It's literally based on a 2 year old Ubuntu LTS... This is what I mean. It's very outdated.

So what’s your alternative?

Bazzite or Cachy

Mint won't even boot for me because it doesn't support my year old GPU (9070 XT). That's a huge miss when someone is looking at an OS primarily for gaming.

I’ll look into Cachy. Bazzite I’m not going to touch because it seems politically toxic.

Fedora Workstation, Fedora Silverblue, regular (non-LTS) Ubuntu are in my experience best for newbs. After that Debian. After that Arch.

For gaming specifically, I've heard good things about Nobara (dev is a RedHatter, though it's his personal project) and CachyOS.

just use ubuntu