I have kubuntu on my laptop but have been using windows 10 ltsc on my desktop for the last 6 or 7 years. I've heard that lots of progress on linux gaming has been made since the steam deck was launched a few years ago and am considering switching my gaming pc over, any recommendations?
Manjaro here. It's essentially Arch with a pleasant installer, reasonable defaults, and a nice desktop theme. I recently had to switch from the KDE build to the Gnome build because KDE does NOT seem to get along with Nvidia GPU drivers right now. Now it's butter. Use Lutris to manage your windows games in their own little sandboxes, 9/10 games you'd swear they're native software. Some actually run better under linux than under Windows 11. Cities Skylines 2 was the most dramatic example. Like 20 extra fps.
A little bit of a rant for anyone reading, but if you want the Arch experience, just use Arch itself.
archinstall(which comes with the bootable installation media) makes it super easy to install with your favorite desktop environment and it cuts out the middleman who is known to break their website and repositories quite often.Or manual install and learn a bit how it all works (just a bit, it’s not LFS lol)