I’m not great at Linux, did programming for most of my life in Windows, but so far I’ve gotten by for about a year in CachyOS (uses Arch). Having it work so well in gaming has been a strong motivator.

“Hey, I tried the recommended GUI package manager and everything got messed up. Is anyone looking into this?”
“lol just use pacman -Syu in terminal”
“…k, guess I will, but I’m not about to recommend this to anyone else”