I somewhat get it. I used Mint ages ago on a laptop I had. It was fine. Two years ago I decided to see if I could use Linux full time in my desktop, and I installed Ubuntu. It was fine. Windows decided to fuck things up and I never fully recovered the system, and decided to cut Windows out and start fresh, and I installed Fedora, and it was fine. I fucked that up somewhat while messing around and learning and heard about Garuda and tried that. I love it!

I could have lived with any of the previous distros I tried. They did the job fine, and I didn't think much of it. Garuda seems perfect for me though. Being Arch based is great, but it started with most of what I needed so it wasn't the typical Arch install process (though I hear that's better now than is memed). For someone comfortable with their computer skills, I think it's the perfect option for gamers coming to Linux. I probably wouldn't recommend it for someone coming from Windows who never learned computer skills, but anyone who edited registries should be able to handle it just fine.

They like it but haven't come out of the closet