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I've kinda been putting off switching to Linux until the steam OS goes to desktops more officially, since it's pretty close to just being used as a gaming rig, but I'm running out of patience. I had Ubuntu for a while like 15 years ago.
How are the drivers for a 1060 GPU?
Bazzite has been out of the box solid as my 2nd Linux attempt. Except for one little issue with refresh rates above 120 on the desktop. It has both handheld and desktop builds, comes with steam installed, GNOME or Plasma interface.
My 1080ti didn't have any driver issues as far as I can tell.
Thanks. I was planning on just going to Mint, but I may go for Bazzite instead by the sounds of it.
I would prefer to have it removed now but as an alternative you can just install games and stuff on it while windows still lives on it.
Theoretically you can boot proton games from both sides. I just have never needed to do so.
It’s a pain. Windows can’t read ext4 and NTFS does not play well with Proton gaming. You could use exfat as a common filesystem. My solution before I gave up duel booting was to put games on my NAS and access them via NFS. It was a bit slow even on a 2.5gb network, but very playable.
I'm unfortunately chained to my Windows install - a handful of Windows-only games I play with friends, and solidworks (I use a VM for it here and there but it's usually easier to just use Windows). When I first jumped to Linux, though, I accidentally broke my Windows install, so I was forced to get used to it for the first month or so.
Have you checked out winapps? https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/
I think it came up during my initial search a year or so ago. For whatever reason I decided it wasn't the way to go. I know solidworks supposedly has lots of issues running through programs like wine and proton. The games I play are only Windows-only due to things like anti-cheat bullshit.