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Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).

Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux Mint Cinnamon was is my first Linux distro coming away from Win10, and I have no issues with it. Mint uses Ubuntu as its codebase, so it's essentially Ubuntu with a different desktop presentation/look/feel.

[–] Pumasuedeblue@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Agreed. Mint is a very 'new Linux user' friendly distro, and has everything you really need. I've got some recent converts from Windows and even the gamers I've set up are happy with it.