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Screw it, I’m installing Linux

DATE POSTED:November 19, 2025
The linux Tux mascot, a penguin, wearing a gaming headset and sitting in front of a gaming monitor and PC tower. Penguin not actual size.

This time I'm really going to do it. I am going to put Linux on my gaming PC. Calling it now. 2026 is the year of Linux on the desktop. Or at least on mine.

Linux has been a perfectly viable desktop OS for ages. But gaming on Linux is now viable, too. Valve's hard work getting Windows games to run well on the Linux-based Steam Deck has lifted all boats. Gaming handhelds that ship with Windows run better and have higher frame rates on Bazzite, a Fedora-based distro, than they do with Windows. And after reading about the upcoming Steam Machine and Antonio's experience running Bazzite on the Framework Desktop, I want to try it.

To be clear, …

Read the full story at The Verge.