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Im currently running a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11 (recently switched from Windows 10).

Long term, I want to move fully to Linux, but heres the catch Im considering running a Linux–Linux dual boot instead basically using Mint alongside something like Fedora. The main purpose of this machine is gaming.

So far, Ive tested around 40 games on Mint. About 37 worked basically out of the box. For two of them, a friend helped me get things running, and the last one only worked after I swtiched to older NVIDIA drivers. Overall pretty happy with the results

Im also planning to move to an AMD GPU in the future, since Ive heard they tend to be less hassle on Linux than NVIDIA cards.

My plan is to give each Linux distro its own 1-terabyte SSD. So the question is: is this overall a bad idea? I like Mint,but I also want to try out other distros for a longer time period, and I really like the flexibility that dual booting gives me.

Would Mint and Fedora be a good pairing for mostly gaming and a bit of browsing, or would you recommend something other than Fedora? Its going good so far on Mint. One of the reasons why Im considering a Linux dualboot is cause I could run Mint with older drivers and Fedora with cutting edge drivers and that way hopefully max performance in my gaming. (That was at least my idea as a novice)

Lets have a bit of a discussion. All and any input is welcome. Yes I was the person that asked about dualbooting windows and linux in the past

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

The main difference between Linux distros is the software repository. You can pretty much install any UI on any distro. You can install the Linux Mint UI on any other distro, it's called Cinnamon DE.

Do not use the Nvidia installer script. The one file that ends in .run or whatever. Chances are that it will brick your install at some point.

READ THIS. It is rules for installing software on a Debian-based system to not break your system. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Nvidia hosts a software repository for Linux drivers. It says that this repository is intended for servers but it also works for desktop computers. I have the nvidia 580 driver installed on Debian. I tried the 590 driver and it was buggy.

https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/debian.html

https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/ubuntu.html

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/

Depending on which Mint you installed, you would add the Debian repository or the Ubuntu repository. I think Mint doesn't even maintain their own full repository, the Mint distro piggybacks on Debian or Ubuntu. look at your /etc/apt/sources.list

Note that, the DontBreakDebian guide says it is bad practice to add third-party repositories. This is a special circumstance.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

LMAO I have the same exact broken Debian mug negative

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