As everyone know, Windows 10 support is ending very soon, and here i am having a very old hardware that couldn’t support win11. So my choice now is either:

1)keep using it and risk security breach

2)upgrade hardware to something that support TPM 2.0 and upgrade to win11(costly)

3)switch to Linux and game using Proton

Since i mostly use this machine to watch movies, youtube, and gaming, and most of my game is on Steam anyway(some free games from Epic, and two from Window store), i’m wondering if it’s better to just switch to linux from now on and wanted to know what’s the compatibility of the game of late. Note that eventually i will have to upgrade my machine anyway, it barely play any new game released this few years.

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    As others have mentioned, it’s not really anything I even think about any more. The other day I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary, installed it and was playing it before I even thought that I should have checked for compatibility first.

    The biggest question is deciding which OS you want to install… I went with Nobara because it already had all of the dependencies needed for Steam, but it is not the only distro that comes ‘Steam ready’.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I heard Mint is closest to the window experience, not sure about steam ready though, i didn’t know that is a thing i need to watch out for. i think i might try that first

      • andrewta@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I use mint with steam. No real issues at this point.

        If you can. Get an external solid state drive and install Linus there to figure out any issues then if you screw up, you still have windows 10 as back up until you figure out all the issues. Then when you are ready wipe windows and install Linux that way