I'm a noob when it comes to gaming on Linux, having to rely on WINE just working without any changes or Proton on Steam if there's no Linux port. Still learning how to do more advanced things with WINE rather than just run and hope the program works.

So far I haven't had any major issues with getting games to play, except for a couple old PC games I found on MyAbandonware that probably need some extra work to work properly. Doesn't display correctly or play the music for either. Otherwise, my experience has been pretty good.

As for distro side of things, I don't know, outside of SteamOS on my Steam Deck, I have no clue on what's happening in the games sphere. I just have Steam downloaded from either my package manager or flathub and call it good there.

Oh, and I also have the native Itchio storefront program and it works just fine as long as I don't change the language to a certain language because it'll just cause sorts of problems ( probably due to me not having a language pack for it installed ). The one visual novel I've played on Itchio on my laptop worked just fine out of the box, but I assume that's more or less thanks to the devs.