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Ask HN: Best distro for me? tired of windows10 toxic abusive interface

6 points by anon115 ↗ HN
tired of windows 10 abusive toxic interface is their a linux distro that treats me like a queen and lets me play gta v/valorant/overwatch 2 and code (vs code) sculpt blender and run a virtual machine for programs built for macos or windows only ::::

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Cilvic
As a long time windows guy, I'm quite happy with fedora (wayland gnome) since last year. Valorant won't run on any linux AFAIK because of vanguard anticheat.
anon115
will a virtual machine correct that? :DDD?????
Cilvic
no
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talldayo
Riot Games doesn't commit to Linux support anymore. There used to be ways to play League of Legends on Linux, but that's broken now. The other big broken titles (currently) are Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2 and PUBG: https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=playerCount

That being said, pretty much everything else works fine. Running GTA V Online, Overwatch 2, and the majority of popular Steam games should be as easy as clicking "Play". Do your research before committing to the switch, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the game compatibility these days.

margorczynski
As for game support you would need to check on proton/wine about how well it works.

In general a good all-around distro would be Mint, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS or Fedora (if you like more bleeding edge but more unstable).

sinuhe69
Windows 7 is also an alternative. If you patch then and run browsers sandboxed, you should be fine.
JojoFatsani
Dual boot Linux for productivity and Wintendo for gaming
anon115
lmao im stealing that i shall consider it
LopovJack
Linux Mint is a king of consistency. At the top 5 for many years. Best first distro imo.

Tried many but always went back to it.