Indeed. Took me 20min from starting install to having my first game on Steam. Best experience ever. Never looked back.

You may find it hard to believe but that doesnt mean you are right. Most ditros are quite easy to set up. Ubuntu and Mint are both already modified Debian. Why not some other modified one? A distro modified to game is already set up for gaming.

I've been using linux since the late 90s. I've tried all major distributions. My gaming rig runs bazzite, and nothing else comes even close in out-of-the box experience.

You could try it, it might change your mind. It did for me, I switched after a decade on Fedora.

I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu

Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it's newer, it's based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it's newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.

Bazzite is special because it's an immutable distro, so it's highly unlikely you'll break stuff by poking around.

What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.

As opposed to Cannonical, which has been making slow pushes over the years to control Linux via Snaps?

but in this case, actually, I proposed it bc i've seen synthetic tests that compared this distro to others, and it yielded interesting results, so i actually wonder about what the results would be in the gaming context, as the testing specific varies greatly.

in other words

I'M THE NERDEST NERD, AND THOSE NERDS AREN'T NERDING THEIR NERDY STUFF ENOUGH

or... something like that

i guess it's my new version of archbtw

i just find this distro to be genuinely worth everybody's try, as it's easy to set up, and it comes with custom-built packages (they mostly just add some comptime flags), that favor optimisation for the modern hardware over backward compatibility.