Looks good enough for me. Even simply a browser + a single board computer + any "standard" Linux installation can be good enough as is for gaming/"browser stuff" if you don't mind limiting your gaming collection to a handful few of... 200(?) that changes every now and then by your gaming overlords. And yes, I'm talking about XCloud.
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I'll suggest yet another OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's a rolling release. I've had zero problems with it, and I've been using it on work and personal machines for about a year (migrating away from Ubuntu after 15+ years). A weekly zypper dist-update keeps it pretty much bleeding-edge, and I've never had issues with it. If an upgrade does bork something, you can use snapper to roll back (it's a btrfs based snapshot tool).
Whatever you choose, good luck with it.
Garuda Linux and then VanillaOS when Orchid is out and you're a little more familiar with the system. :)
Was going to suggest Garuda.
It's a game centric OS and it (mostly) works out of the box.
Gotta look into VanillaOS, thanks for the recommendation.
depending on your needs try WSL2 instead of dual booting. I've been linux or macos for quite a while in daily work as a programmer and kinda dig on WSL2 in Windows, particularly Win11 with the improved terminal. add Docker in the mix and there's nothing you can't do in that kind of environment that you'd be looking to do in a dedicated Linux boot...again dependin on what youre doing i guess.
Largely yes, but I have found WSL2 can kinda trip over itself a little bit when it tries to do serial stuff, sometimes.
USB device access and whatnot kind of works, but it can be a bit sketch.
Can’t have WSL without Windows Pro.
Would rather avoid spending $100 just to enable virtual machines.
WSL is available on Windows Home.
You're thinking about HyperV, not the "Virtual Machine Platform", the former require Pro+, and the latter is available on all (needs to be enabled), and is what enabled WSL, Docker, VirtualBox in HyperV.
Bad naming IMO and misused by many vendors.
You wont know for sure until you try. the main sticking point for gaming on linux is anti-cheat, so if you play a lot of games with that then you may run into some trouble. otherwise ProtonDB is your friend. Most games these days are pretty easy to get up and running.
A lot of AI tools are developed on linux anyway so you shouldn't encounter too many problems there.
Browsers are no problem at all. I recommend Firefox
libreoffice is also a good browser and you can brag that you have a light blue browser icon that no one else has
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