Help me change my windows gaming pc to Linux
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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?
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Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.
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I've played all sims games and all work on linux with wine. Sims 1 is the hardest to get to work because you need a CD crack to get it to run. Sims 2 and newer works great in my experience. I'd recommend using Bottles to install Sims 2. You can install it from CD and play it like normal. Need some tweaks to get widescreen though (but you have that issue on windows as well).
Sims 3 I've played in bottles through the EA app (I own a digital copy there). Worked out of the box (bottles has a way to install the ea store app easily). Sims 4 I've played on steam (using proton).
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Boots right into Steam.
I guess it can... I have been running Bazzite on my main laptop (including gaming) for like 6 months now, and it does not boot right into Steam, it boots to my KDE desktop.
I love it by the way, it's been a great experience.
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Also note that, just because Steam itself says a game is unsupported, does not necessarily mean that's true. Always check ProtonDB. There have been several occasions where "unsupported" games have worked just fine for me (sometimes with minimal tinkering, sometimes none).
Proton is awesome.
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idk gaming on arch works ootb on the 4 computers I've tried on, I've had no issues with it so far except when I tried to try some really experimental things with my gpu drivers. Every game I've tried works fine, and things like Steam and Lutris work just as well as on other distros.
also the archinstall TUI script comes with the installer and does the installation for you.
I'm honestly kinda tired of people making out arch as difficult/brittle without having tried it properly, it probably comes from the community latching onto the overused joke of "i use arch btw", and so wanting to view arch as inferior in some way because they don't want to be associated with the imaginary stereotypical arch user that doesn't actually exist.
It's probably also compounded by beginner arch users wanting to seem superior and above the others, so they present arch as something only them with their superior intellect could ever handle.
arch just works in my experience.
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Well you can choose either one when you select the image from their site.
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Ah ok, guess I forgot about that
