I’m scared of screwing up the install and not being able to play my current vice videogame (Marvel Rivals).

My laptop is a MSI Cyborg 15 A13V.

Eh, the install for most distros is pretty hard to screw up, just be careful about your Nvidia drivers. I’ve had bad luck with laptops with Nvidia in past, but actually running the game in Linux (at least from steam/proton) should be pretty seamless.

Yeah, my laptop’s drivers is what makes me nervous.

Actually learning a new OS? Nah, I can get around that.

Same way I been learning to use Matrix/set it up for friends.

Marvel Rivals has a gold rating on ProtonDB (meaning it works usually without tinkering).

If you’re concerned about drivers, use Bazzite as your distro. It manages drivers automatically and comes preinstalled with support for pretty much anything on Steam. In addition to being a highly polished distro with strong gamer presentation.

Adding to that, drivers are basically a non-issue in 99% of the cases by now. Linux has really outdone themselves on that.

Case and point, I plugged in an audio interface into Linux after installing a DAW and pipewire and it just worked out of the box.

Fedora or Bazzite

You were right, Bazzite is amazing.

I dumped windows, thanks for the suggestion fam

Nice lol, have fun!