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Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

To add to this-

One of the biggest traps for new linux users since forever has been to jump straight into the deep end- tweaking any and every tunable- then when that inevitably all breaks, blaming Linux and moving back.

For anyone reading- You don't need Arch as your first distro, you don't want to on the bleeding edge unless you're prepared to bleed. You don't need things like Golden Eggroll Proton or any external launchers.

Just keep it simple to start- Something like Mint, SuSE or plain Fedora with Steam using the built-in Proton.

Bazzite gets... let say 'advertised' a lot and it's got a lot of good ideas - but if you're coming from Windows I think it's just too much - it's an immutable system* with containers for everything. That's an ocean away from Windows unless you were comfortable with Sandboxie beforehand (if you were, dive right in)

*\the system is read only, you cannot change anything in the default image, ie. imagine if you were never allowed to add files to c:\windows

Edit: For the newbs, an ancient meme- https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

I know its not important, but it is actually Glorious Eggroll.