If you are running windows non home edition enable the Hyper-V features and fire up a VM.
I was think about WSL but that may not work in this case.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Shit. What if you are running the home edition? I've been thinking about switching as well, but I don't have a background in coding and I'd have to run a dedicated ssd with windows just for my work programs (design related) or migrate to FOSS completely.
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One of my buds is a programmer and runs linux and windows on his machine. At this point he's pretty adroit at fixing any issues on linux, but he has faced limitations before.
Regarding work, being on linux apparently was a big plus when he got hired, and works exclusively on linux due to its stability.
Regarding gaming, many games we play apparently run better on linux (inc. ArmA Reforger and some others, I forget), but some will just not run at all (anything with a kernel anticheat), and his mic sounds like utter shit on discord due to missing drivers or something.
I do remember there was a site where you could check how well a game ran on linux, but I forget. You might be able to check if the games you got run on steam deck, since they are linux based.
I do remember there was a site where you could check how well a game ran on linux
You probably remembering protondb.com. You can check how good your games run your games with proton (valve's windows compatibel layer based on wine and dxvk). You can use proton with any games also outside of steam. For example with heroic launcher with epic and gog games.
Yeah this is the one.
I had mic quality issues in discord for a while and it turned out it was discord's echo/noise cancelation misbehaving. Turned it off and started using https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch instead. It's actually way better at noise cancelation anyway.
Not that that's necessarily what's happening with your friend but thought I'd throw it out in case it is
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I do remember there was a site where you could check how well a game ran on linux
Is this the one? WineHQ AppDB
Might've been, but I don't remember it being so red. I'm on mobile right now though, and my PC browser loads everything in dark mode, maybe the colors were affected.
In any case, the site my buddy showed me ranked games according to performance just like that one so that one would still be useful.
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I have a very similar use case to you, and when I built my PC I just never installed Windows on it. Linux is a great development environment (imo strictly superior to Windows but ymmv), and gaming is almost flawless with Proton. Only problems with that has been from the immature RX 9070 XT drivers, so not too bad.
Depending on what you program with Iβd highly recommend exclusively using a Linux VM for it. Then you can fully switch once youβre comfortable working out the kinks.
You can always do a dual boot. I've had a dual boot Linux Mint and Win 11 for maybe 18 months and I'm finally getting around to purging Windows out for good. The Mint installer sets it all up shockingly easily. I ended up so rarely using Windows that at this point I would rather have the space back.
Admittedly, I do very little coding or gaming, so YMMV, but I'm also basically trashing PS Elements and MS Office Home because I know GIMP and LibreOffice do the job anyway. It was that $250 that kept me holding on for this long.
warning: Mint is not a great choice for gaming, basically unusable out of the box and no better after following tutorials for optimization. Not to mention no Wayland support.
PopOS worked fine out of the box. Bazzite also works great.
You should explain that to the few Steam games I have that work just fine on Mint, right out of the box.
It's hit or miss and depends on the game, and OP didn't really give us much detail. There's just no absolutes is ultimately the lesson to learn, which is why a dual boot option might suit them best.