I personally think its the idea of "don't touch me or me and my gang gon' fuck you up".
At least that's what I see after watching newer rap music videos romanticizing old gang war concepts in newer popular hits. Then seeing shitty streamers doing the exact same thing the videos show.
I know it's not just rap stuff, but that's just the easiest example that comes to my mind atm.
I personally split gamedev into 5 separate hobbies:
The hardest thing is to keep within your level. You're not a 1-man army who can make a Hollow Knight in a year. Start with small ideas and expand and remix them as you improve and/or find slaves. But definitely keep the big ideas somewhere bc you might accidentally make all the systems you need along the way.
I find that if my updates aren't frequent enough, then I just forget to do them altogether.
My first distro was Mint. It's great for beginner Linux users, and it's pretty stable. It also avoids the Snap problem Ubuntu forces upon their users.
If you're looking for a more bleeding edge solution, I recommend Garuda Linux. It's Arch-based, and it has a bunch of game-related stuff already installed. It might be a tad less stable due to the Arch underbelly, but I personally like the package system (pacman) a lot more than apt. Also, you get the unmatched power of the Arch wiki when you're in trouble.