I understand your strugles. However i think that instead of bloatbuntu an arch based solution would be "less hassle" the aur has several solutions for steam in

I understand your strugles. However i think that instead of bloatbuntu an arch based solution would be "less hassle" the aur has several solutions for steam in various ways and for me to get trackmania running all it took was a yay -Syyu steam launch steam install trackmania and play. I think when it comes down to doing custumized projects like this arch based distro's seem to be less troublesome in some way or there are packages in the aur that greatly help with customized stuff, alternatively, the heroic games launcher also has trackmania. I think server based distro's are less "flexible" for custom projects like this under the hood it is all GNU+Linux but i think arch offers more flexibility for customizations. And tbh isnt any harder/unstable/or anything else they say than any other distro. Certainly if you are allready familiar with gnu+linux. I would even recommend arch for beginners. Because of the flexibility and the aur. however i wont say there wont be any struggles to get it working the way you want to since i have had similar "problems" in the past and i think that that will always be to some degree and you will only learn to solve them faster by experiencing more of them. But as you gain experience it will improve. it is also a case of knowing what will work and what not. I know that i will always make a python venv instead of a conda one because the conda envoirments are doomed with torch, cuda and glibc and conda envoirments seem to get bigger in size as well however my venvs range from 10 to 30gb as well certainly for something like a comfyui with a ton of custom nodes requiring their depencies. I understand your struggles and congratulate you on your accomplishments and thank you for sharing your experience since it gonna be helpfull for someone sometime.