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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.
I see, didn’t know that about Bazzite but good to know! I’m no expert by a long shot, but luckily I have some experience with coding in vim. So I think like you, I would want something I can really fine tune myself.
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.
Sweet. I have heard of some of those but never looked into them. I’ll add this to a list to check out further 👍
The current stable version of PopOS is pretty outdated because they're working on a big overhaul
If you're not on it already, join the discord. Lots of helpers there. I recommend sticking with Bazzite and learning how to use it better. It has the tools you need to run anything you could run in any other distro. You just can't always copy and paste commands from a Google search. But that's where the discord can set you straight.
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/ explains very well how to approach it. There are different ways to install packages not pre loaded into bazzite in a very safe way. Have a look :)