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Thank you!
As you must have been aware of by now; there are hundreds of distros out there. Which obviously makes it a daunting task to find your distro with that overwhelming amount of distros to potentially choose from. However, quite fortunately, the vast majority is actually not even worth considering as a daily driver. Arguably only the popular independent distros (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu^[1]^ etc^[2]^) are noteworthy, unless you've got very specific wants and/or needs that are only easily accessible through a derivative of theirs. Out of these, Gentoo is perhaps too much of a deep dive at this point in your Linux journey. Slackware ain't bad, but as you've already had some experience with modern Linux distros, I find it rather unlikely that you would enjoy using it; though, perhaps, you might one day (read: decades down the line). So..., only five distros remain... On that note, for whatever it's worth, openSUSE Tumbleweed definitely stands out positively among these IMO (though perhaps another one might be shining even brighter (obviously biased 😜)).
Interesting. Are you referring to the desktop environment? Which -actually- should be reproducible on most other distros*. Or perhaps you're actually referring to YaST? Which is openSUSE's excellent configuration tool; perhaps closest thing that Linux has to Windows' Control Panel. Some even regard it as openSUSE's killer-feature, especially because most other distros (aside from MX Linux) only come with relatively basic configuration tools by comparison. In retrospect, I probably should have mentioned it in my earlier comment 😅.
I'm actually glad you aren't; they generally tend to miss out on polish. If you do end up looking into one, then I'd argue it's better to run a dedicated distro as such -perhaps as a dual boot- for all your gaming needs instead of trying to game heavily on your daily driver, unless you find that too cumbersome and/or fear for issues related to storage. I'm aware that this is probably an unpopular take*.
Aight, got ya. Well, in that case, openSUSE Tumbleweed is definitely worth considering.