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[Question] to Linux from Windows as a daily driver (lemmy.ml)

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My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it.

My main needs are gaming, local AI (stable diffusion and oobabooga), and browser stuff.

I have experience with Mint (recently) and Ubuntu (long ago). Any problems with my plan? Will my OS choice meet my needs?

Thanks!

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[–] Czele 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did just that. As far as I remember at the start I had the urge to use Windows since I got addicted to its interface and functioning after those 15+ years, but building my habit into booting linux (I recommend to set linux to boot by default) made my Windows dependence absolute.

Gaming on linux with Steam is smooth (You need to enable to use proton on all non native games and You are good to go). You can check ProtonDB to see how Your games perform. The only problem is that many online titles with anticheat do not work (mostly due to developers refusing to enable an option to allow proton to run them)

I do not do AI, but at least I know that there's a simple gnome program 'Imaginer' which lets You use stable diffusion and openai so definitely check if that would satisfy Your needs.

You can go Mint, a lot of people recommend it. Trust me as a Fedora fanboy.

If You have an nvidia card (which by steam's statistics I have ~80% chance to say that You have) You should install proprietary drivers after the OS installation process (Unless Mint offers to do it when installing os, but i do not know that).

If You have more questions please do ask them, I will be more than happy to help!