I installed Linux on my gaming PC and stopped dual-booting Windows for good
I installed Linux on my gaming PC and stopped dual-booting Windows for good
Publish Date: 2026-05-10 10:00:00
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I hate Windows. Full stop. I have to use it for work, like many of you, but it’s just a mess to use. It’s become a product that continues to treat us all like the thing being sold instead of the customer. There are ads in the Start menu, telemetry that’s hard to disable, and an AI assistant we’re still not asking for. Through it all, though, what keeps me using Microsoft’s bloated OS is gaming. Even though I tend to think of myself as a console gamer, I have a pretty decent Steam library. For years, Linux (and macOS, which I truly prefer), just wasn’t an option.
That’s changing, though. Proton, Valve’s compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, continues to add more and more games from the Steam catalog. Bazzite is a gaming-focused Linux distribution built on Fedora Atomic that ships with everything this gamer needs (and more), pre-configured and ready to go, including Nvidia drivers, Steam and Proton all ready out of the box. I installed Bazzite on my MSI Cyborg mid-range gaming laptop alongside Windows to find out if it’s finally good enough to make the dual-booting a thing of the past. After some testing, I have an answer, though it comes with a word or two of caution.
What you need before you start
Get your Windows machine ready before you touch the BIOS
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The first thing I needed to do was disable Fast…
