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smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Start with Linux Mint. It should be a very pleasant and straightforward experience right out of the box, and is just in general very beginner friendly. I recommend to create a live USB (basically, download the ISO from the Mint website, then use something like Balena Etcher to put it on a USB stick). You can then boot off that stick, and try Mint out to your heart’s content, without risking your Windows install or data at all.

Can I ask, whatbare the programs you wager you’ll have to emulate through wine?

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Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m saving this so I can look at it again this weekend.

I’m not one for making bets unless I know something that I suspect someone else doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the games I have on steam need wine to run on Linux. My understanding is that wine is a compatibility layer, hence the name, correct?

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- smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah, good news in regards to gaming, esp. Steam gaming!
  
  Steam invested quite a bit of energy into “Proton”, essentially a new kind of compatibility layer. If you remember tinkering around with wine and winetricks from years ago, that’s basically gone nowadays.
  
  For most games, just go into the Steam settings for that game, and under “Compatibility”, check the box.
  
  Then click download, and play. That’s it for most games 🎉
  
  Also check out protondb.com - it’s basically a community-sourced database cataloging how well Steam games work on Linux.
  
  Good luck on your Linux journey, and feel free to ask questions if something comes up! :)
  
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  - 5too@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And if you’ve been letting Steam upload your save data, you should find that your save files for most games will still be available in Linux! Mileage will vary per game of course, but jumping between OSes has been pretty seamless for me!
    
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    dditty@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I got a stream deck last fall and so far the only game I’ve run into that doesn’t work with my windows cloud save is Dark Souls 2
    
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