Im currently running a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 11 (recently switched from Windows 10).
Long term, I want to move fully to Linux, but heres the catch Im considering running a Linux–Linux dual boot instead basically using Mint alongside something like Fedora. The main purpose of this machine is gaming.
So far, Ive tested around 40 games on Mint. About 37 worked basically out of the box. For two of them, a friend helped me get things running, and the last one only worked after I swtiched to older NVIDIA drivers. Overall pretty happy with the results
Im also planning to move to an AMD GPU in the future, since Ive heard they tend to be less hassle on Linux than NVIDIA cards.
My plan is to give each Linux distro its own 1-terabyte SSD. So the question is: is this overall a bad idea? I like Mint,but I also want to try out other distros for a longer time period, and I really like the flexibility that dual booting gives me.
Would Mint and Fedora be a good pairing for mostly gaming and a bit of browsing, or would you recommend something other than Fedora? Its going good so far on Mint. One of the reasons why Im considering a Linux dualboot is cause I could run Mint with older drivers and Fedora with cutting edge drivers and that way hopefully max performance in my gaming. (That was at least my idea as a novice)
Lets have a bit of a discussion. All and any input is welcome. Yes I was the person that asked about dualbooting windows and linux in the past
You might be able to simplify things by just going a distro like Bazzite. It’s based on Fedora and has all the addons for gaming. I’ve got it on a laptop and it has given me fewer issues than Mint on my big gaming PC.
Linux should play well with other distros on different drives, it’s only Windows that gets shitty if you try to dualboot. Whilst having a bunch of different OSes on the same machine should be fine, trying to get as much as you can out of one will just make things easier