So I've mentioned before but was waiting on an SSD upgrade, but I'm finally taking the plunge into Linux gaming now. Those of you that are using Linux for gaming, is Garuda the best distro? Should I try something else?
Main concerns are being able to run as much of my games as possible, with the biggest portion of my library being from GoG, the rest with Steam. I'd prefer to not have to spend hours on config files for every game. I do intend to keep a Windows partition to dual-boot, but for me to consider this a success, the vast majority of my single player games and emulation needs to be in Linux. I don't plan to share installs on an NTFS drive so I can play on one or the other or anything, if it's to run in Linux it will be on a proper Linux partition.
My Linux experience and knowledge is well above average, it's been my "productivity" desktop for about 4 years now. I've done some small-scale server administration going back 20 years. Command line doesn't scare me, but I'm pretty bad at getting things to work that I have to compile myself.
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PC in question for me is gaming-specific, so I'm just going to partition this new SSD in half and you're right I probably end up trying a few different things before I settle on something. I needed a new SSD for another project where I really wanted to be able to "sandbox" some things on a totally separate physical drive. So I get a nice big 4TB for the gaming PC and rotate the rest of them downward to less demanding things. The way game size goes, that will be futureproof capacity for at least six months before its all 500GB games.