Just a little update in case anyone is interested.
Thanks a lot to everyone who suggested distros, especially POP!_OS it seemed to be almost exactly what I was looking for.
I booted into POP!_OS last night and had a play about on the Live USB, making some tweaks etc and I really really like it. My friend who haas been using Windows for years now (also a gamer) liked the look so much he’s getting it soon as well.
I went to install it, I deleted my Manjaro partition and created a new root and boot partition but the distro wouldn’t install. Not sure the cause of the issue and I had to go to bed however other than this minor issue I’m really really happy with the look and feel of the distro and can’t wait to get using it properly.