In a couple of weeks I will have a spare gaming pc, spec is i7 6700k, asus 170 deluxe, 16gb, samsung 950 pro 500gb m2, 2*Intel SSD 2*4TB HD, 970 GTX, Strix sound card.
At the moment it is running windows 10 professional, this is a pure games machine used for nothing else (I even browse the web/email on a seperate laptop).
So my idea is use this as a test bed, we all know that linux can be a lot more secure both from privacy and attacks standpoint if setup right (I used to run mandrake servers for online games) so what experience do people have with it as a gaming system.
Important notes
1)I am not talking the odd game, I have 517 games in my steam library I would want to get at least 90% of them working with the system.
2)I know due to increased software layers wine ect some slow down in performance may be seen but with a system of the above spec should not affect badly.
3)Not just old games it would have to work for Dx 11-12 titles too.
4)I do not mind messing with files and configs I grew up with dos and Unix so the ease of use is not really something I class as a positive in windows favour (I miss the real dos prompt).
If this was possible and worked well then I would switch all the family windows computers over to linux derivative. (on a side note I removed windows 7 from a sony vaio because it was causing an Uncle a lot of issues replaced it with Ubuntu and no way he would go back to windows.)
It is just the gamer in me that keeps me from doing this already.
At the moment it is running windows 10 professional, this is a pure games machine used for nothing else (I even browse the web/email on a seperate laptop).
So my idea is use this as a test bed, we all know that linux can be a lot more secure both from privacy and attacks standpoint if setup right (I used to run mandrake servers for online games) so what experience do people have with it as a gaming system.
Important notes
1)I am not talking the odd game, I have 517 games in my steam library I would want to get at least 90% of them working with the system.
2)I know due to increased software layers wine ect some slow down in performance may be seen but with a system of the above spec should not affect badly.
3)Not just old games it would have to work for Dx 11-12 titles too.
4)I do not mind messing with files and configs I grew up with dos and Unix so the ease of use is not really something I class as a positive in windows favour (I miss the real dos prompt).
If this was possible and worked well then I would switch all the family windows computers over to linux derivative. (on a side note I removed windows 7 from a sony vaio because it was causing an Uncle a lot of issues replaced it with Ubuntu and no way he would go back to windows.)
It is just the gamer in me that keeps me from doing this already.
