I installed CachyOS for my 8-year old son and his desktop instead of Windows.
replyIt's been wonderful.
Gaming on Linux works pretty good now. Setup is easy thanks to Steam and other launchers (e.g. heroiclauncher).
replyNot the main focus but, FYI, a number of pieces of hardware will default to full tilt fans unless you have their tooling running to manage things.
replyNVIDIA GPUs were infamous for doing this with nouveau on less ideally supported cards, for example.
But it's the kind of things you'd expect Windows to take care of automatically, or in the worst case, to prompt the users to install on first boot, especially if Linux (with overall less driver support from manufacturers).
replyAnd with a preinstalled Windows (tuned to the laptop) this behavior should not be observed at all.