I am happy for you and don’t really care what OS you use as I’m not here to convince you. Sometimes the video driver is not all that is required to make games work. It is definitely not all that is required to further optimize a system for gaming. Especially on older hardware. How many clicks to do the stuff listed below? Still only two clicks on Cachy so I’m stating they make it easy.

Copious amounts of other gaming/system config info on their wiki, but the gaming packages include:

Proton-CachyOS - based on Proton’s bleeding-edge branch and applies a number of modifications on top of it. - Steam has it listed for use.

Wine-staging patches/Wine Fullscreen FSR Includes video and audio codecs for game cutscenes Support for umu-launcher including UMU-Protonfixes Adds early hotfixes/workarounds for games Gaming related libraries

Tools - Gamescope, GOverlay, MangoHud Launchers - Steam, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, Faugus Launcher

Edit: BTW, I game on Mint too. But after sampling Cachy on a test box, I’ll be changing that on my main system.