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Maybe Fedora Silverblue? Bluefin is built on top of Fedora anyways. You will find more support online for Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite over Bluefin.
I know Bazzite over Silverblue/Kinoite can make sense so that you can have RPM steam and also not deal with the Nvidia driver hassle on immutable distros, but the advantages of using Bluefin is a bit unclear.
And we will be the first to tell you that most of that doesn't apply.
Reason to use Bluefin is to not have any proprietary software (aka Steam) included while still having all the open source bells and whistles from Universal Blue (Distrobox, Just, brew, devcontainers, fzf, ripgrep, etc).
Though I guess Bluefin does include the proprietary nvidia drivers.