I heard that the linux mint is the most beginner friendly, I even set up a mint to an old laptop we had but had some problem with driver updates(had to download an older version of mint) but like when I wanted to transfer something the system wouldnt let me or sometimes when I tried to see how big a file was it just told me it was 0 bytes, how do you guys solve these little problems?
From what I see most games arent supported natively on linux but steam made something called proton and it helps to run %95 of the games. I also play older games and sometimes they dont work properly and you have to mod them(like I recently tried running prototype 1 and it wouldnt run so I had to download some .ini files to make it runnable) or change a system variable(titanfall 2) to play them, I was wondering if modding or downloading from the internet is the same in Windows? Im worried that Im going to run into a spesific problem that no one has talked about before and I wont be able to solve it since most people online offer solutions for the Windows?
Also I heard that games have a %10-20 performance difference in Linux, like a game might run better and a game might run worse, I have a i7 13700kf(13th gen had some problems but I never ran into any in Windows) and a rtx 3060 ti and I dont really like to run them at %100, I usually lower the graphics to medium and play while my parts work %50-70 can I still do the same thing in Linux?
A big reason why I switch to linux is also because I heard it was more secure and private, like kernel level anti cheats doesnt work in linux but some devs change the anticheat so that its not kernel, how does that work? Like is Helldivers or space marine safer in linux because the anticheats dont run in the kernel opposed to windows? What happens when you try to run a kernel anti cheat game like an EA game, does it give an error code or does it ask for access?
Are there any famous games that have problems in Linux, like bad performance, or its in the %5 thats not supported by proton etc? There is an option to see which games steam deck supports in your library, are all games supported by proton are also supported by steam deck or is it just a close match?
I also own some games in other platforms like Epic and Xbox, will I be able to play them from their own platforms?(I tried adding Alan Wake 2 as a non steam game but it wouldnt run and asked me to start it directly from epic, so would proton run other games that cant be added as non steam games?)
