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If you want to daily drive linux, I recommend just installing only linux and commit to it for a bit. If you dual boot you may just find that you end up booting into windows and dont go back.
also recommend considering a rolling release distro. idk about Ai stuff but for games, a rolling release is almost always better.
Dual-boot is the way to go TBH, especially with a NVME drive, even if you land on Linux as your daily driver
Reboot and switching OS if needed for compatibility is only a 30 second or less process.
Yes exactly. I switched BIOS to load ubuntu, and it's working perfectly! I needed to flip back to windows for some info and it was a breeze to reboot between both.
i dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10.
Havent had issues much, even done upgrades of each. Ubuntu updates do sometimes trip out Bitlocker and prompt for a recovery key.
I have the same use case. Ubuntu for most things. Windows for gaming only.
I even do this with an eGPU. Ubuntu does well with it using X11 (not wayland) but requires reboots to connect/disconnect the pcie channels. Windows is better at it but struggles with USB enumerations on occaison.
Looks good enough for me. Even simply a browser + a single board computer + any "standard" Linux installation can be good enough as is for gaming/"browser stuff" if you don't mind limiting your gaming collection to a handful few of... 200(?) that changes every now and then by your gaming overlords. And yes, I'm talking about XCloud.
Mint is pretty lightweight so I’d almost argue that you have room to install a heavier distro if your PC is fairly high spec’d.