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Thinking about ditching Windows, finally. Thoughts? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by joaomarrom@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Hey comrades, I've just purchased a new motherboard and an MP44L SSD to put my OS and my currently-playing games in. The thing is, I also thought that this would be the perfect time to finally make the switch into Linux and a more FOSS-based approach to the time I spend using my computer.

I tried Linux like twenty years ago and did not adapt to it at all. Nowadays I'm much more knowledgeable about computers in a general way but I have a massive blind spot when it comes to Linux. I want to ditch Windows but frankly don't even know where to start the switch.

So I have the following questions, I hope you can help me figure things out:

1 - Is dual-boot a plausible thing? Like, having a Linux distro installed for everyday usage, and Windows for gaming only?

2 - Speaking of which, I've heard good things about gaming on SteamOS. What's going on with that? Honestly, I'm completely clueless and I thought it was a proprietary OS for the Steam Deck. Is it already available for PCs? Also, is it safe? I don't want to just switch the company that has me under their thumb from MS to Valve.

3 - Are there any pages / youtube channels / other kinds of resources you would recommend, so that I can do some learning?

Thanks!

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[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Dual boot is definitely an option, though it might not be necessary anymore, depends on the games you want to play.

Thanks to the Steam Deck, Linux support for gaming is better than ever, you can take a look at ProtonDB to see which games are supported and if there's any tweaks you need to do for them, you can do this for every game you'll want to play before making a decision.

Most games run fine from my experience and the type of games I like, rarely needing tweaks. So for me dual booting would just be a waste of my disk space and time having to reboot into each system when I want to go from working to playing or the opposite.

If you play a lot of multiplayer games with Anti-Cheat that isn't supported well for Linux, which is the most probable case for bad Linux support, then you can use dual booting. It's really easy to do just look up any of the top tutorials on Youtube for creating a dual boot system from scratch.