Bazzite is an atomic Fedora distro. Unless you like running everything in containers and having to upgrade everything all at once in a while and not having control over your system files, I don’t recommend it. It’s great for handheld devices because it kind of behaves like an Android device in a way. But personally I don’t like that on a PC where I want more control.

And Garuda is a rolling release Arch distro with a lot of bleeding edge (read not well tested and unstable) packages. While it’s tailored for gaming, unless you want to spend your time reading the Arch Wiki for troubleshooting your problems and learn, I don’t recommend it.

I’m gaming on Ubuntu (Kubuntu with KDE Plasma, I hate Gnome) and it’s the best no hassle option with the most community support. (Mint is probably better) If you want to spend time playing games instead of troubleshooting a distro that very few people are using, an Ubuntu based distro is the best.

You wouldn’t have any problems playing games from the 90’s. But as far as VR goes, I can’t tell you for sure but I would assume Steam VR would work?

(SpongeBob Squarepants five minutes lateur)

Yeah I did a quick search and apparently it’s supported as long as you use the official .deb package and not the Snap or Flatpak package.

Personally I kept a small 100gb Windows partition for firmware upgrades for some devices but I very rarely ever use it.