>>716214673 (OP)>whats your experience with linux for gamin? It's basically fine, but there are some bad games that insist on not enabling Linux anticheat for some reason or which run highly privileged spyware that doesn't work on Linux.
>what would you recommend?If your computer is old, then you probably won't have too many issues with something like Linux Mint, but that means needing to deal with older packages.
>SteamOSIt's Arch with some sane defaults that is harder to install new software on. You can ultimately just use Arch with archinstall or even just EndeavorOS/CachyOS which both have installers. The problem with Arch is mostly just that it doesn't do some post-setup or post-update steps for you, but if you read the news page, then you will be informed of any steps you need to take after an update, though manual intervention isn't required that often.
>>716216535I would also recommend pcgamingwiki and even if you're not going use Arch, you should still use the Arch wiki, since it guides you through the basics, intermediate knowledge and troubleshooting for using new software.
>>716219987I would still recommend transferring those files to another filesystem that isn't NTFS, since NTFS is garbage that Microsoft insists on just to be difficult.
>>716220659You'll still have to make a new partition for Linux to live on. Get a new SSD, they're not even expensive.