Win11 vs SteamOS

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Atm I run a 6 year old installation of Windows 10. I installed a new one 4 years ago when I did a hardware upgrade (from 1600X to 5600X and from 1070 to 3060Ti), but I kept all settings etc.

The performance has noticeably deteriorated over the past years piece by piece so I am planning to do a full new reinstall on a completely fresh SSD.

Now I wonder, should it be Windows 11 or should it be Steam OS?

I mostly do Gaming and modding (Photoshop, Blender, Hex Editing software and dedicated game editing tools, Stuff that requires DotNet5)

I assume for the Editing I‘d need Windows 11. but I assume SteamOS might be more performant for gaming as it’s less heavy by default.

But I am also concerned about older games (early 2000s), will they even run on SteamOS?

Hardware atm is: 5600X running at vanilla specs. Aorus Z570 (iirc the Aorus Master), 32GB G.Skill TridentZ 3600. Aorus 3060Ti, 650W Bitfenix Whisper M, cooled by a Fuma 2 in a Phanteks P600S case. Windows is running on a Samsung 980. I want to change that to something more Modern like an SN950.

Any help with the OS and SSD upgrade situation would be appreciated.

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Not sure if SteamOS would be compatible with your GPU. Why not some other kind of Linux distro & Proton/Lutris? If you need Windows, you could do VM's or have a dual boot setup.

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Atm I run a 6 year old installation of Windows 10. I installed a new one 4 years ago when I did a hardware upgrade (from 1600X to 5600X and from 1070 to 3060Ti), but I kept all settings etc.

The performance has noticeably deteriorated over the past years piece by piece so I am planning to do a full new reinstall on a completely fresh SSD.

Now I wonder, should it be Windows 11 or should it be Steam OS?

I mostly do Gaming and modding (Photoshop, Blender, Hex Editing software and dedicated game editing tools, Stuff that requires DotNet5)

I assume for the Editing I‘d need Windows 11. but I assume SteamOS might be more performant for gaming as it’s less heavy by default.

But I am also concerned about older games (early 2000s), will they even run on SteamOS?

Hardware atm is: 5600X running at vanilla specs. Aorus Z570 (iirc the Aorus Master), 32GB G.Skill TridentZ 3600. Aorus 3060Ti, 650W Bitfenix Whisper M, cooled by a Fuma 2 in a Phanteks P600S case. Windows is running on a Samsung 980. I want to change that to something more Modern like an SN950.
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Any help with the OS and SSD upgrade situation would be appreciated.

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