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this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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Consider making another post after everything has been done in which you note down your expectations, experiences etc.
I never got around to writing it, but I'll share a couple of things shortly.
I tried two gaming profiled systems: bazzite and manjaro. The systems in themselves worked great and the gaming was good. But I had some other systems I needed for work that I just couldn't get to run smoothly. I think the biggest problem was Dropbox. One of the systems used a file management protocol or whatever it's called that Dropbox didn't work with at all. I ended up installing Ubuntu and it worked pretty well out of the box there. And the gaming is actually working great.
when I installed Ubuntu, I also installed some kind of community built steam app. Extremely buggy. I replaced it with the official steam app and now it's extremely smooth. Very little difference to gaming on windows except of course that everything in the system and ui is a little bit quicker, including the games.
more games work on Ubuntu than are marked as Linux compatible by steam. I've tested a lot of games I already own and they usually work.
the only thing I haven't been able to get running is my (Swedish) book keeping system. I think I just need to get more comfortable with wine and I'll probably get it working. We'll see. I keep a small windows partition specifically for book keeping.