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.

                                                  nodq Nope, just griefers, there's no in-game or out of game for that matter reporting for abusive players, I don't even think you can mute them.

                                                    Fatih19 When you have an old HD 4600 graphics and you go below 30 fps it's not feeling smooth-which at least for me is pain in the ass.

                                                      nodq Hahah...well is it possible to easily run some not very well known programs like bot for Hearthstone, deck trackers, arena scores etc. ?

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                                                          OK now I am ready to do dual boot. So first I have to burn USB with Solus, then create a new partition on the secound Hard drive and install Solus there. Is there anything I need to know? Like why do I need to burn USB with rufus instead of just copy-paste(I know silly question), what to do with this thing called UEFI(I understand it as simply a BIOS).
                                                          https://i.imgur.com/5grM8oU.png
                                                          Also I have found some bugs when using cyrillic alphabet-not being able to write a PC name and install.
                                                          After installing on VM with English and changing the language again I was logged out and I could only log with using an empty password...then I saw that in order to change language the shortcut was not Alt + Shift but Super + Alt...why is this strange combination a thing?