I've been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it's part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
Nuking your windows drive and not dual booting is a very brave decision. Not having another OS (where you know the way) waving at you makes the Linux learning experience much more rewarding.
For sure. I wanted to dual boot at first but I had multiple partitions and drives formatted as NTFS. Plus my EFI partition was too small.
I would have needed to nuke everything anyways, create a neat partition table, install windows again, then install Arch. And then I know you get issues like the time being messed up, Bluetooth can be fudged too. I decided to just try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. :)
FYI if you decide to dual boot at some point you can set Windows to use UTC. It's even less intuitive than how systemd can be set to local time.
Also if you can, if you decide to dual boot I recommend separate drives. Windows has gotten nicer but it still doesn't play well with others because, let's be honestly, most of the time it doesn't have to. So if you run recovery if Windows doesn't boot, it's not unusual for it to nuke EFI like it's still the 90s and Win98 just nuked LILO.
Yeah im aware. I’ve had to do it in the past, it’s a registry edit IIRC
I went a few years with just a single boot system at home and you definitely learn a lot that way lol