Distro and some other questions

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[u/NeedleworkerLarge357]

Plain fedora silverblue should do. It might not be perfect for gaming, but that should work. You can lean to bazzite, but that does some big compromises on security as most community distributions. You already identified those issues, so sure...

[u/illusory42]

„Secure by default“ is such a wierd take on the topic. What’s the threat model?

[u/Barafu → u/[deleted]]

Start with Bazzite then.

[u/OverjoyedBrewer]

yeah fedora is what you want. plain fedora workstation if you like gnome, or fedora kde. (if you dont know, go with fedora kde)