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I'm running Arch, which I find to be the most frictionless when you're trying to do sort of "bleeding edge" stuff like this.

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It is time for me to give desktop Linux another try (which will be my first serious try in 10 years).

Yes definitely! Things have come a long way in 10 years, in my opinion. If you are looking for something more "set up and forget about it" though I would definitely recommend Ubuntu over Arch. I use Arch because I (usually) enjoy tinkering and customizing and setting things up exactly how I want.

Edit for a little more detail: I used Ubuntu for a long time on my desktop and actually did quite a bit of gaming on it. Mostly stuck to games that have native Linux support but from what I hear the compatibility layer that Valve has released is actually really good. If gaming is your thing.

All this is to say, things that were once supposed to be impossible on Linux are now very much possible.

I ran Arch for a few years before leaving Linux 10 years ago.

You'll feel right at home then.

If I understand one of the comments here correctly, I would still need XWayland for vscode, which relies on Electron and consequently Chromium; is that not true?

Don't.... You will waste a big chunk of time on playing windows games on linux....

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