Yes, I've heard the same and confirmed from experience everything that's been said haha. I do like Debian and derivatives, but it's true that more often than not, the libraries that games require are always outdated there (even using sid) which means a lot of stuff not even launching... The small scene from Linux repacks also relies on the latest libs, I remember LinuxRulez telling a lot of people to ditch Debian and use Arch instead if users wanted to use their repacks without any issues. Time flies, I miss that dude.

The general argument I've read in the gaming community is that many run their games through Wine anyway, so playing everything natively takes a backseat and isn't a priority, which I suppose works too I guess... Personally I would always prefer native builds when available, but to each their own. 😅