I'm working and gaming on Garuda for over 3 years and not planing to switch any time soon.

It runs super smooth, with the build in 'wayback machine' and 'curated' Arch distro (7.0 zen kernel just dropped a week ago) pretty much bullet proof for beginners or as a daily distro if you want to get stuff done w/o caring much about it - just loving it. On the other hand side you have cutting edge gaming tech like wine/proton staging versions per default, so I'm playing Blizzard games with NTSYNC (the tech from the article) for several months now :) Forgot about most of the flashy default UI though :D

Pretty cool distro! I switched to Bazzite myself but I've also seen a lot of popularity for CachyOS for gaming rigs.

That's exactly the kind of flashy, gaming-forward distro I was drawn to as a teenager. Good times :)

I sometimes wonder if my modern machines could run Sabayon's DE with high performance.

When I wrote the comment you replied to here, I of course had Sabayon in mind.

Sabayon had some loveliness beyond that surface level, too. If the distro still existed (MocaccinoOS is a thing nowadays, but it's a completely different base), I'd probably spin it up out of nostalgia.