Linux Gaming

Arch. If it's not a server, arch. Always arch.

Nobara but considering other option such as Bazzite and GLFOS.

Void Linux with XFCE on my desktop, and Bazzite on my media center PC.

Debian Stable

Currently Pop!_OS

Slackware current.

This isn't a troll. I use it to game on my dual core pentium lovingly dubbed 'the craptop'. And I use it to game on my mid-tier gaming PC.

You can game on just about any distro -- I'm using NixOS and it's great for many reasons, but also can be a real pain to learn and to solve new problems.

But if you're looking for the easiest to set up that will be most likely to just work and gaming is a priority, go for Bazzite.

I will second Fedora and Debian as extremely solid, well-supported distros, though both will require some initial setup (mostly enabling nonfree repos, especially for Nvidia gpus)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Meets all my requirements 😀

Fedora atm, I heard it's pretty good I haven't really tried anything else.

Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it's rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.

Endeavour OS! So far it's been smooth for the past 4 years. I've enjoyed it.

Fedora KDE works great for me, but I'm quite comfortable with Linux already

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed here, both on my desktop and Steam Deck. i like the stable rolling release model. Allows me to get shiny new things that have at least gone through automated tests.

And in case anything goes wrong it comes with snapper configured by default for easy rollbacks.

Fedora and steamOS

Nobara (Fedora)

Tried Bazzite for a year. Was fun but now back to a normal distro.

Fedora

I game on Fedora because it was just the OS I installed on my gaming PC when I moved to Linux. Everything is fine between Steam, Heroic, and Lutris. The NVIDIA drivers were easy to install from the App Store and the only game that doesn’t run well is Death Loop but there’s been some updates and I haven’t tried it in six months so it may be better now. There was a memory leak apparently but I think there were more problems.

Just rolling with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I just run Arch, I've been an Arch guy for years and never saw any reason to switch

Cachy OS on personal PC and Bazzite on steam console (htpc) and a onexplayer handheld. Then just good old steamos on the steam deck.

Another vote for Bazzite. It's been such a smooth experience for a year or so.

Eh, I don't find dnf very limiting nor do I frequently get stymied by a missing package.

I don't think the hard part of linux is getting proprietary GPU drivers. They all have package managers that will grab them for you, after quick google search anyway. Mint will have the most specific google support for more esoteric problems/goals. Pika OS includes gpu driver bundles and is similarly debian based. But it wasn't good at waking from sleep on my old hardware with 1650super. Too hard to fix.

Bazzite on the living room PC.

I'm a Linux Mint user and I've not had many problems using Steam as a Flatpak.

NixOS. Works great. I'm a bit of a masochist.

Bazzite and Mint

Pretty much any distro will work for gaming these days. Really up to personal preference. I use Arch but have heard good things about Pop!_OS.

Bazzite runs great on my main gaming PC in desktop mode and on my HTPC in gaming mode. Maintenance is minimal and it just works (on AMD hardware), while packages are pretty recent and it's absolutely stable.

I started with Bazzite but wanted a system that wasn't immutable, so I switched to Garuda. Both have been easy and reliable.

Guix

Mint for two years. Then Arch for a decade. This year I have been trying out CachyOS.

Bazzite. Literally built for gaming.

Fedora on my desktop, bazzite (rebadged fedora) on my steam deck.

I'm always a lil surprised how few fedoras I see on these posts. Fedora is chill. Considering the difference between distros is basically a package manager, seems weird the second most bleeding edge distro doesn't get much love.