

I ran Debian as my main OS for years around 2005-2010 or so. If you run the testing branch it gets you pretty new stuff. Just don’t run the testing branch for a few months after they do a stable release as that’s when all the big breaking changes take place. Also, Trixie is still relatively new and has a new enough kernel to make most GPU stuff work well. If you need a newer kernel it’s not too difficult to build a new one and use that so you can get fresher amdgpu modules, for example.
Heroic also has an option to move games to a different directory so you can move them between drives easily after they’re already installed.