It's great for offline, singleplayer games. Unfortunately some multiplayer games just refuse to work on Linux, because of the anti-cheat. But I mostly use my Steam Deck when I'm traveling and have a very poor or no internet connection, so I can only play singleplayer games anyway.
That's what I've been trying to tell my boss for the last 6 months...
I'd say Nix requires some experience, so if you are new to Linux, definitely go with Flatpak. I believe Flatpak also provides stronger sandboxing.
Oh that's cool. Looks very promising.
There are custom pre-compiled kernels that come with BORE. Not sure about Nix and I don't know if they even have custom kernels in the repos at all, but there is linux-cachyos-bore on Arch. CachyOS is a pretty cool Arch-based distro that offers multiple kernels with different optimizations. They also put them in the AUR, so any Arch user can install them.
Not yet in the Torvalds tree of Linux?
I don't think they're gonna switch schedulers that quickly. They only changed from CFS (which they used for decades) to EEVDF last October.
The BORE scheduler on Linux is even better, as it's specifically optimized for the features in these chips.