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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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VM suggestion for gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Welp, it's finally happened. Windows 10 has become so bloated, slow, and spooky that I finally have decided to bite the bullet and set up a VM on my linux Mint partition. Do you have any suggestions for a virtual machine? My PC is a relatively basic mid-range business laptop, 8gb of ram, no GPU, only a few years old. I'm a little concerned about performance impact, as I've heard that VMs take more system resources than the OS running natively. Any recommendations of software/configurations that would work best for me?

EDIT for clarity: The games i intend to run are, largely, older non-steam games. i obviously just use proton for all my steam games, but some weird older ones don't have a steam release/i don't have the steam version.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To address your edit, you can actually add non-Steam games to Steam. I'll provide a link that describes the process, but you may have mixed results (though you may be surprised how many of them "just work"):

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2019/07/a-simple-guide-to-steam-play-valves-technology-for-playing-windows-games-on-linux/

You'll find instructions in the section labelled "Can Steam Play be used for games not on Steam?". I believe these instructions still work, even though they're a few years old. If not, then there's always the option to use Lutris or Glorious Eggroll, which I recommend looking into yourself if this solution doesn't work (Lutris should be pretty easy to set up, so I recommend trying that first as I've had a good experience with it).