Ufff. I just remembered how much fun i had in tribes ascend. Using ass-granades to get that flag steal going. And teenage-me favourite- finding a good spot near generator and just mirv granade launching it to hell.

I had laptop with descrete Nvidia graphics card and had no trouble with most of the distros i tried. Theh either offer inbuilt driver app, which let’s you choose which driver to use or you google it and follow an uncomplicated guide.

That being said, i always recommend dual booting at first, something might go wrong with your first installation or you just forgot that you had something important on windows. If it’s a desktop, i recommend getting and extra ssd. Which you will use for linux (for now). Later it’s always convenient to have extra storage. They are not too expensive anymore. You can have your linux playground, where you can test distros and see how they actually work on your machine and you can revert to windows in the meantime.

Steam and lutris. Lately only steam, as I’m using steam deck as my desktop and it’s just so much easier when everything is in one place.

But lutris for wow classic and gw2 worked very well. Also on my previous laptop.

I guess I’m just not gaming that much anymore to need anything specific.