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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use Bazzite. It is a distro dedicated to gaming and user friendly for beginners. It still has some limitations but it is better compared to others when it comes to gaming. You don't really require more tweaking unlike other distros to make games work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the advice I came here looking for. I'm intimidated by the switch and have no time, but if there's a distro that's easy to get going, I'm there for it. I'll check it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I just wasn't sure fedora based (bazzite) would be as easy to troubleshoot as mint (Debian based) since arguably debian/Ubuntu are the most popular distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Another distro that's easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.

Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you're good to go.

As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.

Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.