuff is known to cause issues that we might be able to identify before you start your journey.

Please stop posting good reasons to use Linux, I already feel bad enough for the poor people stuck in Win$ and MacO$

NeoMutt is an easy to use and cool looking tui email client.

My personnal favorite is cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player

The world feels very lonely when you care about linux.

They are not storing music on the floppys, only playlist identifiers and they want their system to listen on floppy insert events and launch a playlist when the matching floppy is inserted.

CachyOS (arch-based) because I read somewhere it was good for gaming on recent rigs (supposedly pre-optimized stuff that I’ll probably never learn about).

So far so good, it’s been an almost “everything works out of the box” experience.

Had mainly used debian and arch before that.

Nah, it’s a matter of personnal preferences and use case.

I love CLI mainly because it allows me to sceipt suff, but lots of people don’t mind actually seeing what they are doing and clicking on stuff to achieve it.

It’s a good news there are piracy tools with a CLI, makes it more accessible to more people - and we should rejoice about it.