Wow. My son turned 15 this week, which means I've consistently been on Arch for just short of that.
I started with Slackware, installed from something like 75 floppy disks. A few years later I bought a new compupter, with a gfx card known to work with XFree86, and a boxed version of Red Hat Linux 4.0 with the Red Baron web browser bundled in. Then Debian for a few years. APT was a revelation - no more RPM dependency hell. Next up was Gentoo. I wrote most of the original ebuilds for wifi support.
But, after the first kid, I bounced around of a while. Tried Fedora and a few others, but I got too used to having the latest software features in a rolling release, so was never happy. Tried Arch and it stuck. I did use Manjaro for several years on my work computer at my previous company, but always Arch at home.
I think switching now would be a lot easier. Most of the applications I use have reached, more-or-less, a steady state. With CI builds and snaps/flatpacks it's not a huge amount of work to use a newer version than what is packaged with your distro, anymore.
I haven't been in a situation like Liam where something broke that I needed immediately. Close with the update to libvirt-8.1 in February, but I had my work laptop handy, so used that instead of my usual Anarchy Linux VM, before pinning libvirt back to 8.0 - finally found the config setting I needed to change this past Wednesday after testing with 8.2. It's usually the work laptop reminding me how much more stable Linux is than Windows. 1909 was good, but the two versions that IT updated me to since have constant freezes and multiple BSODs a day. If they let me, I'd wipe that machine in a second. Seriously considering it and dealing with the consequences.

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Quoting: AkonadyLinux users are willing to pay thousand upon thousand of money on games (closed source) but doesn't want to buy a proper OS and want open source software :dizzy:

I use Linux because Windows idea of multitasking meant that it could show multiple windows, but only one could actually do anything. Discovering that the FTP program paused 20 minutes ago when I switched to Netscape was an unpleasant experience and kept me away from Windows. Windows 95 mostly fixed that, but too-little, too-late. I got a Windows 7 machine for games, but it was frustrating to do work on, so it was pretty much an annoying console. No need for that anymore. I now have a Windows 10 laptop supplied by work. It runs Outlook and Teams. Win 10 is probably finally as usable as Linux, but it's different, so I stick with what I'm used to. Real work still happen on the Linux box.

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I have had no issues with the Python 3 port, mentioned by Akien, on Arch. The AUR package switched over to that version in October.

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I don't need any more games, but this one intrigued me enough. I bought the GoG version. No performance issues, but I splurged on my new system after my mini-itx Richland system die. Some graphical corruption - looked like Makurosuke from Totoro crawling around in places (or "black-dot speckled artifacting" as said by Kyrottimus). The AMD_DEBUG=nodcc setting helped with that, but caused some other things to disappear (I think it was an invisible torch I was carrying around).
I'm finding the camera control pretty wonky. I am sure part of that is the Steam Controller right side pad. The pad response is extremely insensitive, and sometimes seems to be mirrored, until the edge of the pad, at which point it's way too sensitive. Hopefully I can find a setting to smooth that out.

Off to find more graphite and make a key.

sub: No idea how much of a story it has, but there are definitely missions. I've put in less than an hour so far.

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I don't think it's just the linux version. I tried it a couple of months ago and it was slow. I tried it on Windows (work laptop) the other day and, like you said, it's playable, but it's painfully slow. Gave up and switched to For the King. My linux computer's motherboard died a couple of weeks ago, so can't compare until after I move in August (one less thing to pack). Hopefully the release push back is for performance, in general.

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