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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If the survey hit for me 1 week from now I'd be on Linux, I'm literally setting my system up properly next Saturday

[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You can dual boot Linux to try it out.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That comes with its own risks because Windows has been known to destroy dual boot setups when doing updates. Not always, but it can happen and it's burnt people.

Dual booting also makes it harder when you decide to get rid of windows fully, because you might yourself accidentally screw your bootloader as part of removing windows.

The option I would personally recommend if you are unsure is to disconnect your windows hard drive, keep it safe, and install Linux on a separate drive. Then you can always drive swap back if you need and you know everything is safe.

You can even put the windows drive back in after installing Linux, and then just use your BIOS boot drive selector to switch where you are booting from. Each drive has it's own boot record in that case, so there's less risk of any accidents.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

Disconnecting is good advice. What worked for me after windowa scrubbed the EFI boot was installing Linux and assigning its own EFI partition, most distros probe foreign OS so your separate Linux partition gets a chainloader entry to the windows EFI boot. You set BIOS to use Linux boot, Windows gets a handoff if you choose it in the Grub Menu and doesn't know about the other EFI partition. Kept my dual install save.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

My main gaming rig is my last system not running Linux right now, I've been migrating my stuff over on my other systems for a couple months now (I keep getting distracted lol)

But not that I've got alts for the software I normally use on my main rig it's finally time, 2 months ahead of schedule.