:Emperor With that information about your Dad, I would say Faith19's dual drives idea might be best. The hard thing is always the setup, though. But people here would guide you through if you went that route. Good luck.

    Fatih19 Yes my friend 🙂 I want to use Darktable + GIMP(to replace Lightroom and Photoshop) I like the mask option in Darktable which alone makes it better than Lightroom, I also like how it makes image cool only with it's curves automatically-which other youtubers seems to dislike?! GIMP wouldn't be used often(as Photoshop)-I have 2 questions about it-is it a good ideal to just watch videos about Photoshop and use them to work in GIMP...I know there aren't layer masks, but even they will come alive soon 🙂. Also why Photoshop shows the size of a file and when saved it's exactly that, while GIMP shows 330MB for simple edits and when saved it's 60MB(which to me seems very big file for nothing).
    I actually have 2 Hard disks 🙂 But I prefer to put Linux and W10 on the same hardrive-is it gonna be so bad?
    Also I know for W10 it's best to use Windows Defender + Malware protection(for me Emisoft, because I read that it is ,,privacy respecting''). But what about Linux? Linux might be famouse because it is safer than W7,8,10 , but to be honest Linux is 27 years old, it randomly kills some proceses as that's it's nature and that's the best we have...it's used on most servers and super computers(this information is from this site http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ and I had found it via Purism's Librem 5 web site). Still it is good enough, but it's not so secure-so what should I use for Linux instead of Microsoft Defender and Emisoft?

        Honestly you'd probably be better off without antimalware suites, even on Windows. Keeping Windows Defender running can't hurt though. There have been numerous security issues with antimalware software itself over the years, and I'm not sure whether there is any added benefit over the included Defender on an updated system. Btw I wouldn't recommend turning off updates as you've mentioned above if you use the internet on that computer. Sounds like a very bad idea.

          Staudey Antimalware unintalled. I will probably only donwload and use it once every 6 months then delete it.
          And what would be the Linux's Defender?

            Wow I told you security was a barn-burner. I consider W10 a compromised, open wound of bloat and mal that calls home every 5 seconds and I could not have enough security installed for any version...not only that the privacy policy is terrifying and I've read every word. Those two things alone made me turn my back forever (except for workplace PC's).
            Linux can also be compromised but I still 'feel' a heckuva a lot more secure with a stiff firewall here and a community with it's best interests in mind.

              brent I know my friend-but I have to have W10...at least for now.

                Emperor Why are you giving Linux a prejudice? Try it out first, then give your opinion.
                I'd prefer you buy another drive if you can.

                    In Ubuntu, you get the packages from Ubuntu's package repository and Snap Store. Usually the package from Snap Store is newer, but it's bundled with required library for that application. The package from package repository is older and smaller, because it's using system library. Solus basically only have one package because it's only pull the packages from Solus' package repository, and it's newer because Solus is rolling release.

                    Regarding privacy, Solus never harvest your data. Solus doesn't even know how many people downloading and using Solus.

                      Don't ditch Windows right away. I know many people that did that, and then realized that they are overwhelmed by Linux as a daily driver and/or don't like it that much.

                      I use Linux since 15+ years but I still have an extra SSD drive with Windows on it. Just in case. For that particular game thats brand new I REALLY wanna play on release day and just doesn't work at all on Linux, most of the time it is due to Anti Cheat tools that it won't work at all on Linux. Like Apex Legends for example, and EAC.

                      So if you have more than one Drive, keep Windows on one and use Linux on another drive. Before you delete Windows, use Solus/Linux for a couple of weeks or even months. Then decide.

                      And about Hearthstone. It runs fine with Lutris, like all Blizzard games. I play them all on Linux, WoW, SC2, HotS, OW etc.

                      https://lutris.net/games/hearthstone/

                        nodq OW still got the mouse input jitters or have they fixed that now? Haven't played around with it for a while.

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                            yursan9 even distrowatch, a website used to know what's the most popular distro, doesn't even collect data from the end-users. They tracked the traffic on the Distro's website. That really shows how Linux-based OS respects users privacy.

                              nodq So Lutris is like Wine, but for games?! Does it drop down fps of the games compared to Windows much?
                              Also isn't Wine gonna do the same work-I only need Hearthstone from Windows games...

                                  Emperor there's some fps drop, but it's not much. Plus, does fps REALLY matters in hearthstone?

                                      Justin If I remember correctly it was a problem due to Battle.net.exe and/or Agent.exe. There was kinda the same problem on Windows tho. Where Battle.net Launcher fucked with performance in games.

                                      Solution back then on Linux was killall Battle.net.exe Agent.exe

                                      Or just use the setting in Battle.net Launcher to close itself after launching a game, that kills Battle.net.exe but not Agent.exe IIRC.

                                      And about OW in general. For me, it runs perfectly fine on Linux. And on Solus it feels even more smooth. My mouse feels better than on Windows to be honest. I do have 1x1 pixel movement on Windows, no skipping etc. no accel. ofc. But still, it feels somehow better on Linux/Solus for me. Only thing is, when starting the game first, it drops on frames for couple of seconds, because if shader caching or whatever. But thats about it.

                                          Emperor Lutris is just a launcher, it has launchers that use steam, wine, gog.com etc. Lutris however puts together custom wine builds that work best for each game so you don't have to tweak stuff.

                                            nodq Gotta give it another go!

                                            Also need to test BF-V as that's the only other game I play lately.

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                                                Emperor With Wine, there are lots of scripts, tweaks, versions etc. Lutris has a "Database" of games where they provide install scripts with the best possible settings, versions, tweaks and all that.

                                                So you do not need to research anything anymore or do anything on your own. Maybe set some settings in Lutris UI itself, thats about it. Lutris does all the work for you to get your games working. Just follow instructions, if there are any for the game you wanna install.

                                                Justin Origin games are tricky. I am not an EA fan, don't like BF at all. But as far as I am aware, BFV can be installed with Origin. I don't know if it works.
                                                Apex Legends for example, because of easy anti cheat does not work. BF uses BattleEye IIRC. So that could give problems too, I guess.

                                                      Won't play Apex Legends until they get their griefing sorted out.

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                                                        Justin You are talking about cheaters? Yeh, first 10 days were great, had fun with it. But just one day after a particular "cheat package" was released, AL was spammed with cheaters left and right. It is insane. Never saw that many hackers and cheater in my 20+ years of gaming on PC. haha. That is pretty much why I stopped playing it.