I loved Bazzite for hardware compatibility out of the box but the necessity of flatpak made it enormously inconvenient as a general machine. CachyOS sounds worth checking out if I still want to game but also occasionally do real work.

I'm on SteamOS and like the immutability for tinkering with Distrobox. Lets me tinker worry free.

Ha, so true. Bazzite cured my tinkering obsession. I now have no choice but to get shit done or to... play actual video games.