On my desktop, I've been using Nobara's KDE Plasma variant for a bit. It's a fork of Fedora (Which is compatible with RPM packages, which means I don't have to mess with AUR or package converters like Alien to get stuff like Autodesk software, Unity Engine, or Mullvad VPN running), but there's a lot of optimizations for gaming, gaming periphreals, and the needed tweaks for RGB lighting that's already done for you.
My time with Arch was hell outside of getting NVIDIA cards functional (Although it's still a buggy experience compared to AMD's open sourced drivers, and that is probably the main reason why we still see so much circlejerking about Wayland being "bad"), and my time with Ubuntu and it's adjacent derivatives had the problem of APT as a package manager and Ubuntu forcing Snap down people's throats.
But with a chromebook that I had gotten for cheap, I flashed coreboot on it, and installed a custom Fedora barebones install (using the server version) alongside the needed dependencies to get Suckless DWM working.