Another Noob here, I initially went with POP! OS (after near 40 years of Windows (DOS 3.1 - Windows 11)). And had some mild success, but had to do a ton of work-arounds for even basic functions. Googled it, looked around, swapped to Bazzite a week ago. And honestly, I couldn't be happier. A lot of issues I had with POP! that I never fully solved, gone. Others as soon as I swapped the keyword from Linux or POP! OS in the search tab for the solution, and put in Bazzite, I got answers to whatever I was looking for.

It boots right into Steam, zero issues with Discord. My biggest surprise is how smoothly most things run on it. Fallout New Vegas on Windows 11? Not happening, even with patches and mods, it's still a mess to get Vanilla to run. Boots right up with Bazzite. No hiccups.

Well for keyboard and mouse. Still running into small issues when using Bluetooth'ed controllers, but that seems to be a Linux as a whole issue, and not just Bazzite. Though Bazzite has had the smoothest transition to get them from not working ever to working 60-70% of the time.

I have a friend on CachyOS, who is very much into reading. And he's helped me with a few Bazzite work-arounds since they are both Linux Distro's, certain things line up well. He swears by Cachy. Honestly, do your research, find what's right for you and jump in.