I want to install ubuntu, but is it good enough for gaming? Should i otherwise install another linux distro?
I personally like bazzite for its ease of use and user friendlyness. I just turn on my PC and game. But if you want, you can try whatever distro you like.
i heard of it
Just install mesa and you are good to go.
I like the design of ubuntu (im windows user) but i only today realized its similar to macOS
You can change most desktop designs on all distros. Check out Linux Mint tho, that's most similar to Windows. Otherwise Ubuntu is fine for u
I keep a windows partition and dual boot to game
Ubuntu/Debian is a safe way to start, heavily documented, just a little bit behind regarding bleeding edge novelties (but it is by design).
But their are other possibilities, and Bazzite is indeed a good one, it's the one I put on my daughter's PC and as the main admin, I'm very happy, I have nothing to do :D
As long as her Minecraft works, and she can see the videos I share, she is happy.
The machine is not a beast (Ryzen 3 + GTX 1060 6Gb), but it works flawlessly.
Depending on how confident/used to Linux you are, I can recommend CachyOS (I'm on it right now).
However, I strongly recommend, as a good Linux user, to RTFM beforehand.
This mainly because CachyOS offers a ton of options, and some my be preferable to your use case than others, and these choices are done at the install level.
(I know the following is all my fault, but I had to try it for science :D)
So far my main issues are all linked to Windows...
I'm in the process of converting all my drives to BTRFS instead of the Windows NTFS.
I'm am able to access, edit, move, play my files.
However, some games (not all) on my NTFS dedicated drive do not play, they just crash.
For instance, Stalker2 had no issues. But Satisfactory kept on crashing.
I moved the game to my BTRFS partition, and...It worked immediately >.<
I already have a Steam Deck, so I'm quite familiar with installing games on Linux, even from other vendors than Steam:
1 - Get Lutris and install it through it.
2 - If it doesn't work as expected, check game status on Protondb for hints.
99% of the time, I do not need the last step.
Way too much is made of the importance of distro selection for gaming.
Ubuntu is totally fine (or rather if a game won't run on Ubuntu, its unlikely that another distro can help out)