Rimworld - colony sim, survival, strategy, crisis management game.
One of the few games where losing is actually fun. There’s a lot of mods available and it can (reasonably) run on a potato.
I only have a few games and two 500GB SSDs have been more than enough for me. My first started to fill up with ~60GB left on storage so I grabbed another.
SSDs are pretty cheap now. If you can afford larger ones, I don’t see why you shouldn’t grab one just in case you find yourself with a big library of games in the future.
I’m pretty sure the BattleNet client (Blizzard client) works. I’ve played Overwatch on Linux before. Not sure about the other launchers but if its a Steam game, generally launchers aren’t a big deal? Anti-cheat is usually the problem (e.g. Valorant).
I use NVIDIA on Linux and it’s really not bad at all. I have zero issues with it and I’m likely to stick with NVIDIA for production reasons (sorry AMD).
Some new games worked surprisingly well on Linux like Elden Ring after they fixed the anticheat issue. I heard it ran better than on Windows because of DXVK or something.
I’m going to suggest Linux Mint as a beginner distro. Maybe Arch/EndeavourOS but only because I think the AUR makes life so much easier.
I think I already am. I never posted on the r/rimworld sub but I’ll see what I can post here. :D