So I was thinking of switching my desktop to linux. I have been running fedora on my laptop for 3 years and I really like it. My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs) and can I use VMs in any of the gaming oriented ones (mostly because I don't wanna keep dual booting).
Edit: I have gone with Bazzite for now and it seems to be working fine. Some games don't rrally work acceptably (I expected that) so I will keep dual booting for a while.
If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.
I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux.
NVIDIA hardware is developed to run on Linux
not by default. Your mileage may vary but I've had little to no trouble with my setup.
Your post doesn't ask that.
The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.
I disagree.
They're asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them. Not whether they should switch based on usability. Having to ask if your specs can run Linux fine is not a reason not to switch.
The post does not ask that.
Fine, I'll add to my sentence for clarification, but (no offense) it should be obvious I'm referring to gaming since the whole topic is about... gaming on Linux.
The title was "Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to Linux. Should I?" In the post, they said:
So therefore they're asking whether they should switch to Linux (for gaming) based on their specs. OP even told you that's what they were saying, but you said "I disagree"...
You can't with any sound reasoning disagree that OP asked something, when not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood. OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can't tell them they don't know what they meant, when they're literally the person who said it. I get it that you're having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you're allowed to accept that you misunderstood. You're allowed to be wrong.
I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.
/s to make a point
I haven't commented on what they meant, only on what they said.
LOL
Didn't you?... Did I?... What's this then?:
You (rah):
OP (WIZARD POPE):
You (rah):
OP (WIZARD POPE):
You (rah):
Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence "I disagree" is not you disagreeing.
Yes, and you wouldn't have commented on what they said if you didn't first interpret what you thought they meant. OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them, that they meant what they said they meant, which is what was so stupid about your "I disagree" response. I don't see what's so difficult to understand for you.
No no, that's what I said, that's not what I meant. You misunderstood.
/s to make a point
I disagreed with their assertion that the main text "kinda does", I didn't disagree with their clarification of what they meant. You can tell because I quoted precisely what I was disagreeing with.
Isn't the clarification of what they meant, also the exact same thing as what they originally said? They clarified what they meant by what they said, not by the context that you think they didn't provide in the original text, so in my eyes they did say the same thing as what they clarified to you. You just didn't seem to understand the original text, when in it, they specifically said they wanted to know what Linux distro would work best based on specs for gaming... Which brings us back to your original reply to OP. Why did you say "If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch."? Because the only reason I can find, is if you misunderstood and thought they were asking if they should switch to Linux in a general sense, rather then specifically based on their specs for gaming. Many people downvoted your comment including myself (because I felt you were misunderstanding OP's question), and I think most other downvoters did so for the same reason... so it would be good to know if we just misunderstood your point. But it doesn't seem so when OP had to clarify to you what they meant and everyone else commenting already seemed to get it.
I don't get what you mean. I know what /s means but I'm very confused what you're trying to say. That "I disagree" what sarcastic?
No.
I don't understand that sentence.
Such a question hints at a lack of curiosity and wherewithal, engendering an expectation that it would be problematic for the asker to switch, both in general and based on hardware specs.
I was indicating that I was being sarcastic in order to make a point.
That ask is a bad question when an E machine from 2005 will run swimmingly with any distro. The better question would be will it do what I want in the way that I want and no one asks. Bonus tho as two years ago I didnt see this kind of person actively searching for a new OS.