Even Nvidia drivers have come a long way recently. I used to always have a windows setup and used it more than Linux whenever I was off work, but this year I was finally confident enough on Linux to ditch it. I have Nvidia gpus on all my PCs, with both Intel and AMD cpus, and they are all working perfectly fine with multiple 4k screens.

So far there were only two games I was unable to play on Linux - Demoncrawl and Inzoi. And the second is filled with reports saying it works ootb for other Linux users, so if I had tried to tinker I could probably get it to work. (I haven’t had to tinker with anything else tho).

I agree with you in general, but there are people out there making specific distros with that sort of stuff in mind too. Ublue’s OSs is pretty much that: “just use it and leave the tinkering to us”. And I would argue if you’re not a developer doing advanced stuff, those work just as smoothly as windows does.

Checkout Bluefin (or Bazzite if you’re more into games). They do a pretty good work at making you not need to know anything about Linux to use it well.

Unless you happen to need some uncommon driver or software, you can “just use” it.

I ditched my laptop for a steam deck. I use a desktop at home and whenever I need to go to the office I just bring the deck and some peripherals.

Repeating tasks is a trivial thing on windows too, at least since xp - though I wouldn’t doubt this sort of thing might require a professional edition.

Have you seen how fast computers turn on these days (from complete shutdowns)? It’s 2-3 seconds (if hibernation is completely off). Barely an inconvenience - specially not one worth risking the pc turning on by itself on random times.

Not every Nvidia but always Nvidia.

Just installed it here. Setup process was not as smooth as I had hoped but nothing beyond what I’m already capable of fixing on my own.

Ended up nuking windows with it (with no backups) as it didn’t have an option to keep it without manually setting up every partition. Hope I won’t miss it.

Do you recommend Bazzite, or any other similar distro, for gaming PCs?

I currently have a dual boot system where I use Linux for work and windows only for gaming and gamedev. I’ve recently started cleaning up the windows disk in preparation for replacing it with something like SteamOS, but haven’t decided yet on what to use.