I always loved Tekken more, because a good match between skilled players looked like something out of a choreographed kung Fu movie.
At least up to the PS2 era. It was also slower paced so you had to be more strategic. I always thought all the little character story movies were a lot of fun. SF feels very bare bones in comparison. But I stopped paying attention a while ago.
MK had a distinguishing gimmick with the fatalities, but the general character design never meshed well with me.
Back when I still had a desktop system with an NVidia GPU, I never had these problems. On my gaming laptop with an onboard intel + nvidia gpu, I also didn't have these problems. But....I'm very experienced with linux, so most noob problems are not an issue for me.
That being said, POP_OS supported GPU switchting out of the box, without having to faff around.
YMMV.
Do you have a NAS at home with enough storage?
You could use wireguard to setup a vpn tunnel, then mount your NAS's storage on your vps via nfs and using cachefilesd. If your upload speed is sufficient, this can work pretty well without too much waiting for a stream to start.
As a seasoned sysadmin, I approve.