I'm thinking about installing linux on my brother's laptop so he can play games with slightly better performance.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

don't you need some persistence system for that to work?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Nah.

    Live images have the image, and free space. Anything you install while they're on uses that free space, and when you turn them off, they still have an untouched OS partition. The space you used to install things gets wiped, essentially.

    But you CAN use that space, Linux works as it normally would, just on a USB. Steam could even download a cloud save and upload after you've played, as long as you don't restart the computer.

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