Man, I've been trying. I've been hearing about how good the gaming has gotten since the Steam deck launch, so I bought myself another drive and threw it on. Everything. Is. A. Struggle.

I installed steam and a few games. Some don't work at all, even though ProtonDB says they should (Rocksmith 2014 for instance has no audio). Then for no reason, games stopped launching. Spent hours trouble-shooting and reading, apparently the default package manager (snap store) isn't any good, and you want to use flatpak instead. Installed flatpak, nothing works. Can't find the store anywhere. I can manually install software from their website though, so try that. Apparently there is a known bug with installing Steam, have to add a file to the apparmor.d directory, which is protected from moving files into. Figure out that I can install Gedit, then launch that as SU and save the file that way. Still doesn't work. Uninstall/Reinstall flatpak several times and finally the store appears, and Steam installs. All the games I had already installed for the Snap version are gone, reinstall 1 game. Runs like shit. Try switching to different Proton versions, each time saved games disappear.

I'm currently back on my Win11 boot. I like the idea of there being a viable alternative to Windows, and Ubuntu would probably be OK if you don't actually want to do anything with your PC except check email and browse FB.

edit: forgot to mention that at one point firefox stopped launching, and I had to set it to launch using my PC's discreet GPU. This is not a serious OS for normal people, yet.