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I actually really like openSUSE Tumbleweed for gaming, personally. It's rolling release, keeps up-to-date with the latest feature and security releases, and manages to be far more stable than any other rolling release I've tried, and I've tried my fair share lol.
It does require a little extra work at the beginning to get all your stuff sorted out -- non-free drivers and libraries, though they're easier to get access to than ever -- but once that's done, it's largely minimal tinkering to get games up and running on Steam or Lutris or Bottles or whatever else launcher you choose to use. I was running Elden Ring the day after it dropped and all I had to do was switch to ProtonGE, for example, and while that's not the greatest achievement ever I think it's pretty great.
Valve has really done a lot of good work though, and using most Linux distros to game seems largely trivial compared to how it used to be.
I switched to Linux recently and been researching on Distros for weeks with tables and stuff. I decided for Tumbleweed with KDE and it just feels so good. Wrote some scripts so I can run a system update with pre and post snapshots and a restart and it gives me so much confidence to tinker around and learn more about Linux. Snapshots in general are just so damn great.