Could you edit your post to include the solution for anyone else with the same issue coming across this post in the future?

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Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.

I’ve found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it’s gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I’d probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie