Just be aware of what you are installing. And do your best to audit your system regularly. Switching to a bleeding edge distro, and using thebAUr absolutely comes with risks. But it is up to the user to be aware of what they are installing. This goes for any OS. Be aware of what you are installing.
This can happen on any OS you install software willy nilly with no thought behind it.
It has a page listing those tools too, Alacritty, and more.
An observation, but a popular terminal emulator app I use isn't listed: Yakuake
I'm not sure if there is a list of games anywhere that perform better with NTSYNC, but the few intested with disabling esync and fsync and enabling ntsync using wine-Wayland with GE-Proton didn't have much difference in performance, confirming that NTSYNC was being used by using Mangohud.
But so far no real difference on a few games I tested: Cyberpunk 2077, Doom: The Dark Ages.
Arch. No I'm not being a troll or suggesting something bad.
The reason I suggest Arch by itself is because of ArchInstall script. From there, it's simple to use.
Learn to use pacman, and maybe an AUR Helper like Paru or Yay.
Arch Wiki is quite robust.
Arch has been the least limiting experience I have had with Linux thus far.
You wanna delete system files, do it, I dare you. Oh, it broke your system? Okay, not a problem. I haven't encountered a situation it wasn't recoverable. You wanna test bleeding edge custom kernels with drivers that are the newest available? Done.
If you're afraid of reading, troubleshooting, and trying new things to test your mettle? Yeah, go with something else.
There is very little I haven't been able to do with my Arch setups. I ditched Windows, and can't go back.