Reddit Linux are just a bunch of gaming chuds. and I say that as a gamer.
They’ll take time to understand the landscape and there’s nothing wrong with that, yes reddit is dogshit but you won’t convince anyone by just telling them. They just have to look around for themselves.
All your concerns are valid and Linux handles all these well except:
If you play competitive games with kernel anti cheat it will simply not work on Linux courtesy of the game developers.
Linux is fully capable of running the game and the anti cheat but the game developers restrict it. Notable games are cod, fortnite, apex legends.
A notable competitive game that works on Linux is cs2 although you won’t be able to run 3rd party anti cheat like FACEIT as far as I know.
You can use the proton site to tell you how many of your games on your steam library are playable on Linux.
I’m on my 8th month or so using Linux to game and I’ve had no issues, most popular games will work. Most niche games use very simple tech like SDL and will just work.
Wine essentially creates a fake windows environment and handles a lot of internal API calls by kind of redirecting them to existing Linux services, so a lot of windows stuff will just work.
As for security. You realize most of the Internet runs on Linux ? Practically the majority of the internet is hosted on Linux machines.
As for a distrto there is no optimal choice you can make.
You can pick Ubuntu, Debian or Mint and find yourself disappointed in how restricting the power user experience is.
You can pick arch or cachy for the latest wine improvements but find yourself lost in how to handle the OS in case something goes wrong.
I personally think cachy (rolling release) is the best for gaming but you could encounter issues (skill issues really) that might frustrate you. These issues would lead to growth and improvement in your understanding of Linux but if all you want to do is game and you don’t care about understanding computers then it might not be for you.
I’m not gonna lie I read this as I was heading to bed and it kind of ruined my mood not because of anyones fault but because it’s true. what the fuck do we work for ?
they could have just called gims or gim
naming stuff is important
Apparently SteamOS doesn’t have plans for large scale desktop support. I’ve been using cachyos for the last 4 months while playing games on my NTFS Windows steam libraries and it has been fine. On Nvidia even.
also capitalists calling for fucking RTO again, fuck
and then absolutely everyone I talk to will do usual ‘oh it’s not that bad , you’re over reacting’ with the additional “I don’t use it but I still have it installed”
because explicitly declaring types can be redundant, if the compiler knows a lot of the times you should also know
also because some types are extremely cursed: see std views/ranges
I specifically said this advice because dual booting windows with Linux is a terrible idea.
Although you are right, if you USB read/write is slow it will be a sluggish experience.
You should just test run it from a bootable usb.
Install steam. Mount your NTFS drive which contains your windows games. If you have sims on steam use steam. If not take a look at lutris before doing any of the above.
Your experiment ends when you’ve tested all games you want to play.
Now: You cannot use NTFS (windows) drive for games, although you did it in the experiment long extended usage is discouraged.
So you will need to find a way to transfer your games to a different formatted drive. (ext4, btrfs for example)
If you don’t need that advice you will eventually run into frustrating issues.
This is a reminder that it’s okay to enjoy garbage and accept that it is garbage. You don’t need validation from strangers. you don’t have to convince strangers that what you consume is only the most peak content possible.
The whole arch advantage (imo) is that you have a full understanding of what’s in your machine and how it works.
As a beginner you won’t understand and that’s okay, but you should try different things (or don’t and just focus on what works for you) as long as the end result is you doing: pacman -Qe and going “hmm that makes sense”, and imo the undesired result is going “hmm what do these all do, why do I have 2000+ packages”
isn’t there a mint version with plasma?
my unsolicited 2c is to checkout mint
I was expecting “I love fucking” somewhere in there
only the woke lib left believe that money was pocketed! fake news !
I cannot believe we live in a world where this might need it but: /s
le false equivalence totally validates my endorsement for the worst president elected in US history
on the bright side you could literally use their eShop to download games you don’t own if you had a hacked switch
Arch in like 2019 maybe.
I still like Arch, I tried all sorts of distros in VMs, most feel clunky to me.
Tiling manager, GUI file explorer, minimal status bar and I’m set.
For my laptop this is swaywm, swaybar, nautilus.
I also use drun-like programs