Help me change my windows gaming pc to Linux
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I've been using Bazzite for a good while. It just turns your PC into a fancy console. Boots right into Steam. Everything can be done with a controller. If you can use a console, you can use Bazzite.
Of course Chimera and Nobara are very similar in that way. Bazzite is just the new hotness.
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Windows 10 EOL doesn't mean it will stop working. If sims has trouble just use win.
"This, just continue win 10 (or win11 even though they said not run blah blah). I have my whole house with about 4 PC/server all running Debian but I still keep one gaming PC run windows.
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Happy to hear a succes story and Sims 3 is the least interesting of the bunch. Sims 2 and 4 are most important for her.
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I hate how good bazzite is at just being a game console. But then there’s lots of little Fedora ublue things in there that are useful. Like the fact that it has podman by default makes running silly things like ollama so easy.
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As someone that aggressively takes advantage of the prime gaming giveaways, heroic launcher has been nearly perfect for all the random games that I’ve received on epic/amazon/gog.
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Protondb will be your best friend here. If I were you I'd look up the games you want to play on there and check peoples comments on how they got them running. Almost everything out of box using steams proton tools but often it needs tweaking. Depending on how much you want to play a game it might not be worth the trouble to setup. For instance I stay away from every live service game now. You should also check out the os people are using on protondb to make sure it works for you I use arch (btw) so I won't take instructions from a Debian setup if I can find one with a similar os.
Worth pursuing and you sound experienced enough to get it set up. Idk about modding though that can be painful to get setup BC of how wine/proton work.
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You should just test run it from a bootable usb.
Install steam.
Mount your NTFS drive which contains your windows games.
If you have sims on steam use steam.
If not take a look at lutris before doing any of the above.Your experiment ends when you've tested all games you want to play.
Now: You cannot use NTFS (windows) drive for games, although you did it in the experiment long extended usage is discouraged.
So you will need to find a way to transfer your games to a different formatted drive. (ext4, btrfs for example)
If you don't need that advice you will eventually run into frustrating issues.
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Mentioned elsewhere in the thread I think but not in a direct reply so making sure you see it, Lutris has the game specific scripts but also ones to set up environments for Origin/EA App. I've used those before with Sims 4 with both several expansion packs and some custom content.
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Awesome. I'll give it a go with lutris
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+1 for Bazzite. Atomic distro + NVDI drivers included
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Not helpful, but oops, I had accidentally disliked this post
I removed the dislike:)
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I agree. If you're a noob, and want the smoothest path, then Bazzite is the way.
I however, started on Ubuntu originally and you will have to learn the apt repos and install all this on your own. I'm now on Arch which makes you learn more the inner workings of Linux.
So if you want to progress, be sure to consider all the other distros out there too.
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I actually don't like this advice for this particular use case. The live session is gonna be sluggish because of the USB bottleneck which will make it look like the games run a lot worse than they would with a proper install.
Especially since this person also is already Linux proficient, I would say just jump into a dual boot setup or wipe the windows partition momentarily. Sure, it's gonna take a little longer and it's a bit tedious to have to reinstall windows if you change your mind but I'd prefer a bit tedium over a poor benchmark
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if you are comfortable enough with cli and Linux you should try arch for the desktop, it'll be probably easier in the long run because games are fussy and you can refer to the wiki and use the AUR
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I specifically said this advice because dual booting windows with Linux is a terrible idea.
Although you are right, if you USB read/write is slow it will be a sluggish experience.
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Long term, I agree. To test for 3 hours, and then decide which partition to nuke and which to keep? For this particular use case I'd prefer it
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Bazzite comes with Distrobox pre-installed, so you can literally try every other distro with it lol
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I've found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it's gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I'd probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie
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cachyos is easiest way to arch, I found the install to be easier than bazzite, its all graphical, very straightforward, just works
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they just said they're proficient with linux in their post, did you read it?
