I have Linux mint on my gaming desktop and it’s been great. I’d say that is a good entry point. But i tried a couple distros via live USB before choosing.
I have Linux mint on my gaming desktop and it’s been great. I’d say that is a good entry point. But i tried a couple distros via live USB before choosing.
my steam deck is only about $600 so that’s in the clear.
Oh I see. So the point is to limit ppl bringing in a bunch of stuff to sell and make a big profit. That makes sense.
That’s great to hear! I am still dual booting mint and windows but I am slowly moving towards being fully on mint. I recommend checking out Lutris if you have games on other stores, it also works well with running windows games.
Just dual boot and call it good.
Thanks for your help with my problem. I ultimately decided to retry my method due to a video I found detailing the method and it worked. I updated my OP to include more details if you wanna read what I did. But I did successfully dual boot onto 2 separate drives.
That’s good to know. I would prefer using mint because I’ve been using it in my laptop for a while now and I’m comfortable with it. I really appreciate your help and time answering my questions. I will try dual booting again this weekend.
That’s very generous. I was planning on using windows 10 and Linux mint. But I was doing some research and it seems like bazzite is more focused towards gaming and I wasn’t sure if I should use that instead of mint.
Thanks for the response. That is really helpful. I am going to try again and hopefully it will work better this time.
I appreciate the response and time to test his yourself. I will try again without removing my windows drive. That’s too bad for your laptop tho. I didn’t realize that laptops would ship with raid. Is that common now?
If anyone is curious as to what this type of system looks like, watch psycho pass…
Dang, I was unsure if Linux would mess up my windows drive, that’s why I took it out. But I guess I was wrong. So, if I’m installing Linux on a separate drive, during installation do I need to select (install along side windows) or is that only if it’s on the same drive as windows?
All the tutorials say to remove every drive but the one you are installing on, it’s better to be safe, or so I thought…
And I didn’t know about OS prober. I figured that if the OS’s are on seperate drives I could just enter bios each time and select the drive I want to boot to.
Yes, I physically removed my windows drive from the PC.
I recently tried out my desktop PC for gaming with mint. I removed my windows drive from the PC, installed mint on a seperate drive, tried out several games, shut PC down, put windows drive back in PC, windows won’t boot… Had to nuke both drives and reinstall windows…
It seems that my meaning was misunderstood. The term “temporary memory lapse” sounds like it’s downplaying the severity of the consequences ( to me anyway) and putting it on par with, “Sorry I didn’t call you on your birthday, I totally forgot.” “Oh shoot, I left the ice cream in the car and it melted.”
Killing your child being considered a “temporary lapse” …💀
It’s a little different tho if you already purchased said games that don’t run well or run at all on Linux… Especially, if you have some games that you and your friends play together. “Oh sorry guys I can’t play these games with you anymore, I’m on Linux now…”
I like the 1 comma in that whole paragraph…