I am very happy with fedora KDE, although I have weird flickering issues since fedora40/plasma 6 and so i temporarily switched to cinnamon (which was really easy) untiljthe nvidia 555 driver releases. I can really recommend this combination
i have used arch with kde plasma for about a year on my ThinkPad. so far it is working (and updating) without a hitch.
I think the Potential, that your OS breaks somehow is higher on rolling release distros but i think Arch isn't bad as daily driver if you take the time to install and customize the system to your needs. it is not so far away from a current fedora.
you could theoretically use something like ansible and manage your stuff there. i dont know if it is really practical on arch and for your use case. theoretically you'd write how your system should be into a playbook and on a fresh install you theoretically just had to run your playbook to get all the Packages and settings you need
And „normal“ would mean a total invasion of privacy and accepting games installing malware? Bowing your head and install bootloader destroying windows on an otherwise fine machine instead of owning your system? Then I'd recommend not playing those games
This post reads a lot like "we were too lazy to think about how to properly implement multplayer and security so we just slapped some malware on top". Shame, I would have liked to try this game.
almost every day for a year. my gaming pc often collects dust