Been thinking of switching to linux but I am a noob

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  • lutris

    Lutris desktop client

  • My advice would be to go to Protondb first and look at your Steam games and how it would fit. They are graded at Gold/Platinum/Silver in terms of compatibility. Alternatively you can try Lutris if your game is not in Steam. I think there are a few others but I can't recall any.

  • mesa

    Discontinued Mesa 3D graphics library (read-only mirror of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/)

  • No problems, AMD Adrenalin it's a part of Windows AMD drivers, but on Linux you have not this soft, here is link: https://github.com/Mesa3D/mesa

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • HeroicGamesLauncher

    A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.

  • Heroic

  • flatpak

    Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

  • Flatpak

  • Proton

    Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  • There's an official mini-guide on using your NTFS game drive on Linux, though I would strongly suggest trying to use it as-is without following the guide first! https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

  • linux-tkg

    linux-tkg custom kernels

  • Generally, Arch is the better platform for getting various kernel versions, but there's always stuff like Xanmod which is easy to do in any distro. Worst case, could always use linux-tkg script to build your own kernel - with that kind of hardware it shouldn't take long for the kernel to be built.

  • linux

    XanMod: Linux kernel source code tree (by xanmod)

  • Generally, Arch is the better platform for getting various kernel versions, but there's always stuff like Xanmod which is easy to do in any distro. Worst case, could always use linux-tkg script to build your own kernel - with that kind of hardware it shouldn't take long for the kernel to be built.

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