The first point of bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros is to prevent such breakages. updates aren’t applied over your existing installed packages, the base read only part is updated and your layered packages come after if you even have any. A kid’s computer won’t need it though. Most of my installed software is flatpak, appimage, or brew. I have maybe 3 packages installed via rpm-ostree. If I ever need anything not possible this way it’s not a job for my gaming pc.

if anyone goes to see it, let me know if it’s noticably bettee

I have to remember to check this out. its on my reminders in my self host calendar but its been offline fpr quite some time after moving.