It can be (pretty much) any distro you want -- just make a minimal install, install the stuff you want, pull config files from your github and throw em in $HOME, that's it.
By telling users to change their mindset, by showing em how control is important and how the "just werks" mentality imposed by Microsoft is more detrimental than anything.
Nano is my "daily drive", but I'd use vim as well -- takes a couple seconds to search for "how to type in linux vim" and "how to save a file in linux vim" anyways. :^)
...instead of having to create an entry for every single game.
I think I might be shot and burnt alive in a cross for saying this, but... have you tried adding class="*" instead of restricting it to the steam client only? Oh, and I tried this on my opi zero 3 and it works. The performance boost was really noticeable.
bemenu. Type stuff in popup, press enter, no confettis thrown on your face.