I use bazzite. I am a software developer at day, working on Unix exclusively. Let me try to give my reason.

I don’t WANT to fiddle around with some random bullshit when all I have in the evening are 1-2 hours. I want to boot the system and just get cracking with a game. Even the 1-2 hours of installation time are already a hard sell to me. It’s ~20% of my weekly gaming time.

And it’s never usually just „a minor amount of configuration“, is it? Depending on what game you are playing, what hardware you have, you can easily spend hours getting a game to work properly, and that’s with bazzite.

I want something that just works, I don’t want to spend hours figuring out magic incantations.

Though admittedly, with AI it’s gotten easier to figure out magic incantations.