@Wetrix Same for me, so I dual boot. I use Linux as primary OS and boot windows when I want to play.

What games do you play?

@ParmuTownley isn't that alot of hassle to reboot every time you want to play a game? I'd be rebooting 30x a day 😂▶️

I play gw2, and heroes of the storm mostly. Sometimes hearthstone. You?

@Wetrix reboots are easy with SSDs.

I play RPGs generally. The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rainbow Six Siege and now waiting for Cyberpunk 2077.

These days I'm playing Watch Dogs 2.

@Wetrix @ParmuTownley I've been big into PC gaming for the last 8 years and the past one has been spent exclusively on Linux. Out of my 120ish game library on Steam, more than a hundred work either almost flawlessly on Linux out of the box or just require a bit of tweaking. I truly recommend at least checking which games in your library do and do not work on protondb.com. I think you can even link an account and have them run through compatible and incompatible games in your entire library.

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @Wetrix yes I've tried proton! It works well but there are some games (especially rainbow six siegie) that don't work. I wouldn't want to change OSs when I switch from Witcher 3 to r6s.

Also my pc is potato so I can't really afford losing fps over OS call conversion.

@ParmuTownley @Wetrix Ah yeah any games with Easy Anti Cheat or any anticheat for that matter are really hit or miss and even if you can get them to work you risk getting banned. That's why a lot of people do GPU pass through to a Windows AME VM so you have the benefit of Windows compatibility AND the benefit of Linux and everything that comes with that. Certainly not for everyone though due to it being a beast in its own right to setup and requiring another GPU. Maybe look into just using AME?

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @ParmuTownley when I finally decide to get another OS (currently on win7) I'm going to Linux.

Hopefully they'll emulate win10? Because sooner or later win7 is going to be dropped so then I'll be forced to change. 😋

@Wetrix @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I recommend Pop!_os Linux. It has good support for gaming as well.

@Wetrix @ParmuTownley Windows 10 has already been dropped, no? I'd recommend Pop_OS! if your main focus is gaming, or Fedora for high security and privacy.

@Wetrix @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @ParmuTownley Windows 7 has reached EOL at the beginning of this year already. If you want to go full Linux, you might actually be fine with gaming but I recommend researching beforehand.
protondb.com and lutris.net are great resources.

@TheDoctor @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat @ParmuTownley I will look into this ty!