Barbecue Cowboy

It’s still fun… but it also really makes you realize how much Rocket League relies on fancy graphics/etc.

If I don’t get to hear “Hey you, you’re finally awake” to start my day, I don’t feel like I’m even playing Skyrim.

I used Garuda, and garuda is cool, seriously the first time user experience is fancy, but it’s also a lot and if you need more than basic support you’re probably going to be headed over to the Arch community who is going to treat you different because you’re not really fully on Arch. You’re also definitely going to forcibly learn a lot picking anything arch based as your first Linux distro.

Skipping ahead, of the choices you’ve listed and for someone new to Linux who just wants an OS to use I’d go for Bazzite.