looks like what happened was that A LOT of Chinese users entered the data which caused windows to go up significantly and linux to drop off slightly

I’ve been hopping between distros (and windows) for what feels like the past 6 months. Honestly it doesn’t make too much of a difference but my preference for games is fedora or arch base and wayland. The biggest difference is the default kernel version really (AMD drivers in my case) but you can also add a newer kernel to any distro. I’d recommend just choosing a distro based on the package manager you like to use and stick with that.