There are distributions with a great Steam experience out of the box? It’s SteamOS actually a good choice? Maybe isn’t what you use or prefer.
A good Steam distro for me has a very mininal procedure for perfectly working controllers, client and general user experience.
Your direct test and experience are very appreciated.
Copying from the old thread:
Nobara Linux. The official website is WIP but it’s essentially a distro aimed for gaming, with the important things like Steam and Lutris pre-installed.
I’m currently using it and it’s pretty good and reliable. It defaults to wayland though, you may want to go back to Xorg if you’re using an Nvidia gpu.
I tried Nobara and really liked it. Some games didn’t like my the hybrid graphics on my laptop tho and I ended up swapping to Pop. But I actually like Nobara better than Pop and would be using it if I could.
Or if you use Steam Link. Still borked in Wayland
Newer GPUs are fine in Wayland. I have a 3090 and Wayland is the only way I can get full refresh rates on all my monitors because X locks you to the lowest value. Only thing is that the translucency on themes doesn’t render super well and sometimes the system clock and taskbars will freeze up. That aside, it’s been a good gaming experience overall.