May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?
It’s a misconception that is any “trouble”. I’m using CachyOS, which is basically Arch but with additionally optimized repositories and settings. You just install it an use it, like Mint or Ubuntu. It just works, but it’s also faster for performance related tasks (especially gaming, but also others), importantly and explicitly without any tinkering.
Quite the opposite, actually: there much less tinkering required to get gaming specific things to “just work”, as the tweaks are all there by default. This includes running Windows programs often considered hard to run (through Wine).
I do happen to enjoy and want a rolling release. There’s a new kernel released, and I can install it like a day later. New KDE comes out, update is there for me in a few hours. Software is generally up to date, which was such a refreshing experience as I’m used to running Debian server side. Oh what a contrast.