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Linux beginner (and gamer) here. Im currently on Mint and Windows 11 (hexbear.net)

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Im currently running a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11 (recently switched from Windows 10).

Long term, I want to move fully to Linux, but heres the catch Im considering running a Linux–Linux dual boot instead basically using Mint alongside something like Fedora. The main purpose of this machine is gaming.

So far, Ive tested around 40 games on Mint. About 37 worked basically out of the box. For two of them, a friend helped me get things running, and the last one only worked after I swtiched to older NVIDIA drivers. Overall pretty happy with the results

Im also planning to move to an AMD GPU in the future, since Ive heard they tend to be less hassle on Linux than NVIDIA cards.

My plan is to give each Linux distro its own 1-terabyte SSD. So the question is: is this overall a bad idea? I like Mint,but I also want to try out other distros for a longer time period, and I really like the flexibility that dual booting gives me.

Would Mint and Fedora be a good pairing for mostly gaming and a bit of browsing, or would you recommend something other than Fedora? Its going good so far on Mint. One of the reasons why Im considering a Linux dualboot is cause I could run Mint with older drivers and Fedora with cutting edge drivers and that way hopefully max performance in my gaming. (That was at least my idea as a novice)

Lets have a bit of a discussion. All and any input is welcome. Yes I was the person that asked about dualbooting windows and linux in the past

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[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

You really can't go wrong with any linux distro. They all basically work the same, with some minor differences in their respective package managers. Try several and see how they feel for you. One option is to run some of these distros inside a VM to quickly try several flavors side by side, but still keep your familiar Mint environment and web browser in case you need it. Most VM software lets you save the state (much like retro game emulators) even during the installation, allowing you to experiment with different configurations in a non-destructive way.