So I am hoping to finally get around to installing Linux for the first time. Ideally I would like to eventually replace my win10 installation with it, but for now I plan on dual booting until I am comfortable enough on Linux. This leads me to a couple questions:

  • which one is best suited for gaming? I do a couple other things as well but I would expect that any OS could deal with those. I know vaguely about proton / the steam deck improvements that trickled down, but don’t know if and how that affects different Linux versions.

  • I read some days ago that ubuntu is being used by Microsoft, does that mean it is more compatible with their other applications?

  • I also read that amd is better suited to linux because nvidia refuses to support it, which would be a happy coincidence for me because I just recently built a fully amd computer, is that actually true?

  • And lastly, provided there is even a definitive answer to my first question, where should I look to get started? I have never dealt with Linux before but would consider myself reasonably tech / computer savvy.

Thank you

  • intelati@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Speaking on Endeavour, I’d consider it an Intermediate class distro…

    It’s Arch, but much more GUI based as far as I can tell. I’m basically using it to “learn” the CLI. I feel like you can remove a few packages and it’d be “arch”.

    There’s a part of me that wants to quit windows full turkey… It’s so easy to want to switch to the familiar… (which is basically just needs a reboot)