Using Manjaro KDE here, as well. Granted, I mostly play Counter-Strike, Risk of Rain 2, Stellaris, and various indie games, but pretty much everything has been very smooth. Very glad to be free of Windows on my main machine, and it hasn't really affected how I use my PC day-to-day.
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20/20 here. Honestly a bit of a surprise.
I'll give a third to Fedora, it's definitely a good option (though I'll admit I prefer KDE to Gnome, so I tend to go with the Fedora KDE spin). I'd also agree with several of the other commenters suggesting Linux Mint. It's a pretty good distro to get started on, and the Cinnamon desktop environment is reasonably familiar to those coming from a Windows background.
Looking forward to seeing if this trend will continue with other game platforms; I know the r/GlobalOffensive subreddit spun up the @cs magazine on Kbin a while back, and I'm sure there's some others that are doing the same.
Thanks for looking into it on your end; I'll see if I can track down any more info as to what might be causing it on my system, then.
You bring up a good point with utilities like Bitwarden and Proton Mail; things that look nice and have good functionality attract the average user much more easily.
I'm generally pretty pleased with the update, save for one thing: something with the new overlay causes CSGO to crash immediately upon launch. I've worked around it by disabling the overlay for the time being, but I'm hoping that they can get this fixed soon nonetheless.
Star Control II for sure. Fantastic game, still one of the best story-based games I've played. Heavily inspired a lot of more modern franchises, too, including Mass Effect.
CSGO and Northgard both have native clients; I think Northgard's native client has an issue where you can't use the Steam overlay in-game, but I believe that's some sort of OpenGL glitch. Otherwise they're both pretty flawless.