Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that’s a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

  • virku@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So I should do this with at least ny favorite games before wiping my drive and installing a Linux distro?

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 day ago

      Bazzite, a gaming-focused Linux distribution, is designed to work really well with Steam. One drawback is that if you have a game installed in Windows on a Windows drive, you can’t use it from Linux steam. But, there is a way to have games accessible to both operating systems. I haven’t done this, yet, but I’m probably going to try it this week.

      It involves installing a Windows driver that supports BTRFS partitions.

      Here’s the video guide I found.

      • privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        2 hours ago

        An alternative is to bind mount the appcompat folder from your linux steam into the steam library on your windows drive.

        I really hope Bazzite manages to smooth out the last few snags and use cases for dual-boot so that I can recommend it to more non-techy people without needing to explain stuff like this or the unintuitive process of importing installed windows games into Lutris.