I’m on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.

I use Yazi and its amazing. Here’s their docs on how to set it up as a file picker in helix.

https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/tips/#helix-with-zellij

A word of caution on using Bazzite, it is an immutable operating system based off of fedora atomic. So there are differences/limitations in how software is installed. Not suggesting you avoid Bazzite, I’m using it on my main gaming rig, just know that it’s a bit different than a standard Fedora varient.

It depends on what you would consider stable. I would install it alongside gnome for now and try it out. You can just leave it on your system getting updates while you use gnome and just pop in every once and a while. It’s up to you if you want to enable cosmic-greeter and disable gdm for your login page, but if you want stability, just stick with gdm for now.

COSMIC most of the time and then gnome as a fallback when I run into any temporary issues I can’t work around.

I do this with a custom bluebuild image I made that uses ublue (fedora 41) as a base and then added cosmic on top along with some other layers that I need/want.