I’ve always vouched for fully separate headphones + mic for years, though admittedly that’s probably less applicable for wireless preferences.

I swear by Sennheisers, currently using a Schitt DAC/amp, though offhand I forget the exact model of both. I used to stream and I sold off all my equipment except for mic RE20 XLR mic. I use an elgato stream deck plus with the xlr dock because funny knobs and buttons but their linux support is nonexistent and the foss alternatives aren’t great, but it works.

This is the move. When I installed CachyOS (a year ago today actually), I set up a dual boot - figured it’d be good to have the “backup plan” instead of jumping right into it. I found myself going back a few times for various odds and ends. Over time I found I’d been flipping back to it less and less, I think the last time I actually used it was for a stupid gacha game that I finally put down for good.

Finally got to the point where I just nuked the windows partition to free up some space. and looking back I really only kept it around in the early days because I didn’t feel confident yet. (Though I do wish I had the forethought to arrange the partitions in a logical way because I couldn’t actually extend my cachyos partition to the left, so I just opted to add it to the btrfs pool instead, it works I guess).

I’ve always gravitated toward various Arch-based distros. Installed vanilla from scratch a decade ago for a college workstation, sunk a lot of time into tinkering the steam deck’s SteamOS, and my desktop’s been running CachyOS for just about a year now - the latter’s been so smooth that I opted to wipe my Deck and install their handheld edition just because, and that’s been pretty solid too.

I haven’t really distro-hopped enough to say much else, but Cachy’s been my go-to since I first set it up and it’d take a lot to move me off if it. All the Arch benefits with some extra bells and whistles.