To answer the title of this post... Yes, yes it is.
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I am in doubt about running Linux on my gaming system. As I need it to be as close to 100% compatible as possible for running games. Because I still have a lot of games on Steam that I haven't finished. So I don't want to lose the ability to play some of them.
One option if you still want to use both, is a Linux laptop. You could use that as your daily driver and then use Moonlight/Sunshine to stream from your gaming rig to laptop. Use a loopback HDMI plug on the rig and you largely have what amounts to a gaming server on your network.
Average added latency on my setup is 4ms so this works very well. I stream games at 120FPS at 1080p. Then when I'm done playing, I close the window. No dual booting annoyance and fully functional Windows 10.
To provide a different perspective to everyone else, I would say that it's not the right time if you want everything to "just work".
I tried out Ubuntu 22.04 just a couple of months ago, and only one game of the several I tried "just worked". Everything else either didn't work at all, or required hours of searching and troubleshooting and problem solving, with mixed success. And I'm not a technophobe, I'm a software developer with experience in system support.
People keep saying there's lots of guides out there for most things, and that's true. But that doesn't necessarily mean the guide will work for you. I tried multiple "guides" to get my games working and most of them didn't help. Either they were too old, or there was a step that I couldn't complete, or I completed the guide and there was an error that isn't mentioned in the guide. Or any number of other problems.
Regardless of what people say, it may not be as simple as "switch to Proton and install Lutris". In the end I just got frustrated with having to work so hard to get my own computer to do the things I wanted it to do, and so I reverted back to Windows and had all my software working as expected within a couple of hours.
@Anomandaris @mouse Interesting. For me it just was "enable proton for all titles", "enable proton for the game", "launch" and "play". That's it. But I don't know what you had tried to play🎮🫤
@Anomandaris @mouse My experience has largely been that games Just Work if you stick with Steam, but that running games from other sources is a lot more hit-or-miss. Lutris and Heroic are great but can be really fiddly.
Dual booting is a great way to start. I did it for years. Linux gaming eventually got good enough that I don't need to dual boot anymore, but YMMV; your use case may be different.
(I still keep a Windows machine around for TurboTax and Comic Collector Pro, but not for games.)
Thank you for the experience that you had. That's why I will use my spare drive to test it, this will allow me to experiment with it and see how it performs.
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Imo the only thing better about windows is its support for gaming. But Linux has been getting better and better about that.
I'd bet that Linux will be almost completely caught up when support ends for Windows 10 in two years. That's probably when I will make the switch for my gaming PC.
You should start sooner so you'll be well prepared when support actually ends and that Win 11 abomination will be forced...
I'm not sure what preparing I would need that would require more than like a week. I'm already extremely comfortable with Linux. I used it on my work laptop for years before moving to a company that requires Windows.
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Astrologically speaking? Probably not, no. I'd consider waiting until the time is better.
My astrology sign is a Ford Taurus, is it a good time for me?
You're looking better than you've looked in years. All signs point to yes. Unfortunately, you're still a Ford Taurus.
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