I know that it’s a different options from what OP wanted. But I’ve had the same battle in my mind, ended up with Fedora Server.

Hello Jellyfin.

Bazzite is great because is rpm-ostree based. But you need to understand a little bit the concept of atomic distro. For gaming, I think it comes packed with most of the required things so imo, try Bazzite. Also, linux mint it’s very easy to use, fi you do something simple and you need to reinstall the distro, maybe something was done wrong from the beginning.