Garuda is great. I tried Bazzite on my nvidia based laptop and had problems getting it to work well (to be fair to Bazzite, this was well over a year ago when Bazzite was very new on the scene - I have no idea if i'd have the same problems today). Replaced it with Garuda (which I had been running on my desktop) and it literally "just worked". And, frankly, I'm a linux idiot. I basically just read the messages that pop up occasionally and do my best to do things like they say (for example, I try to remember to run updates before the system has to tell me "hey, it's been a bit. Would be best if you would update me soon").

Speaking of being an idiot... I don't even know if I HAVE to download the "dragonized" version to get all the gaming bells and whistles just as easily, or if I can use their KDE plasma version that doesn't have all the theming and still get the "gaming" tweaks? Since my system works, I don't want to install a new version just to find out, but I feel like I could convince other people to try it more if they got the same functional experience without all the purple glowing stuff out of the box.

I hadn’t heard of Garuda before! I’ll check it out!