It's snappier than other distros and has fantastic defaults. It also comes with a button that installs all gaming-related packages you need, so it's become the most popular choice for gaming. It's also arch-based which is nice because you get access to basically every application you need.

I've been on Cachy for a while now, zero issues.

Btrfs snapshots before and after every update out of the box, dead simple rollbacks from the bios.

It was a half dozen clicks and 45 minutes from windows shutdown, to playing a modern AAA game in cachy.

It was easier to get it running on my Nvidia laptop using the attached monitor and an external monitor at two different resolutions, and then play games, than any OS Microsoft ever made. Arch is also the distro steamos is based on.

I've been running it about two years. It seemed to be the best distro with my above mentioned hardware requirements. I had planned to distro hop quite a lot, as I'm not averse to troubleshooting and cli work, but I have never had any serious issues and I can't bring myself to mess with perfection. At least, perfect for my setup.

It comes with defaults that are very close to what I'm looking for.

Fedora lost me to the mesa-freeworld dance I had to do every major update.