
To add to this-
One of the biggest traps for new linux users since forever has been to jump straight into the deep end- tweaking any and every tunable- then when that inevitably all breaks, blaming Linux and moving back.
For anyone reading- You don’t need Arch as your first distro, you don’t want to on the bleeding edge unless you’re prepared to bleed. You don’t need things like Golden Eggroll Proton or any external launchers.
Just keep it simple to start- Something like Mint, SuSE or plain Fedora with Steam using the built-in Proton.
Bazzite gets… let say ‘advertised’ a lot and it’s got a lot of good ideas - but if you’re coming from Windows I think it’s just too much - it’s an immutable system* with containers for everything. That’s an ocean away from Windows unless you were comfortable with Sandboxie beforehand (if you were, dive right in)
*\the system is read only, you cannot change anything in the default image, ie. imagine if you were never allowed to add files to c:\windows
Edit: For the newbs, an ancient meme- https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

Machining is a lot of learning, but it’s real, tangible work that gives more satisfaction than anything I did in corporate IT.
Moreover, even though the welding side can be a bit ‘blokey’ (macho?) you’ll find places fall into either horribly sexist (you’ll know within a few meters of walking in…) or millennials/onward that don’t mind who you are.
Machining side even the old men don’t care who you are, as long as you do a good job and don’t skimp on calibration.
It’s sexism in its own right, but a few of the older men prefer me doing the calibrations since they assume women=dexterous.

Everyone knows that.
But, at the very least we should be congratulatory on this - it’s bad that clans were contained to DLC in the first place and Paradox needed a good kick, but since they’ve been pliable we should give them a pavlovian pat on the head.
If you leave no room for ‘rehabilitation’ there is no reason to try to do better.
Still no chips worth actually buying though.
It’s just Sparc 2.0