On my gaming rig I run and love Garuda, which is also based on Arch. I’m technical enough to handle Arch but I don’t like having to search around a bunch to figure out which combination of packages I need to make certain things work. Garuda comes with a ton of stuff preinstalled, which makes it a lot less lean than Endeavour, but I think they generally make good choices for default settings (I love their Fish terminal setup), and things like Nvidia drivers and configuration backups through btrfs snapshots just work out of the box.

For gaming I think Garuda or Nobara are the best bets, personally.

I respectfully disagree that the shrug should be read as indifference to the issues going on. I think the rest of his apology, regardless of whether it was sufficient or not, shows that he is taking it seriously.

That’s not at all to question your decision to be done with LMG. Anyone who chooses that in this situation is completely justified, IMHO. Madison’s accusations especially are very troubling, and I hope they deal with it thoroughly, and tell us what they did after it’s taken effect. That sort of behavior is completely unacceptable and if it means that Linus needs to go, then Linus needs to go.