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Luckily every gaming distro is just a bunch of configs already made that have a 50/50 chance to work. If you want rolling release your best bet is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, it's way more stable than Sid. If youre used to APT id say go to pop os. If you want to stay with Debian your best bet is to use the testing repo, Sid is for devs and people who are trying to find bugs
Yup, I use Tumbleweed and it seems to get updates as fast or faster than Arch most of the time, and it seems more stable to me. I used Arch for ~5 years and Tumbleweed for 3-4 now, and I've had to fix Tumbleweed much less (and each time was a simple snapper rollback and try upgrading again in 2-3 days).
When I used Debian, I would stick on the next stable (i.e. testing, but with a named release) until a few months after the release. For example, if I was on Debian right now, I'd probably be on bookworm (old testing, current stable) for another month or so, then upgrade to trixie and stay on that until a few months after trixie releases. Debian testing tends to get pretty unstable right after a release as a ton of things get merged from sid after the freeze, so I give it some time to stabilize.
Both are great. I just found I'm not a fan of how Debian does certain things and I generally prefer Arch and openSUSE.