I used to use Gentoo Linux, many years ago, but eventually moved back to Windows on my desktop at home for gaming purposes. With the forcible EoL of Windows 10, and the ever encroaching, and more difficult to disable, telemetry and advertisements in Windows 11, I was finally fed up enough with Windows to try Linux again.
This time around I went with Arch Linux. It has something of the "build it yourself" mentality that I liked about Gentoo, but you don't have to compile the entire system from source. I first installed it on a laptop that I don't use for gaming, and was very impressed with how far Linux has progressed since the days that I last used it regularly.
It went so well, and I'd been reading that gaming was in a much better place now on Linux than it was in the past (thanks in large part to Steam!), that I decided to install it on my gaming desktop computer. I did it carefully, setting up dual-booting so that I could drop back into Windows if I needed to for anything. I needn't have worried. A few days later (it wasn't completely without challenges, but I didn't expect it to be when I chose Arch) I had a working gaming computer that was running Arch Linux, Steam with all my favorite games, FoundryVTT, Davinci Resolve Studio, and every other important bit of software that I cared about.
I've been extremely pleased with it!
I did end up changing which apps I use for other tasks, such as my choice of RSS reader (I switched from Fluent (which works fine on Linux) to Newsflash, because it integrates better with Gnome), podcast client, and other bits and bobs. But in all the cases where I changed what software I'm using, so far, it's been just as good if not better than what I was using before.
I'll use this page to write more about my experiences thus far in the transition to Linux. Like every other page I've got up so far, it's definitely a work in progress.