Bazzite was the breakthrough for me. All my stuff just worked. Only 2 things I had to fix was

1.adding 5.1 audio over Spdif, which was a single ostree command to make it permanent.

2. Installing Proton-GE for one of my games that does not do well under normal proton.

Took about an hour to research and fix both.

I had tried to covert 4 times in the 5 years before. Ubuntu, linux mint and endevourOS would not play well with my hardware in years past.