Hi. I’ve been using Linux for decades on my work machines, but most of my knowledge is pretty rusty. However for gaming I’ve always used a Windows machine. I’m thinking of getting rid of microsoft entirely, since I’ve been hearing such good things about steam & proton lately.
I was going to just install Mint on my gaming computer, but since there are a ton of experts here, I figured I should check in to see if there is any reason not to use Mint for this? And if there is any other considerations or setup I should be aware of to keep my games running well?
The AMD cards have better performance with the in-tree driver than Nvidia does, so it is just a little bit easier with an AMD card. But it’s really not that hard with Nvidia, so you do you.
Ext4 is perfectly fine for most uses, although some distros will default to btrfs. Whatever the default are in the distro you use are going to work fine