Hi. I’ve been thinking about trying out Linux for a while now (haven’t used it before). I have 1 PC which I share with my son. I mainly use it to browse the web, listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, Office for work, etc. things like that. Those things have good substitutes from what I’ve read, so not an issue. But my son plays video games like The Sims, Cities Skylines, Stardew Valley, Roblox, Minecraft, Stellaris, Slime Rancher… and from what I’ve seen it’s kind of difficult to game comfortably (stable) on Linux. As for the distro I was considering Ubuntu. Currently on Windows 10 Home. Looking forward to what you guys have to say. All advice welcome. Thanks.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Try Linux in a VM (virtual machine) for a while.

    • Low hassle compared to dual booting,
    • no risk of Microsoft randomly doing something to windows that breaks your Linux install.
    • low/No system downtime if you decide you don’t like one distro or another and want to switch,
    • no loss of game data for your son (I’ve lost so many saves because of games putting them in nonsensical places in windows; why is appdata still the default for minecraft saves!?)
    • Breadhax0r@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 days ago

      I’ve only really messed with VMs running in linux and I know video acceleration can be an issue. Do VMs running on windows have an easier time of setting up GPU passthrough?