At this point, with Linus getting old, Stallman too, on top of getting canceled by the most of the linux community representatives https://rms-open-letter.github.io , shenanigans with nixos and mozilla, i think we are living on borrowed time.
@Meemoo I've always had a bad time finding solutions for my issues with debian. I feel like the debian/ubuntu community on the internet is often clueless and just throws random things at the problems in hope it goes away, documentation is either outdated or not that helpful. I love the Arch wiki. On the other hand i don't feel confident recommending the Arch, since it being a bleeding-edge rolling distro can eventually cause problems. Haven't had it happen to me yet in my one year of use, but it's probably bound to happen eventually. On the one hand finding debs of software should be easier than for other distros - on the other AUR is really nice.
@kamehamic@Meemoo I had a hunch that using just the steam launcher would be a more streamlined way to run the games on linux, but i didn't have that much experience myself with using it, so couldn't really tell if is as painless as i expect it to be (almost all of the games nowadays work for me out of the box. It used to be that i needed to install this or that library or tinker with forced desktop mode or the windows version in the config, which i don't know if you have reasonable access through steam). And Meemo just said games in general, so i wanted to cover for games that aren't on steam.
@Meemoo Linux can read NTFS partition, so you can access your files.
You can run most games through a piece of software called “wine” (my experience is indie-games biased, i don’t play AAA, but GuildWars and WoW worked for me for example). Steam has a “hidden” wine built in and there should be some help on the forums if it doesn’t work out of the box.
Software should work through wine (i’ve used vocaloid synthesizer throug it for example), although you probably should use native alternatives . It doesn’t “show up” on linux, you need to install “wine” through the package manager of your distribution and run
wine /path/to/file.exe
or create a shortcut to that command in your menu, on desktop or wherever you find convenient.