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:
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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.
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I read some days ago that ubuntu is being used by Microsoft, does that mean it is more compatible with their other applications?
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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?
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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
Dual booting is a headache you don’t need. If you really want to keep windows around, install it as a virtual machine inside whatever distro you choose. Ubuntu is easy, well documented, and widely supported. Since you probably already have windows installed, you can also try a few different distros out by running them in virtual machine inside windows first to figure out what you like.
There is a practical reason for dual booting: you have OEM Windows, and you don’t want to pay for a license. I do this just because I barely use Windows anyway.