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Slackware '96 with FVWM95.
Your best bet would be to install Debian or Ubuntu and then use Wine or https://lutris.net/ + Steam for Linux to run games. The look of the OS will be different than Windows though.
Debian + forget about running games in Wine. If the games you play are not available for linux you might need to install windows as second OS for gaming.
ZorinOS, Linux Mint, ElementaryOS
Right now I been using Solus for linux gaming.
What about https://www.playonlinux.com/de/ though? It's using Wine isn't it? Haven't used it myself yet but from what I've heard a lot of people are happy with it.
+1 for Solus, minus the high battery usage on laptops
It's basically just a wrapper around WINE. CodeWeavers had a nice custom version of wine years ago that patched around the majority of game/etc issues so you could play them, but I don't think too many people will buy their current product just to play games.
I would go with Ubuntu. It's popular -> lot's of guides and easy to get help when needed.
Zorin looks and feels littlebit more like Windows, but Ubuntu is easy to learn.
Dual boot with Mint and don't look back.
Ubuntu, forget about games or buy second SSD and install windows on it.
Every answer other than Ubuntu and TempleOS is wrong.
well i play steam games like pubg and cs 1.6 and cs go . can i also play in linux? windows will be my 2nd system though
https://manjaro.org/
What about OpenSUSE tho?
Slack 96 was the first distro version I ever installed at home. I got the CD from the back cover of a QUE published Linux book.
All versions of Counter-Strike work on Linux, MacOS and Windows without any virtualization. @Ympker yeh, seems like some project based on wine too. My experience with wine running windows games on macos was poor tbh so I ended up with dualboot.
Well steam has there own version of wine built in their software called proton. Just google steam proton and it give you a list which games will work.
+1 vote for steam play (proton).
Debian Thanks
Debian +Gnome + Cinnamon .. you will felt like you are still in windows 7 or so while you can do a lot of stuff.
On the other and, just install ubuntu terminal in windows 10 if you still want to play games and want try part of linux.
Have a look at Kubuntu for desktop, it's a very nice UI and things are in obvious places. I'm a command line nut but I do find KDE to be a nice desktop environment when doing the usual stuff.
gentoo
Forget about Slackware or Gentoo
I have a PC with similar spec and I have just installed Ubuntu and everything goes well.
+1 for Debian/Ubuntu
For gamers, dual boot seems the best option in my opinion too. Linux for gamers is just not ready yet.
arch linux and forget games and learn to code...
Ubuntu, what else
can i use along windows ubuntu?