Your mileage may vary depending on your specs, but: very happy with CachyOS on my DELL Latitude 5590.

Based on Arch, meaning you get constant updates. Many tools and easy installation compared to stock Arch. KDE is similar in it’s ergonomics compared to Windows. Many pre configurable gaming packages, getting stuff up and running is easy.

More „conservative“ and not liking living on the bleeding edge? Debian would be my personal choice. Bazzite is really interesting, but the „insistence“ on BTRFS breaks some gaming things (e.g. was not able to get Battle.net running with BTRFS, with ext4 on CachyOS it works)

No matter what distribution you choose, ProtonDB is your first stop for infos on windows games you want to get running on Linux

Remember that one, but honestly: not worth much testing a device exclusively in laboratory settings and not in real life situations.

It is a risk but I think not one you can and should avoid. At least if you want your mobile device to perform.

Exactly this. It checks periodically if a newer image for the tag of the container is available (e.g. vaultwarden:latest) and tells you about it. You can setup mail, sms, Teams, you name it.

So then you know a new version is available, can check the changelog and decide if the update is worth it.

Personally having great results with Diun. Same idea (check for newer container image) and works 100% for me.

Don’t know if it can automatically load and restart containers, rather do that personally.