Arch Linux for gaming?

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I've been using fedora but I would like to try something new and I think about arch linux but I don’t know if it’s good for gaming. What do you think?

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After learning about nix, I'm surprised steamos isn't built on it

There's a limit to how much you want to tinker with the OS when customizing it.

Also, Arch has about 10k binary packages in core, extra and multilib.

Steam is its own package manager and native games usually assume that an FHS-conformant is present. Neither of those mesh well with Nix notoriously has nothing comparable to an FHS and usually requires everything to be defined in its terms.