Install steam.
Mount your NTFS drive which contains your windows games.
If you have sims on steam use steam.
If not take a look at lutris before doing any of the above.
Your experiment ends when you've tested all games you want to play.
Now: You cannot use NTFS (windows) drive for games, although you did it in the experiment long extended usage is discouraged.
So you will need to find a way to transfer your games to a different formatted drive. (ext4, btrfs for example)
If you don't need that advice you will eventually run into frustrating issues.
"grug try watch patiently as cut points emerge from code and slowly refactor, with code base taking shape over time along with experience. no hard/ fast rule for this: grug know cut point when grug see cut point, just take time to build skill in seeing, patience
sometimes grug go too early and get abstractions wrong, so grug bias towards waiting
big brain developers often not like this at all and invent many abstractions start of project
grug tempted to reach for club and yell “big brain no maintain code! big brain move on next architecture committee leave code for grug deal with!”
This is a reminder that it's okay to enjoy garbage and accept that it is garbage. You don't need validation from strangers. you don't have to convince strangers that what you consume is only the most peak content possible.
I love stupid exploits like the patapon demo exploit where you use a specific save file as the payload entry point. That's what I like the most about exploits. Or how for Nintendo consoles all the Smash games can be used to install cfw.
Ah the nostalgic days of obsessing over wololo to see if my firmware was finally going to be supported.
IIRC for the PSP there came a day where you could run code straight from the external storage card without needing anything else. Which led to bootable game ISOs from the vanilla UI.
I could be remembering things wrong as it has been over a decade.
I think Windows could be a far better OS than Linux if Microsoft gave a single shit. Instead they want to add AI and recall and various invasive updates.
The only thing windows has going is the market share.
Unpopular opinion maybe but I like Lemmy and lemmy users and I'm glad that we're a bit different from Reddit. At least in my experience it feels a bit different.
A mistake people make very often is to conflate the distro with a "look" or "theme" to the UI, and it's not their fault.
Distros bundle a desktop environment which contains many applications used to navigate the computer graphically with things like "file managers" such as Windows explorer for example.
A DE can bundle lots of programs or very few and these programs differ in looks and functionality, not only that but these programs can be installed / uninstalled regardless of what distro you're using.
In short: distro doesn't affect DE but must distros bundle a DE based on things like philosophy, functionality or maybe just looks.
There are many DEs which is why I suggested installing CachyOS as part of the installation shows you options, you can try them out rewipe the drive, try out another one in less than 3 minutes. So it's the perfect sandbox environment to try new things. I guess you can use VMs as well, not sure how well cachyos works on VM.
As a personal note on DEs when I first used Linux about 5 years ago I used KDE plasma because I thought it was the most windows-like. But I had many issues with KDE, chances are if you use your search engine you'll see similar complaints about it which I likely share.
5 years in the future my favourite DE is basically using Sway and a file manager like Nautilus. Sway has Swaybar as a status bar and that's really all I need.
Not sure if Sway counts as a DE though, I think it's a window manager first and foremost.
RX 9070 when it comes out, Mint is good but there are so many good options. I suggest using cachyos and trying out all the DEs so you pick something you like. Although you don't have to stick with CachyOS if you don't want to.
Maybe it's a personality thing but for things I care about I can't just not try. I have to try. People that don't try in their hobbies are pathetic to me. You mean to tell me you're here stuck on this rock with me and you're this bad at the one thing you claim to love the most ?
can someone explain to me AMD's strategy? they're waiting for Nvidia to release the 5000 series for weeks before releasing their own? how does that make any sense
I've played shooter games since a kid and I've never wanted to own a gun. it's 100% a special kind of brainrot/power trip to want to hold and own deadly weapons and you won't convince me otherwise
yes hunting is a thing, I promise you the vast majority of American gun owners are not hunters.
You should just test run it from a bootable usb.
Install steam. Mount your NTFS drive which contains your windows games. If you have sims on steam use steam. If not take a look at lutris before doing any of the above.
Your experiment ends when you've tested all games you want to play.
Now: You cannot use NTFS (windows) drive for games, although you did it in the experiment long extended usage is discouraged.
So you will need to find a way to transfer your games to a different formatted drive. (ext4, btrfs for example)
If you don't need that advice you will eventually run into frustrating issues.