Setting up Steam on Arch worth the time? Better use Ubuntu/SteamOS?

Hi,
I'm just wondering whether I want to invest as much time as it seems to cost to get games running on a 64 bit machine with Steam on Arch.
Should I just grudgingly set up a Ubuntu/SteamOS install? Would that actually be a lot easier? Is that actually a thing now?
What's your experience? Is it very much pain on Arch?

Right, I guess I'll be "That Guy:" The only person who can really answer the OP's question is the OP, given the vagaries of personal hardware and software configurations. What works on my machine with my OS configuration may not work on the OP's. Besides, as Awebb mentioned, SteamOS is going to be carefully crafted to work in a particular way, while Arch leaves it all up to the user. All anyone can say---or has said so far---is that it works for them.
The Steam runtime is self-contained; if you're running a 64-bit system then the Arch wiki page on Steam can walk you through installation, which consists of Steam and its dependencies (managed by pacman) and the 32-bit package for your graphics driver. In almost all cases the libraries needed for the games to run, as well as the client itself, are installed to ~/.steam and ~/.local/share/Steam, and Steam handles its own updates without touching the rest of the system. Just install Steam on Arch and give it a go. If it turns out using SteamOS works better, then just follow the wiki page in reverse to uninstall the packages on Arch, and delete the aforementioned directories. It only takes a minute to remove all traces of Steam itself.
Games' data are another matter, though. Some save data to ~/.local/share/*, others to ~/.config/*, others to ~/.*, but every game I've played via Steam saves data to a directory with an obvious name (like the title of the game or name of the publisher).

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