Glad I took the plunge and installed mint linux, hasn't been installed that long and I still use windows 10 for now. Still trying to get everything working, but yeah windows is going away if I have anything to say about it.
I was very surprised how smooth it actually is as well. I was not clear how Wine works for nom-Steam games but once I learned about Heroic launcher and Lutris it was pretty much smooth sailing so far.
I thought I will use Linux every now and then, instead I never booted Windows ever since installing Mint.
Same here. Switched over to mint as my main driver about 3 months ago. I keep a win 10 installation in order to play one game. If windows tries to mess with my dual boot, I'll boot windows out the door. I don't need to pay that game that bad...
I had a dual boot going for six weeks this summer, but Mint had a lot of incompatibility issues with my Nvidia setup. I did love Mint, though, just not having to troubleshoot almost every time I booted up my PC.
I'm going to upgrade to a new PC later this year, and when I do, I'm going to do a dedicated Linux install on my old PC with a different distro and use the new one only for gaming.
I had a similar issue with my Mint installation earlier this year as well. I have a 2080Ti, and the default drivers and the drivers I kept getting prompted to install would always cause my resolution to be potato quality. I never did figure out how to squash that.
I installed Mint this past spring and fiddled around with it briefly every once in a while but I'm not a tech guy so there was a little bit of a learning curve on stuff like getting a second monitor to work, stuff like that. I'm sure you've already found out that there's TONS of documentation and forums for questions, it's just a matter of feeling kinda dumb for a little while as you troubleshoot.
I switched over to Mint full time a few months ago and haven't looked back. I've still got Win10 on an extra hard drive just in case but I think more and more of reclaiming that space for Steam now, I don't miss Windows at all
At this point installing win11 is a bug that can be easily fixed by installing anything from Linux to BSD to even something as incomplete and not meant for use as a daily driver as AROS at this point.