It’s time once again to bang my head against the wall of Linux gaming to see if I can make the switch from Windows. What’s the flavor of the month for gaming distros for a Windows native that’s not a moron but also wants something that just works once its set up?
Bonus points if you can point me at resources for how to put Linux on my Windows box as a dual boot without breaking my Windows installation.
EDIT - Tried Mint and Nobara and neither could figure out how to dual boot with Windows on a machine with two physical drives. I’m sure if I had a CS degree I could figure it out in short order but a little googling and messing around trying different things didn’t work so I think I’m done. Maybe next time, Linux.
Imo any distro basically just works the same, I’ve never tried one of the “gaming” distros, but installing steam, proton and lutris is so straightforward that any distro will do imo. From there on it’s just a matter of going onto protondb and figuring out tweaks for your games.
As for dual boot I highly recommend separate drives, windows likes to overwrite grub with every update if located on the same drive. From there on just do a basic Linux install and configure your bootloader to look for other bootable oses
If you’re installing 2 operating systems, always install windows first. It doesn’t play well with other OSs, and will usually overwrite the bootloader.
If you’re installing windows on a separate drive, unplug all the other drivers for the install. I’ve had windows overwrite the bootloader on all 3 drives at the same time.
Imo any distro basically just works the same, I’ve never tried one of the “gaming” distros, but installing steam, proton and lutris is so straightforward that any distro will do imo. From there on it’s just a matter of going onto protondb and figuring out tweaks for your games.
As for dual boot I highly recommend separate drives, windows likes to overwrite grub with every update if located on the same drive. From there on just do a basic Linux install and configure your bootloader to look for other bootable oses
If you’re installing 2 operating systems, always install windows first. It doesn’t play well with other OSs, and will usually overwrite the bootloader.
If you’re installing windows on a separate drive, unplug all the other drivers for the install. I’ve had windows overwrite the bootloader on all 3 drives at the same time.