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should i switch to linux?
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yeah you should
you should definitely try it out and see if you like it; try various distros and desktops
the distros id recommend are fedora (simply good), opensuse tubleweed (versatile and unobtrusive), cachyos (designed for gaming), bazzite (fedora-based steamOS clone, designed for gaming), or mint (very easy), and the de id recommend is kde plasma
can keep windows on a separate drive to boot for the games that dont work (and in case u want to switch back)
but if ur pirating, those wont be kernel anticheat games, which are the main offenders
And ntfs does not work with proton so if you keep your Windows games that don't work on a separate drive, they won't work on linux. Make sure all of your games played on the Linux install are downloaded separately onto a Linux file system like ext4
NTFS works with proton as long as you set up your /etc/fstab properly to make sure it's mounted as writeable, but I believe you also need proprietary drivers.. I can't remember now, but up until a couple weeks ago I had my storage drive with all my games mounted in Fedora and it was NTFS from my previous win11 install.
NTFS has gotten better on Linux but it's still not there. It is still highly prone to corruption, especially for a task like proton requiring constant read, write. You might get by for a little bit, but it is highly prone to failure
Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
good to know
im pretty sure that this statement is not true tho.
source: used a ntfs-drive 4 yeara ago before i switched completely. windows fast boot has to be diseabled because otherwise the drive will not be writeable or something. also the disk needs to get mounted correctly in linux.