I use Fedora (KDE) and game a lot. While I mostly like it, I've had some problems with it that were non-trivial to solve, so if you're a Linux beginner I would not necessarily recommend it to you.

Perhaps Bazzite would be a good option? It's based on Fedora and created with gaming in mind. I got it recommended here and installed it on a friend's kid's computer and he's very happy with it so far.

There's also Nobara which builds on Fedora to create a gaming-focused distro.

Go Fedora for Gaming with new hardware. If you're a couple generations behind in hardware, Mint will do just fine.

Fedora gets new hardware support faster along with newer drivers, same with Arch and Arch-based distros (like EndeavourOS, BazziteOS)

If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

Other than that... don't use NTFS to store your games.

Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?

In addition to steam with proton, you can add :

• ProtonGE : it's a modified version of Proton, if games don't work with the default Proton versions you can try this one and sometimes it fixes the issue.
  • Don't bother installing it manually, though, just install ProtonUpQt with your package manager, run it, and have it install the latest ProtonGE for you. Then you go in steam, in your game's compatibility options, and you choose ProtonGE in the list. It's not needed for most games, but it's nice for those few cases where the game doesn't work.
• Protontricks

AMD GPU is good, it means you won't want to die installing Nvidia drivers if you choose Fedora.

Mint is still on X11, though there is Wayland support in experimental stage. But if I were gaming, I'd find a distro with up to date Wayland support out of the box, like Fedora.

Can you be more specific. Can't understand your question.

I use open suse it’s nice

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/01/16/gaming-on-linux-how-os-stacks-up/

Fedora.

When you launch steam go to steam settings and enable compatibility to use proton, that'll get a larger portion of games to work

Bazzite is probably a safe bet.

I use cachyos, it has an install gaming packages button that does all that for you, also have amd gpu and cpu, I use blender and steam fine