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

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I’d recommend Kubuntu. It’s a version of Ubuntu (very easy to use) that uses a different desktop, namely KDE. In my experience KDE feels a bit more comfortable for windows users and it is NICE. Highly configurable, and very pretty. I recommend Ubuntu variants because support is very good, loads of software providers will have a version of their software for Ubuntu though deb packages or repositories. Software repositories are awesome 😎

    Hardware is mostly supported out of the box, but for video you will want to stick to AMD cards as Nvidia driver quality is so-so… it’s not that Nvidia doesn’t support it, it’s that AMD actively helps with open source driver development in a positive way where nvidia does not, and the drivers they supply themselves are iffy at best. It sometimes works, sometimes. AMD is much better there

    Ubuntu has little to do with Microsoft software.you can run Microsoft apps using “wine” though most but not all apps will work this way. Alternatively, you will find a huge amount of open source alternatives exist for apps. I’ve been Linux only for over 20 years now and I haven’t touched any Microsoft software in years.