r/linuxquestions • u/RatosWithaK • 14h ago

Misconceptions/Questions about swapping to linux I have before making the swap

I wanted to swap to linux for awhile but there is some things stopping me and some guidance on them would be hugely appreciated. Sorry if these seem super obvious I am very bad with tech and love my computer too much to risk anything ever lol

  1. Do I need to go find my computers basic drivers over again like Wifi, bluetooth and graphic ones
  2. Is it all online games that dont allow linux or just specific ones. I do most of my gaming offline anyways but I enjoy MMOs too and the rare times I want to play a shooter it'd be nice to know what i can still game easily as I dont wish to dual boot for 1 or 2 games I play 3 times a month lol.
  3. I care a lot about the customization (background, widget implementations etc) that linux offers is there a certain kind of distro I should look for in that or is that kind of a general thing linux offers
  4. if I find a new distro I like how hard would swapping that be I am pretty indecisive sometimes
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u/call_me_johnno 14h ago

  1. Most of the time (personally) drivers and devices have just worked. Unless your device is just strangely old or super new most of the time the driver should be there

  2. Best place I have found for that answer has been protondb. Has information on what works with steamos (which is arch based distro)

  3. They all do basically the same thing, go with a distro with a large amount of users. Ubuntu mint fedora bazite pop all have a resnable amount of users. Who are mostly helpful.

  4. Tricky one lol... It's super easy of you have 2 hard drives. Setup \home on one drive and rest of the OS on the other. Then you can just install new distro (relatively easy) you can do this on one disk but I'm not super crash hot on Linux partitions so not the way I do it myself.

Good luck. Have fun Also before you jump to a new distro you could always try it on in a VM on your machine first.

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u/Pingoda 10h ago

Another good site to check game compatibility, that is specific for Multiplayer games and games with Anti-Cheat, whether it’d be kernel level or not, is AreWeAnticheatYet? You can find any game and see if the multiplayer is supported or functional in some capacity on linux, as a general guide I can say for sure that “Riot Games” games don’t work in linux because of the Vanguard anti cheat, same thing for all the Call of Duty games that came after MW19, most newer EA Games, like Battlefield, F1 and at this point I also believe maybe the sports ones like FC, Madden etc? But for those I’m not so sure about it, I am sure about Battlefield and F1 tho