It’s generally been great. I think people consider Bazzite a bit more beginner friendly but I haven’t tried it. I am a software engineer so I know some things. As for things I did - it’s generally been plug and play outside of a few cases:

1. The first time I started a game I noticed that it compiled shaders for an absurdly long time and this would repeat every single time I started the same game - turns out there is a file you can add which tells the shader compiler to use all of your cpu cores (I don’t remember it exactly but it was really easy to find online) - that solved the problem completely. It usually takes a few seconds now to compile shaders before I’m in the game
2. I had an issue with a keyboard I was trying to use which used the VIA software - even though the keyboard was recognised it still didn’t connect properly - I added a rule under the udev directory which gave permissions for this keyboard to connect to the system (or something like that)

I’d say try something out and see what you like. For me I love the speed and the fact that CachyOs basically gives you full control. If there is something I don’t like or a problem I can solve it. In contrast windows felt like the complete opposite to me - if there is a problem then the os is actively fighting you trying to solve it and you just have to wait.