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Possibly yes, and incressingly possible over time. Check out ProtonDB. Proton is built into Steam. I don't know anything about Epic.
Absolutely yes.
Yep, there's support for multiple hard drives, and Linux can read NTFS-formatted drives. But what's more, Linux installers have long supported "guided partitioning," which helps you install the OS alongside an existing one like Windows, and then choose between the two when you boot. Of course, when you're installing any new OS, even Windows, you should make sure you have backups of all your stuff, just in case.
I still recommend getting a new SSD to install Linux on if you want to keep the ability to run your old Windows on that same machine. It is cheap, safe for both your Windows and Linux installs, usually allows you to take advantage of advancements in SSD speeds, lets you have access to your old files so you can transfer them over and makes the whole process far less terrifying.
At some point you'll realize you haven't used your Windows drive in a year and it will be a lot easier to make the decision to finally erase it all and repurpose the drive for something else.
It hasn't been a year yet but so far it's been the other way around for me (except for the VM I run my piracy stuff on and my media server, that's going great). I have been running into constant issues and annoyances trying to use Linux as my daily driver. Maybe if all I cared about was streaming content and gaming it would be fine but I couldn't even get through my taxes without having to switch back.
@lightnsfw @DaddleDew what tax program? All the major ones I know of (at least in the US) not only run just fine but are fully supported by the company that makes them to run on linux (honestly mostly because they're all either just web or electron apps now anyways)
It wasn't the website. The pdf app wouldn't open files off my file server because it didn't know how to handle the smb prefix in the file path.
@lightnsfw which distro? all major linux distros support the smb:// prefix out of the box. (the app shouldn't matter, as it's just a filesystem handle)
Bazzite. It was that specific app that couldn't open the file. I can't remember the name of the app Ocu-something I think. Dolphin was able to browse my server just fine. Honestly never had an issue like that on Linux before. I found a fix for it by going in and changing a config file for how the app handles files from SMB but expecting people to have to do that just for opening shit from a network share is just the kind of things that make using Linux annoying. I'm still going to work at it because Windows is bad too but they're not in competition because of how great Linux is. It's because windows is getting worse.
Edit: This was the specific issue: https://gist.github.com/NonLogicalDev/f518e93aa19d3fc620bae15d388cba58