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Not everyone's hobbies include operating systems unfortunately
It's not like most distros require more work than windows.
Prostrating yourself before a corporation to avoid any learning is just sad.
Just avoid arch/manjaro/linuxfromscratch (distros for enthusiasts) and install bazzite ("just works" for gaming but harder to change and horribly convoluted package management) or fedora with KDE plasma/cachey (fedora has less configured for gaming out of the box but unless you have strange peripherals or extremely old hardware everything will just work).
Fedora isn't going anywhere, updating your system and installing software will be easier than windows. Your DE will already include password management, email, notes, chat, keyboard config, display/desktop config, theme management etc. Fedora comes with everything essential already configured.
"I think windows is bad and it's a shame that it's difficult to use something else" is prostrating myself before a corporation, got it.
"Just use Crispy Glorpy Distro!" Okay. Except some things don't work on it. Oh yeah because you should have used Sploot Fart distro dunbass. Okay. Except now some different things don't work. Oh yeah that's because you aren't using Hyperbonkland. Okay. Oh shit wow you installed Hyperbonkland don't you know the lead dev is a Zionist. No I did not know that how would I. Now what do I use. Oh well now you have to use...
Oh and the whole time half the community is being an absolute asshole to you because how dare you don't already have the 40 years of apocryphal knowledge that we all have. Like you are right now to me.
It's endless. I've tried before twice in my life. I never got all my shit working on anything except my steam deck, my PC, and a Mac, all of which I did successfully get all my shit working on with minimal effort, and all of which is still working with zero effort. I use my PC for a lot beyond browsing the web and playing games. It's got external hardware devices galore plugged into it and I need all of that to continue to work so I can enjoy my actual hobbies.
Not everyone's hobby can be operating systems. I think it's great that some people's are, but it's not mine.
Someday I'll be able to switch to steamOS or someday Linux hobbyists will figure out how to make it actually accessible but we ain't there yet because let's be honest, that's not really the Linux community's goal. And that's okay. Not everything is for everyone.
If your issue is with peripherals working, you shouldn't expect much to change with SteamOS. At the end of the day it is an Arch based distro, and there's not going to be some amazing bit of kit that they develop that makes every peripheral that manufacturers support on Windows/MacOS work on Linux flawlessly. (In the event they did develop such a product, it would probably be open source like Proton so Linux as a whole would benefit)
Like you said, it's okay for Linux to not be for you but I think you're doing yourself a disservice if you believe that X distro is going to change that for you. The inconvenience of learning a new OS and having a few peripherals that don't work as they did before has to outweigh whatever issues you have with Windows/MacOS. Everyone has their own threshold and that inconvenience is getting smaller by the year, but it will never be a decision with no compromises.