Linux or Windows for gaming/programming

[Shailesh Vats]

10 hours ago, goatedpenguin said:

If you have an AMD gpu and not an nvidia gpu(which is better for linux cuz of drivers etc.) and want to program and game I would recommend using Garuda Linux, its arch based(not always the best thing) but you have access to tons of packages and the blackarch repo for pentesting if you do those type of things and not to mention Garuda linux has an awsome theme with all the gaming apps for linux preinstalled. Only downside would be that you would not be able to play games like valorant and call of duty due to their kernel level anticheats specific to windows only. Generally if games use the vanguard or ricochet anticheat then consider it to be unplayable on Linux.  IMO I would use WSL and you get the best of both worlds. Old singer player titles will generally have better compatibility and performance on Linux and on AMD GPUs which might be another factor for you. Btw if you want a gui for wsl then you can just set up an RDP which is pretty simple

whats wsl and rdp?

[ewitte]

You can get a lot of things to run in Linux these days but there is still a good amount that will either not run or run like poo.

[Shailesh Vats]

On 11/1/2023 at 5:33 PM, Eigenvektor said:

Because Windows isn't "cooperative". It doesn't care there's another OS already on there. Linux will see that you have Windows installed, offer to install Grub to take care of switching between operating system and can even resize the Windows partition to make room for itself. Which doesn't matter that much if you install on separate disks and use the BIOS to switch instead.

can i do one thing , have a linux os in my 1st nvme and after some time buy another one for windows

[Shailesh Vats]

11 minutes ago, ewitte said:

You can get a lot of things to run in Linux these days but there is still a good amount that will either not run or run like poo.

i guess i will have linux as my main os in my potato laptop for college stuff and windows in my pc with linux as duel boot system

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5 hours ago, Shailesh Vats said:

whats wsl and rdp?

Windows subsystem for linux and remote deskop protocol. WSL basically allows you to run linux distros like ubuntu or kali linux seamlessly and the added benefit of that is you can share files and folders between wsl and the windows not to mention that if you break wsl you can just backup your files and transfer it to a new wsl installation in a nutshell its immutable in a way and there is no need to dualboot.