So after a lot of dinking around on two different machines and trying about 6 or 7 different distros, I’ve settled on Nobara and I’m really into it. It does everything I need right out of the box, it looks good, and it just works. I haven’t gamed a ton on it yet, but so far the light-weight games I’ve tried have worked perfectly.
For day to day stuff… linux is there. There’s no reason to use Windows for day to day computing stuff and, if gaming works out, I don’t see why I’d ever need to go back to the Windows boot. I’m impressed.
Anyways, thanks for the recommendation. I have a RL buddy who also recommended this distro. He said it’s a good balance between the slow updates from Ubuntu-based distros and the rapid updates from Arch-based distro. Too slow and your drivers get out of date. Too fast and you get a buggy mess. Makes sense to me.