In my case, the game freeze after the landing sequence on the planet, when i leave the pod. Playing via steam on Manjao Linux.
However, if I skip the start and the tutorial and start directly with Tier 1, everything is fine. Is this a known bug in 1.0?
Currently using Bazzite and an AMD 7900xt without issue.
When I was running an Nvidia card I had a number of weird issues when I was distro hopping. Gerudo, Nobara, Fedora all gave me weird slowdowns, freezes, and crashes in various games. IIRC, it was Nobara that would hard freeze the system when opening the map in Ghost of Tsushima while full screened.
Pop!_OS was the only one I found that was stable across every game I tried with Nvidia.