I played about 19 hours on the steam beta launch, I enjoyed it for the most part. I fell off playing it though.

Daily driving EndeavourOS for over a year, game daily with no issues. Command line updating isn’t a big deal, just

sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu

Alias it or use a terminal like quake that disappears. If you want yay to just do it’s packages use -Sua instead.

My PS5 controller worked out of the box.