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It sounds like this will be your fist time running Linux. In that case I would recommend against using CachyOS or Arch. Those distros are meant for experienced users that are willing to solve problems on their. In the words of the Arch wiki:
In general, you can have a good gaming experience on almost any distro. The main limitation is probably running brand-new hardware, which can be a bit difficult on some of the slower distros (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Mint, ...). There are only very minor performance differences between distros.
If you're a new user that wants to use a fast-moving distro with many options for customization, I'd recommend Fedora (e.g. Fedora KDE).
I think it's important to realize that these old stereotypes aren't necessarily as true as they used to be. I started on Bazzite and it was great, but I didn't like immutability so I switched to Garuda. It's an Arch distro and is dead easy and super beginner friendly.