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[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's better to try sooner. Dual booting as you figure things out like software replacement and what distro

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, i already installed a PoP OS in dual boot and tried things out.

I will test games on it in the next months to prepare for Windows deletion. I just hope a game I really like won't go out not working decently on Linux or I'm afraid I will lose my momentum/motivation.

At the very least I intend to only boot windows for those game that really don't work on Linux.

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah i went down the same path about a year ago and ended up forgetting i even had a dual boot of windows. I ended up just wiping the windows drive and reinstalled popos as a raid0 across both drives for that little extra speed bump for loading.

I don't really play multi-player games but I haven't come across anything not working from steam. The only issue I had was openRGB was detected by the insurgency sand storm anti cheat so I disabled it from launching on boot so my PC leds are just on default most of the time