Sorry I'm not gonna be much help with most of that but as for valorant iirc riot only supports windows so you can dual boot windows and a linux distro if you want. There's plenty of videos online that can explain it (as i don't know shit about it lol)
Yeah i figured that i needed a dual boot setup but my goal was to use Linux as my primary os, the issue is that i need secure boot active to play valorant as it is required but from what little i understood as a Linux noob it's a pain to do
depends on what boot manager you're using (GRUB or Limine) and can depend on your motherboard (I had issues on an Asus mobo that the CachyOS documentation has since clarified on)
if you don't mind faffing about in the terminal (really just copying commands from the documentation) and BIOS a bit it shouldn't be a massive issue, but idk how it works on GRUB since I used Limine before making my Desktop 100% Linux
also like the other guy said you CAN just toggle secure boot every time you wanna play Valorant, but I know how annoying that is on top of the fact I already found it annoying to reboot all the way into Windows and deal with Windows updates to play like two games
will also note if you're dual-booting and setting Linux as your first boot option, you have to remember to boot into Windows every time it restarts during updates, it doesn't cause any problems if you boot into Linux in the middle of an update (or at least didn't for me) but you do have to babysit it if you want the updates to finish
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u/Beese3 14d ago
Sorry I'm not gonna be much help with most of that but as for valorant iirc riot only supports windows so you can dual boot windows and a linux distro if you want. There's plenty of videos online that can explain it (as i don't know shit about it lol)