Thank you, that's really encouraging. If I didn't have the elgato bits and my Beacn mic, I don't think I'd ever even need a VM for windows. I'm really really impressed with it. Have you had any game not work for you in that time?
@ukGage I've been using Linux exclusively for ~2 years, and the only games I couldn't run natively were MapleStory and Destiny 2. At this point, the only thing holding back Linux gaming is if a publisher actively decides to disallow linux. The popular anti cheat solutions all with with Linux now, but sadly a lot of studios just can't be bothered with what effectively amounts to just sending one email. The only gaming related problem that's actually Linux's "fault" is VR support. VR on Linux is sadly still a horrible mess that only works once in a blue moon.
@@ukGage some games required some tweaking like using different versions of proton or using some commands in their launcher but most games run right out of the box . I don't really run any games that use any anti cheat software though from what I hear to get those games to work under linux will take many hoops to jump though and might still not work lol. usually though a good google search will lead to a reddit post or youtube video that will get ya up and running
It seems so far the only anti cheats that don't work are the kernel level anti cheats (e.g. Fortnite) - I was playing Marvel Rivals yesterday which only came out this month and has anti cheat, literally installed it with Steam and it just worked
Well, you just gained another sub. Welcome to land of the Penguin. It might not always be smooth sailing but its rewarding. I've been maining Linux for about 15 years.
Switched to Pop!_OS 5-6 weeks ago, and everything has been so smooth that I’ve never felt the need to go back to Windows for any of my usual tasks. The only exceptions are for more demanding games, where Windows performs better, and VR. Other than that, the minimal UI and the fact that everything "just works" (unlike 5 years ago) have been a pleasant surprise. Proton has also been a game-changer for enjoying Linux this time around. No more skipping product ads after OS updates, no cluttered menus-just a clean and efficient experience.
Which demanding games are you flicking back for? I think the most demanding thing I play is Warhammer 40k and it runs brilliantly. I don't really play anything VR other than occasionally on my sons oculus but that's all built in so simple enough. Glad it's going well for you, Pop was one of the ones I had on my list to choose between. I was surprised as well how everything just works. You hear lots about how complicated it is or how nothing works.
@ukGage Heavy fps games such as ready or not, arma 3, Delta force and quite a few racing games are not running well for me on Linux. But being more into indie games recently I don't really mind that much.. and it doesn't take long to reboot into Windows if needed.
@@ukGage The ones I play (mainly from the old pre-EA codemasters) work just great. Some older ones had issues on newer windows versions but not on linux
I see a lot of new users going with Bazzite for the gaming, I've never used it but it certainly seems to be impressing people. I think this coming year is going to be very hype for Linux gaming.
@@ukGage You made an excellent choice. Bazzite has to be the best OOB experience for gaming on Linux currently and comes with the advantage of being able to turn a HTPC into a SteamOS console, which I'm gonna be doing soon.
Thanks, I actually love the mouse growth. I don't think I articulated it properly, I think it's funny as I shake my mouse why I'm frustrated with something (in this case, Firefox not opening) so the frustration was with Firefox not the mouse growth. I find it really funny🤣
@@ukGage The mouse shake thing is a novel way in KDE (desktop) of being able to find your mouse if you 'lose' it anywhere on your screen(s). Just shake it and there it is! 😆
I used linux (nobara) for 3/4 months and had a really good experience overall, all the singleplayer games I was playing worked flawlessly. Then i was trying to play some multiplayer games with my friends, and the experience began to break down. Ive switched back to windows for now but i follow the linux gaming scene with anticipation to see when i can go back to linux
What games weren't working for you? I've been playing WoW and Minecraft online and had no problems but they do have very specific ways of doing multiplayer
I've recently made the switch completely. Hosting pretty much everything on a proper built server and then running everything else through ChromeOS thin clients. I do all my gaming through a Linux VM over the network now, everything is wired and it's so much more efficient. Every device in the house is now a pick up and go, whether I'm at my desktop or on the tablet/laptop, everything is exactly the same. Linux is doing the hard work for everything.
Sounds like a very interesting setup! If you have time, could you let me know what tools you've used to do the sharing? It'd be great to be able to game upstairs without moving everything about.
@@ukGage The short version is I bought a second hand threadripper pro, built myself an AI cluster with a pair of RTX A5000 cards, using Proxmox as the host OS/hypervisor and then discovered the hard way that running games through an LXC with multiple GPUs doesn't work very well. I've just put in an Arc B580 as well, which I feed through PCIe passthrough into the VM that's used for gaming. Sometimes I'll use the VM as a remote play steam host, other times i'll just play directly in the VM. Not much in it, other than some games run fine using network play on native Steam and others work better being played through the VM itself. Proxmox is brilliant for this kind of thing. It's also running my media server, network storage and a bunch of other things through containers, all of which I can run as and when are required. Setting up the gaming VM was probably the hardest part of it to be honest, and that's only because of my hardware choices and original use case. Fortunately I picked a board with enough PCIe to run 3 GPUs. If I didn't need both of the A5000s for actual work grunt, I'd have used one of them for the VM. Actually I'd probably have set up virtual GPUs and split each A5000 onto a few VMs, but that's the flexibility you get with Proxmox. Every client device in my house is now a ChromeOS device, though bare Linux would work just as well. I mainly went with Chromebooks/a Chromebox because I'm integrated into the Google ecosystem and like having the phone hub. If I wasn't bothered about that, I'd be running Linux on all of my client devices instead.
Someone else may have already mentioned this, but the reason for the memory showing as only 30.5 GB is because the rest is dedicated to the Radeon graphics. You may be able to change how much gets dedicated in the firmware (BIOS, really EFI) on your laptop.
Good to see another convert. Bazzite & the other uBlue distros are now my go to recommendation for new users. I run it on my Steam Deck and living room PC to keep things simple. Otherwise i'm one of those annoying Arch users. Also Satisfactory is such a superb game. The memory difference in the status page is down to sales people. Gigabytes used to be 1024MB, but sales people said that was too complicated, and hijacked GB making it 1000MB. So someone had the idea to create GiB or Gibibytes, at 1024MiB. Not too confusing or complicated at all, especially as most people don't know that the b/B at the end has different meanings too. Lowercase for Bits, and upper for Bytes. Thank you for attending my Ted Talk 😂
Aha that's great, thank you! My son has a Steam Deck, I did put windows on it for a while as I thought it would be easier for him but he's back on SteamOS and is probably better at using it than me already at 8 years old! I might actually try it on there for him, thank you!
@@ukGage It works out very similar to SteamOS but with a choice of desktops. As it's touch screen Gnome is my choice there. Otherwise you know what it can do over SteamOS.
He's fantastic 🤣 I misread that the first time as the illidan wallpaper making my game perform better.. and maybe it is? 🤣 Yeah it runs miles better for me, especially when recording. It's not even close when I'm in a group with lots of casters
I have been gaming on Linux for a couple of years now. Have been using Garuda (arch based) Opensuse Tumbleweed, Aurora (KDE version of bluefin (fedora) and now Bazzite for four months. Gaming has been flawless for me. I havent booted into windows for a year now for gaming. Only time is if I want to test hardware with cinebench and stuff. I finally chose Bazzite because it had all the gaming stuff ready, I just installed GoG- Amazon- and Epic games in Heroic launcher and the rest in Steam just like in Windows, no tinkering needed - just install games and play (I dont play online FPS games anyway, which I understand has problems with Linux/anti cheats) . I like the immutable way. Mainly because I dont do any heavy linux stuff, just want things to work. Only one minor thing is, for me who always put my desktop-PC to sleep mode when done, is that there is no notification when Bazzite does background updates (because you have to restart computer for them to activate) So I manually reboot the system once a week, not a big deal really but it would be nice with a notification. Anyway, I believe my distro hopping days are over, not to speak of Windows days :)
Thats great ! I've been using linux for 5 years now (mainly dev work, not gaming) and a year ago tried it on Thinkpad P1 and P16 which have nvidia workstation cards and i can safely say those work very well with quadro drivers, no issues on both X11 and wayland, though they arent as good for gaming as geforce cards obviously, glad you gave linux a chance. Using windows i spend more time fighting it than actually working on it (especially windows 11). If im ever using windows in the future it would be for that single piece of software only
Great to hear all these great experiences from people giving it a try. Yeah it's a shame with Windows, the latest versions of 11 are really poor. I still use it daily for work as the company I work for (like most) use Windows so I'll still have a view of it hopefully for if things get better. Ideally they all keep improving and it makes better OS's already
@@ukGage btw I have a tip for you : If you want to remove the password prompt every time you open virtual machine manager you can add your user to the "libvirt" group. There's also a better screen recorder than OBS in my opinion, you should definitely give it a try, its called GPU screen recorder, its on flathub so just use discover to install it. I tried it on an Intel i5 8th gen, and the CPU usage was 5%, using the integrated GPU instead, it leaves the system extremely snappy, and while gaming almost no performance loss
Yeah I was told that before I started and wasn't sure how much of a problem I'd have but the Nvidia drivers are great. The only thing that hasn't worked so far for me has been Waydroid
AMD GPU's function better by default, as the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia is just not great. But once you install the correct Nvidia proprietary driver for your distro and GPU, it tends to beat out AMD. Especially in productivity tasks. On the AMD side, the mesa driver by default is great, but if you want even better gaming performance you need to install the RADV driver and make sure it is set to run (I have an RX6600 in one of my computers running Arch Linux). If you want to do productivity tasks with GPU acceleration, you often need to use the proprietary AMDPRO driver and make sure it is set up to run properly. Everyone likes to make out AMD just works on Linux, but there is FAR more to it.
One of the things that made me cautious was many posts about Nvidia being bad on Reddit and the like but it looks like fairly recent updates have helped. So far, touch wood, everything I use works fine with mine!
@@ukGage Nvidia worked great in Xorg X11 for a really long time, but in the last couple of years there has been a lot of movement towards Wayland. This is what caused a lot of the more recent issues with Nvidia GPU's. These issues with Nvidia and Wayland have largely been resolved now due to Nvidia driver updates and working better alongside the open source community in general. Nvidia tends to run great on Wayland now. Some distros do require manual setup for kernel module loading for Nvidia GPUs, some do it automatically. Bazzite, and other distros that have a dedicated Nvidia version, all have everything set up correctly out of the box. If you were to use say Arch Linux as an example, you would have to do everything yourself to set it up right. I imagine a lot of the complaints about Nvidia not working are mostly due to people using distros like Arch where it is a fully manual set up of the proprietary drivers to work correctly. There is currently an open source Mesa Nvidia driver (NVK) in the works as well, but it is still early days yet. The hope is that the default Linux experience will be improved on Nvidia one the NVK driver is implemented. I would imagine some things would still be locked behind the proprietary driver. But that is the same for Intel GPU drivers on Linux, as well as AMD GPU drivers. They all keep a little something back that needs some form of proprietary implementation.
I first touched a computer in 1992 at 10 years old. It was a 486 running Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22. I was a Windows user up until 2019. I had dabbled with Linux through the years, but it was 2019 when I fully moved over, to Arch Linux, no less, no more dual booting. I only have a dual-boot to Windows 11 now to use Xenia. Once Xenia matures enough, I'll have no use for Windows at all. Best move I've made.
From 14 to 35 I used windows after 3 years on linux I still get giddy when I think about the fact I don't need windows anymore, im on fedora, it's a little work to set up but it's amazing
so happy to see more people doing the switch, i sadly still have win10 (i tried win11, i never wiped a drive so fast, that piece of trash that pretends to be an os should not exist) on my main pc cause i work with audio (mix, master and production) and the last time i tried ableton and some vsts were having a nice bit of trouble, so my work still requires windows as much as i wish it didnt, might try again some day, switching to waveform for my daw and trying to do the whole yabridge thing to see if they work better than in full wine, but in the meanwhile at least i still have linux on my laptop and i love it, i am more of a tinker with stuff linux user so i love to just grab my laptop and try some new stuff, do the whole "linux user installing a web browser meme" and stuff, at this moment i'm on bedrock linux (fedora, ubuntu and arch stratas) and it's one of the best setups i've had, very fun and working pretty well
I nearly just went back to Windows 10, glad I made the switch though. Hopefully music production catches up for you, there's a few others talking about it in the comments and also still dual boot
Wow, this is an amazing video :D Spoken from the heart with honest opinions and I am so glaad we have another new Linux gamer in our ranks!!! In the case of Minecraft Java running better, this is likelly down to the OpenGL and MESA drivers being more uptodate and optimised than the versions used on Windows!
With Firefox turn off hardware acceleration in the browsers settings. For some reason, it freaks out on Linux with an Nvidia GPU with hardware acceleration turned on atm.
Welcome to linux enjoy the control it gives you and yes you might encounter issues but it's worth it . I've been using linux since 2012 but only switched full time year ago and never looked back specially now with all the ai stuff recall and buggy windows updates and lack of control don't regret my choice. I distro hopped at first encountered bugs and problem's but with a bit of research and work i learn how to fix issue's and configure my os the way i like it and want to use it. I mostly do gaming and web browsing on my gaming pc so i went with cachy os because there kernel is really great and there nvidia support is also great as for the desktop environment i chose cinnamon it comes bare bones but i installed everything i need and now it's perfect. That's what linux is freedom to do what you want. People always say ah this and that don't work but they don't understand that linux is different then windows i doesn't hold your hand to do what you want but sometimes all it takes is a bit of research and the will to do the work and learn.
Hello. There are a lot of comments so maybe someone already told you but you can disable the cursor growing when shaking in the accessibility settings.
gaming on linux is awesome now a days... if there's any problems it's usually my hardware being underpowered now instead if it being software issues. :D
I did everything on my main machine on Windows almost 10 years ago. Then, I went to Linux for everything except art, photo manipulation, video editing and certain games that proton didn't play well. Then Proton got better and I could use it for gaming 100% of the time. Then I started using Kdenlive and Davinci resolve instead of Vegas so I started using Linux for editing 100% of the time. Then I realized that GIMP was better for me than Photoshop so now I use Linux for that 100% of the time. Then I found out that Krita was the best for my needs and now I used Linux for art 100% of the time. Then I realized there was zero purpose for Windows to take up any drive space and I uninstalled it and now I use Linux 100% of the time. For some people with very special use cases 100% switches won't be possible, but for most people who just browse the web and play emulated games and the odd FPS, a 100% switch is possible after a bit of acclimation.
That's great! I got to the same conclusion as you about Krita, really like it. I found kdenlive after I did this video and think it's great. I love resolve but having to convert my files after recording in OBS is a bit of a pain so finding Kdenlive and seeing that it can read my files is great. If you have any recommendations for me for apps to try let me know please!
@@ukGage For photo manipulation I always recommend darktable. You can set rules for each camera and different settings on that camera, like the ISO or lens used (based on EXIF information) so it runs a set of effects and filters automatically at the time of import, like lens correction, noise reduction, hot pixels deletion, etc You can try waydroid, I don't think it runs Out of the box on bazzite (as you may need to break out of the inmutable situation to change your kernel and manage LXC stuff) but it lets you run a whole android container (not an emulator) that integrates to some degree to your desktop environment and can use your whole GPU/CPU natively (you can even install a translation layer like libndk or libhoudini to run arm apps and games) Helvum, qpwgraph and other are also cool tools, you can have a whole patchbay to connect your audio/midi/video streams between apps, devices and virtual devices however you like with full control over it. And for VR on the oculus, try ALVR. It might just work first try but your mileage will, most likely, vary. A lot.
I wouldn't call myself a Linux expert, but I have been using Linux for a couple of years now and from my perspective it is really weird that you are doing a video talking about Linux with only 3 weeks experience with it. However, I do like you feedback on the subject, I personally just dual boot, but everybody does what works better for them, right? About those software for your hardware (the steam decks and the periferals software), did you try running them with wine?
Why is it weird? The whole video is about me as a new user making the switch and giving feedback of my experience in making the switch. Subject experience should never be gatekept, there are experiences and points of view that are relevant at different stages of learning. Yes, they don't work. Did plenty of research as well as testing. There's some good alternatives out there 🙂 Someone much cleverer and more experienced than I may get them working at some point
You can't use WINE like that. Its a user space translation layer and does not have direct access to the Linux Kernel. Therefore "Windows drivers" in WINE don't have access to the hardware and only work with the NT Kernel. If you want supported hardware when running Linux buy supported Linux hardware, it'll be plug and play. "Drivers" is a Windows thing ( apart from NVIDIA ). Note: Don't confuse "drivers" with "software to interact with your device", in Linux they're two different things.
firefox might take some time to open because it is a flatpak, they need some time to start up just like a docker container, they are container (self contained "virtual machines" that contain most of what they need to run) they are also sandboxed so they need permission to access your mic/gpu/folders, if you install the native fedora version (what bazzite is based on) it would probably open faster but idk how a immutable distro would take it
Thank you for the suggestion. I did wonder that myself but it's the only flatpak app I have that does it, or at least that's noticeable. I've tried just leaving it after first click and I can literally go make a coffee and it's still not opened. I also tried the appimage version and that does the same. I think it's something weird with my setup as no one else that I've spoken to has the problem but then the other browsers installed through flatpak open instantly. While writing this I realised I should try and open it via the console and see what it spits out!
Internally Flatpak uses a modified version of bwrap for it's containerisation, which is actually rather light. It mostly just creates a virtual filesystem and becomes an intermediate for some system interfacing. This is actually quite lightweight, resembling chroot but being more flexible and easy to set up. Flatpak does use it's own runtimes, but on my server I use base bwrap and the base OS as the 'runtime'.
I currently dual boot windows and Ubuntu due to the programs I do use aren't compatible with Linux, no matter what workaround I use. I'm not 100% away from Windows, but I'm getting there.
I was considering doing the same but thankfully found alternatives of anything I couldn't get working. What programs have been sticking points for you?
My only gripe with Bazzite is that it doesn't generate a boot menu that would allow to easily dual boot into Windows or other installed OS. Other than that, solid choice IMO
I already had windows installed when I did my install as dual boot. It belongs to a basic text list at startup to select between them. Not sure if it would do that if Bazzite was first but does the job. Saying that, I've not been back over to Windows for weeks!
I don't know specifically about those but I've been running lots on there (some in the video) and newer stuff like Space Marine 2. I haven't tried those but I'll see what I can find 🙂
2:20 This is one of the many KDE annoyances I have. We've been telling the devs in the forums to turn this feature off by default. But they refuse to do so. You shouldn't have to do this but: Open System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor → Uncheck "Enable Shake to Find Cursor" → Apply.
I think it wouldn't be a big deal having it on by default if KDE's settings weren't scattered like crazy. I have to use the search bar for nearly everything in the KDE settings.
@@fortifyve I've never found any settings app to be usable without search. Not Windows. Especially not android. Atleast I'm lucky kde search is super quick unlike the other two
@RenderingUser That's one reason of many why I would recommend using GNOME over KDE any day of the week. It gets a lot of hate for no reason. It looks nicer, feels nicer to use, and well the settings app is pretty simple.
I'm on an Asus Rog Strix Scar, what did you have to mess with? On Bazzite I installed Asus Control Centre with a GUI and everything just worked with it. I think it's AsusCTL underneath the gui
@@ukGage I have the 2024 Zephyrus G14, so the slash lighting on the back was flashing very annoyingly and from what I could find, there isn't any real customization tools for it on linux yet. I was able to disable it eventually. And for some reason I had to restart my laptop a few times before the keyboard lighting & function keys would work.
Ah that's a shame. I was using openrgb for my laptop lighting but the Asus control centre gui worked for me and gave me better control. If you've not tried it already, it's from asus-linux.org/
Welcome to Linux Bazzite is one of the only distros I haven't tried. It looks pretty nice tho I'm partial to CachyOS personally as I've found I've had the least trouble in Arch based distros I guess my personal advice would be to stick with the one if you can lol
I've got an Asus Laptop and there's an unofficial Asus control centre that lets me switch performance modes so if you have an Asus Rog too, that should work. Otherwise, I'm not too sure!
TLP is a well-known battery optimisation program, but do mind that this uses a configuration file and the terminal. It can also break functionality by shutting the hardware down, so be mindful of that when trying this. Another way is to change the CPU and GPU scheduler to the powersave mode. The better desktop environments can change the CPU scheduler directly, under battery or power options. For changing the GPU too I like to use the CoreCtrl software, but other alternatives like LACT exist too. Depending on the system you can limit the battery charge level too, the better desktop environments can do this if you have the right dependencies installed. Before support was added I used to do this with TLP on my laptop, but other dedicated and easier to use tool might exist too. But this all depends on whether there exists Linux support for the laptop, Lenovo's tend to be supported but I have not checked other manufacturers.
I was primarily a Windows user, tried so many Linux distros, but if I’m being honest, it’s not for me. I then tried out macOS and deemed it a good alternative to windows. I wish game developers would support macOS.
It's good that there's realistic choices now, hopefully it will push all OS's to improve. What didn't you like about Linux? I couldn't stand MacOS, albeit it was a long while ago!
I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't heard rumors of Apple trying to capitalize on Windows 10 approaching its end of support date. If a comparatively smaller company like Steam can improve the gaming experience on an OS, one would assume it would be trivial for Apple.
I'm fresh off of windows too, my first switch was to bazzite as well. I found it lacking in some areas and it could have been inexperience though. I had issues getting GameScope to work in desktop mode with lutris. So older games that were locked at a lower resulted in a box in the corner of the screen. I have another system that acts as a media server, they were formatted in ntfs. I could never get the samba to work properly. The system played well as a console but kind of lacked overall as a desktop experience. I'm on manjaro now and it plays everything well. GameScope works as I need it. It seems to be the distro that I'm sticking with. Also when I do have to use the terminal while I learn, chatgpt has been great at walking me through stuff.
@@ukGage oh not all. I'm a star trek geek that plays bridge commander. The max size for the mod is 1080p. I couldnt get bazzite to upscale it to 1440 for my monitor. Gamescope is baked into bazzite but would only work in steam big picture mode for me. So when I opened lutris for Bridge Commander it would play at 1080 on my 1440 monitor, so up in the corner. Thats what manjaro seems to have fixed there. I also liked the KDE desktop and Manjaro has a KDE variant.
I've never played it, but I shall give it a try and see if it works now with the latest update. Not to give you a reason to switch, more for curiosity 🙂
Welcome to the Linux club too! Feel free to stick to it for now, but I will caution against Manjaro. I have used it for 2 years and can confirm their reputation for messing up the software they ship in questionable ways. They seem to be doing better as of late, but last I heard about them is them implementing telemetry with no clear reason. If your Manjaro system works for you, keep using it, as long as you are not going to make significant use of the AUR. But if you want to try some other Arch based thing, I can recommend Garuda Linux if you are already able to keep up with Manjaro's quirks maintenance. It's an Arch layer distro which makes significant tweaks from the kernel, filesystem and memory management to the desktop and themes. Said theme being a thing I do not like as much, but it's easy to change and for me turned out to be a good way into pushing me to theme my system in a way I like. EndeavourOS is a more conservative almost direct drop-in replacement from Manjaro, it is set up similarly but sticks to base Arch, which ironically is more stable than Manjaro. But my usual recommendation to newcomers is TuxedoOS or Linux Mint instead. I personally like TuxedoOS as a conservative but sensible Ubuntu derivative with Plasma 6 and use it as my secondary OS on machines I don't actively maintain. I never got along well with Linux Mint, but acknowledge that it can be a great start and stable experience, if you do not desire the newest software.
Windows 11 is a no go, yes. Just wanted to mention that there might be reasons to use windows, like kernel anticheat or proprietary software/hardware. It is absolutely an option to keep a single purpose windows install on a separate disk or partition and dual boot. Just dont use it for anything else. Refind for EFI systems is the best graphical boot manager. If you want it hardcore, go gpu passthrough and kvm based virtual windows.
I do still have a small windows partition which was my full install from before that I've since removed everything. I'm planning to delete it and reclaim the space but worried the boot manager will fail. It's weird being so new, fun though 😁
@ukGage its relatively easy to repair the windows bootmanager. I use this to transfer windows installs to other computers or revive backups. Basically you need a small fat32 partition and boot from windows setup disk or Hirens BootCD. "Bcdboot c:/windows /s d: /f UEFI" does the job. Use backslash for the path. Cant find it on my phone, wtf. D: is the small fat32 partition. Identify correct one. And btw, you can use a small efi partition for windows and a larger one for linux. Gnome-disk-utility is your friend. Backup and restore linux and windows partitions is easy.
I installed Marvel Rivals today, it's great! Blatant rip off of Overwatch though 🤣 It's all running in Ultra with no probs. My lot play Fortnite on their Playstation/Xbox so that covers it off at least 😁
@@ukGage :D it's about the packaging format which Bazzite uses for Firefox. Just use something new like Zen (It's looking similiar to Arc browser (which is based on Chromium and doesn't work on GNU/Linux)) and it's Firefox based. Also it's pretty fast and getting updates very often.
Fixing the mouse problem is very easy. Open the settings app and then search for accessibility and then shake cursor and then turn it off. As simple as that. This is kde's fault. Why did they enable this unnecessary feature by defualt? This is neither bazzite's fault nor fedora's.
I don't find Bazzite annoying at all! I'm loving it so far. What were your annoyances with it that made you switch? I'm not against trying other distros but as a newbie, I'm not sure what would make me switch over yet
@@ukGage you don't need to bazzite is great for gaming and newbies. Bazzite is immutable, and the standard on Linux is not. Immutable is new and it's good for new users and also reliable in terms of updates and backups. Somethings is hard on immutable but new users don't need anything with that. The things you can't do on Immutable is tinkering with system, customizing everything to your liking etc. You don't need another distro for advantage in gaming. Bazzite is great for it.
I just want to get back producing music and most of the daws work on windows. I want to get on reason 13 bandwagon lol of course this will be on my steam deck
Been daily driving Linux for over a year now. have done bit of hopping around and have finally landed on NixOS which is an immutable distro also but you can install what ever you want on it you just put it all into a config file and it sets up and installs everything for you and I have mine set to auto update every night while I sleep and it ONLY restarts when the kernel updates. I run the unstable channel which is REALLY stable so IMO they need to rename to "Rolling" or something because even the "unstable" channel is stable. Linux has alot stigmas tied to it that frankly are untrue now days and are mostly just talking points passed on from people to other people that stand to lose ALOT of money if Linux takes over on the desktop because they already lost the server market to Linux decades ago and the desktop is the ONLY platform Windows has control over and when and if it loses the Desktop market or takes a serious hit they stand to lose alot of money.
Great to hear another success story with the switch. I agree with you about "what people say", it's why I said it in my video, so many people tried to put me off buy an the reasons they gave simply were false. It's possible it's been years since they've tried I suppose if I'm giving them done benefit of doubt! Ultimately, I think it's great that everyone has more of a choice now 😁
Yeah I've been using Heroic for testing but EAC games still don't work. There's lots of documentation on it and I tested it with Fortnite just in case 😁
I'm having similar issues with Fallout 4. I've found that setting up a Bottle for the game, and installing MO2 in that with the game sort of works. I'm using the GoG version of Fallout 4. I still can't get it to grab links from Nexus, but the mods can be downloaded and added manually. Which of course breaks potential updates from within MO2. As person above pointed out, there is a new Vortex being worked on with Linux support, but it only does Cyberpunk 2077 & Sims4 so far, though I've not checked on it in a while.
I don't understand why people think fall guys won't work ? 1 month after steamdeck led came out they had a proton update with correct anti cheat linux version played it years on my steam deck , few call of dutys, pub g , fortnite valorent still don't work and gta 5 recent update added anti cheat so online in gta 5 no longer works only single player
I'm an Arch Linux user and I don't like distros like Bazzite OS bcz it's coming with A LOT OF BLOATWARE. You can configure Arch Linux in your own way, but Bazzite is just a ready-to-go distro....
I'm an Arch user as well, I prefer how stripped down it is and making it my own as well. That isn't for everyone, though. Distros like Bazzite are great for user adoption of desktop Linux. Some people just want a good out of the box experience with minimal steps. Getting people to use Linux is important, then people can decide if they want to learn more or not as time goes on.
As long as it does not auto-start or has lengthy update processes, bloat matters very little and can help newcomers in getting started with the system. If desired it can be un-installed too, unless it is part of the immutable core, which is one of the reasons I do not recommend such distro's. This is commented from the 'bloated' Garuda Linux layer-distro built on Arch Linux directly (so it adds it's own repositories on top of the base Arch ones).
Interesting. This has not been my experience, since my G29 wheel just worked right away. Installing a more responsive driver for my G29 was surprisingly painless with DMKS and has not caused further issues yet. I assume the community drivers for other manufacturers will be similar. Oversteer is a good enough troubleshooting utility too, I also wrote a script using it to centre my wheel on initialisation. I do need BeamNG's Vulkan renderer for good performance on my ageing system. But that is because Linux has let me postpone a hardware update for over 2 years by running lighter. The DX11 version runs seamlessly through DXVK, but on larger maps my old 4C/4T CPU struggles with the extra overhead. What was finicky is getting the game to work over two uneven screens, by making a KDE window rule for it. Though automating this seems way harder if not impossible on Windows, so I can't complain. And once set up it just launches correctly each time, though I do have to bypass the launcher with arguments or operate it blindly with the keyboard. Generating a LUT to make my G29 feel actually decent was extremely finicky as I needed to use older runtimes to make the tools work. But I managed to do it anyway and the containerisation provides good piece of mind with running random tools from the internet for this. I don't think most Windows users even bother, but this made me stop desiring an upgrade for my G29 wheel for now. The low FFB deadzone is completely cancelled out by the LUT and the wheel gets detected properly by all the Windows programs I tried. Other steering wheels might be more finicky. I read about having to install parts of the Windows driver to some game's compatdata folders for it to detect the Linux driver. And I don't know how reliable the other community drivers are, but while missing features often they work seamlessly. Most games should just work, but you can check ProtonDB of course.
@WyvernDotRed With regards to sim racing, it really does depend on your wheel hardware. Logitech wheels, at least the G25/G27/G29/G920/G923 are all supported directly in the kernel. But Thrustmaster wheels often require a reversed engineered driver to function in most cases. A large amount of other sim racing hardware as well, some of it works in Linux, some doesnt, or some require a lot of setup to get functional. I am a sim racer as well, and I unfortunately also have to stick with Windows for using my sim hardware currently. I have a 2tb nvme SSD with windows on it. Only other thing I use Windows for is in regard to video capture, as my Elgato 4Kpro capture card and HDpro capture cards do not work under Linux. So I have a dedicated windows machine just for that purpose.
@@SongDesire mostly accurate, but as mentioned in the above comment, I changed the included Logitech driver out for another community driver. This since the included driver has less detailed force feedback and lacks features, though many other community drivers might be incomplete too. Specifically replacing the included hid-logitech driver with new-lg4ff, which like the Thurstmaster and Fanatek community drivers is a DKMS package. Having to know to replace the included driver for better force feedback arguably being a worse experience than installing one to make it work at all. Compatibility of hardware indeed is spotty, only some Fanatek, Thrustmaster and all Logitech wheels work, missing some features. But when supported the process of installing is the same, using sudo dkms install [location], followed with sudo update-initramfs -u if the distro has no package to do this for you. This is also why I do not recommend image based distro's, installing a dkms driver on them requires modifying the base image. After the greater effort of unlocking the filesystem and hoping that it can still manage itself normally, it finally works gets deleted again on system updates of such imaged distro's. Unsupported hardware certainly is a valid reason for keeping Windows around, until said hardware has been naturally replaced with more compatible equipment. Keeping Windows contained to it's own SSD is good practise, since it does not really like to work nicely alongside a Linux system on the same drive. Similarly Elgato hardware is unsupported, if existing the community drivers lacking functionality, like with some steering wheels. Feature support being another solid reason of keeping Windows around. It is what it is for now, but after switching or considering to switch in the future, new hardware purchases can be made with Linux in mind.
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Thanks, I actually really love that feature though! It's a funny one and also I think it could come in really useful when doing videos to highlight a point. I do it a couple points in the video by accident and noticed when editing.
That's odd, it shouldn't state that it's immutable as its based off fedora kinoite. Dw atomic and immutables are very similar. They both apply updates in a stable and secure manner so don't expect it to break ANYTIME soon (it's usually what fucks up on linux)
@ukGage yep, even if it does break it's got a rollback system after updates and important shit. But I'd back up just in case something DOES happen thats irreversible
You install the battle net launcher through Lutris. I can't remember what the exact guide was that I followed but a quick Google found me this isn't that looks to be similar to what I did www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/install-world-of-warcraft-in-linux
Flatpaks are a user space 'runtime' environment. Think of them as a little 'virtual machine' that only runs flatpak apps and sits on top of your main system. The 'runtime' environment even has its own version of your NIVIDA drivers or MESA for AMD and Intel. See, Linux isn't that hard is it. I've been using it for well over 20 years ( not used Windows in 10 ), well entrenched now..... no mate, nothing to say to you, you're doing all right on your own, kudos to ya. Good video.
Thanks for the Flatpak explanation, that's really clear for me. I'm getting there! I'm lucky to be at a time with it I think where there's lots of support online
I have Linux a fair chance. Tried mint, bazzite, cachy os, and Nobara. While they play games they just don't perform like windows. Especially if you have ray tracing involved. And some games like stalker 2 have no controller support as it uses a new Microsoft input that Linux can't use. Lot of hoops for less performance. Not worth it. But it has potential.
Everything I've played so far has played the same or better. I'm sure it's not good to be the case for everything of course. I haven't tried anything with ray tracing yet, I should give that a test for sure. Same for controller, all worked straight from install so far. My experience has been no hoops to jump through, I think the Bazzite install takes care of most of the up front work and I'm having far less issues than I was with Windows both performance and bugs
These videos never provide an argument to leave a custom version of Windows for Linux. Only stock Windows. Every one knows stock Windows is awful. But ReviOS is one method of fixing almost every issue you have with windows. Super clean and minimal and never bothers you.
Appreciate the like, op. I've tried numerous Linux distros but I keep failing to see the benefits that compensate for dealing with wine/proton file waste and messes, and the incompatibility. Even if Linux eventually can run 90% of the software perfectly, I'm always going to find prefix folder stuff maddening. I just keep returning to one of these open source playbook Windows cleaners. I've been someone who's run customized Windows distros since XP though. Back when it was risky to do so.
Correct, it's talking about why I moved from Windows 11 to Linux. I've used Revi before and a few of the other Tiny / Stripped versions and my issue was the same with each - after installing the latest security update, you have to strip it again and everything comes back - has that changed?
@@ukGage yeah I love his stuff too. And yes you are supposed to keep windows updates turned off, then enabled them and let them run right before a new playbook update. I've never understood the argument that if windows update is such a headache, why not disable it for maybe 6 months? If you are really afraid of some vulnerability you can just manually download that update off the site if you want, and ignore the rest
As I said in the video. It's not for everyone, the same as revi and the Tony's also aren't for everyone. It's not about making an argument to switch, it's giving an option as someone entirely new to the software as there is a big stigma around how difficult going to Linux is. No arguments, just options and my own personal experience aimed at a standard user.
A 4090 laptop isn't going to be efficiently cooled. When it gets hot, it has no choice but to thermally throttle or shut down. Get better performance out out of a 3070ti desktop.
Thanks for all the comments so far, I've got plenty of notes of things to try and have already learnt lots more 💙
I have been gaming with linux for almost 3 years now. I don't think i have logged into winnows in at least a year and a half.
Thank you, that's really encouraging. If I didn't have the elgato bits and my Beacn mic, I don't think I'd ever even need a VM for windows. I'm really really impressed with it.
Have you had any game not work for you in that time?
@ukGage I've been using Linux exclusively for ~2 years, and the only games I couldn't run natively were MapleStory and Destiny 2. At this point, the only thing holding back Linux gaming is if a publisher actively decides to disallow linux. The popular anti cheat solutions all with with Linux now, but sadly a lot of studios just can't be bothered with what effectively amounts to just sending one email. The only gaming related problem that's actually Linux's "fault" is VR support. VR on Linux is sadly still a horrible mess that only works once in a blue moon.
@@ukGage some games required some tweaking like using different versions of proton or using some commands in their launcher but most games run right out of the box . I don't really run any games that use any anti cheat software though from what I hear to get those games to work under linux will take many hoops to jump though and might still not work lol. usually though a good google search will lead to a reddit post or youtube video that will get ya up and running
@@TechKnowCat I don't play games with vanguard, so I'm going to try Linux cachyOS today, any tips for playing games with Linux? It is my first time
It seems so far the only anti cheats that don't work are the kernel level anti cheats (e.g. Fortnite) - I was playing Marvel Rivals yesterday which only came out this month and has anti cheat, literally installed it with Steam and it just worked
Well, you just gained another sub. Welcome to land of the Penguin. It might not always be smooth sailing but its rewarding. I've been maining Linux for about 15 years.
Thank you very much 😁
Switched to Pop!_OS 5-6 weeks ago, and everything has been so smooth that I’ve never felt the need to go back to Windows for any of my usual tasks.
The only exceptions are for more demanding games, where Windows performs better, and VR. Other than that, the minimal UI and the fact that everything "just works" (unlike 5 years ago) have been a pleasant surprise. Proton has also been a game-changer for enjoying Linux this time around.
No more skipping product ads after OS updates, no cluttered menus-just a clean and efficient experience.
Which demanding games are you flicking back for? I think the most demanding thing I play is Warhammer 40k and it runs brilliantly. I don't really play anything VR other than occasionally on my sons oculus but that's all built in so simple enough.
Glad it's going well for you, Pop was one of the ones I had on my list to choose between.
I was surprised as well how everything just works. You hear lots about how complicated it is or how nothing works.
@ukGage Heavy fps games such as ready or not, arma 3, Delta force and quite a few racing games are not running well for me on Linux. But being more into indie games recently I don't really mind that much.. and it doesn't take long to reboot into Windows if needed.
Thanks, I've not tried a racing game yet. Will give one a go
@@ukGage The ones I play (mainly from the old pre-EA codemasters) work just great. Some older ones had issues on newer windows versions but not on linux
I see a lot of new users going with Bazzite for the gaming, I've never used it but it certainly seems to be impressing people. I think this coming year is going to be very hype for Linux gaming.
Yeah I went off some Googling and took a chance to be honest. It's great 😁
@@ukGage You made an excellent choice. Bazzite has to be the best OOB experience for gaming on Linux currently and comes with the advantage of being able to turn a HTPC into a SteamOS console, which I'm gonna be doing soon.
The mouse issue u mentioned in 2:40 is a feature (im not trolling lol) and can be disabled in Settings -> Accessibility -> Shake Cursor
Thanks, I actually love the mouse growth. I don't think I articulated it properly, I think it's funny as I shake my mouse why I'm frustrated with something (in this case, Firefox not opening) so the frustration was with Firefox not the mouse growth. I find it really funny🤣
@@ukGage You can actually get your mouse to be the size of your screen if you keep shaking it
Haha brilliant!
@@ukGage The mouse shake thing is a novel way in KDE (desktop) of being able to find your mouse if you 'lose' it anywhere on your screen(s). Just shake it and there it is! 😆
I showed it to my youngest and every time he comes near my PC he starts shaking the mouse now 🤣
I used linux (nobara) for 3/4 months and had a really good experience overall, all the singleplayer games I was playing worked flawlessly. Then i was trying to play some multiplayer games with my friends, and the experience began to break down.
Ive switched back to windows for now but i follow the linux gaming scene with anticipation to see when i can go back to linux
What games weren't working for you? I've been playing WoW and Minecraft online and had no problems but they do have very specific ways of doing multiplayer
I never have issues with Multiplayer games.. Curious to know what games.
Using linux is like discovering Windows XP when you were a kid, except the novelty never wears off.
I've recently made the switch completely. Hosting pretty much everything on a proper built server and then running everything else through ChromeOS thin clients. I do all my gaming through a Linux VM over the network now, everything is wired and it's so much more efficient. Every device in the house is now a pick up and go, whether I'm at my desktop or on the tablet/laptop, everything is exactly the same. Linux is doing the hard work for everything.
Sounds like a very interesting setup! If you have time, could you let me know what tools you've used to do the sharing? It'd be great to be able to game upstairs without moving everything about.
@@ukGage The short version is I bought a second hand threadripper pro, built myself an AI cluster with a pair of RTX A5000 cards, using Proxmox as the host OS/hypervisor and then discovered the hard way that running games through an LXC with multiple GPUs doesn't work very well.
I've just put in an Arc B580 as well, which I feed through PCIe passthrough into the VM that's used for gaming. Sometimes I'll use the VM as a remote play steam host, other times i'll just play directly in the VM. Not much in it, other than some games run fine using network play on native Steam and others work better being played through the VM itself.
Proxmox is brilliant for this kind of thing. It's also running my media server, network storage and a bunch of other things through containers, all of which I can run as and when are required. Setting up the gaming VM was probably the hardest part of it to be honest, and that's only because of my hardware choices and original use case. Fortunately I picked a board with enough PCIe to run 3 GPUs. If I didn't need both of the A5000s for actual work grunt, I'd have used one of them for the VM. Actually I'd probably have set up virtual GPUs and split each A5000 onto a few VMs, but that's the flexibility you get with Proxmox.
Every client device in my house is now a ChromeOS device, though bare Linux would work just as well. I mainly went with Chromebooks/a Chromebox because I'm integrated into the Google ecosystem and like having the phone hub. If I wasn't bothered about that, I'd be running Linux on all of my client devices instead.
Well you've got a new sub, and I've been using GNU/Linux Distros, since 1994.
Welcome to the club
Thanks very much 🙂
Someone else may have already mentioned this, but the reason for the memory showing as only 30.5 GB is because the rest is dedicated to the Radeon graphics. You may be able to change how much gets dedicated in the firmware (BIOS, really EFI) on your laptop.
Aha that makes sense, thanks!
Good to see another convert. Bazzite & the other uBlue distros are now my go to recommendation for new users. I run it on my Steam Deck and living room PC to keep things simple. Otherwise i'm one of those annoying Arch users.
Also Satisfactory is such a superb game.
The memory difference in the status page is down to sales people. Gigabytes used to be 1024MB, but sales people said that was too complicated, and hijacked GB making it 1000MB.
So someone had the idea to create GiB or Gibibytes, at 1024MiB.
Not too confusing or complicated at all, especially as most people don't know that the b/B at the end has different meanings too. Lowercase for Bits, and upper for Bytes.
Thank you for attending my Ted Talk 😂
Aha that's great, thank you!
My son has a Steam Deck, I did put windows on it for a while as I thought it would be easier for him but he's back on SteamOS and is probably better at using it than me already at 8 years old! I might actually try it on there for him, thank you!
@@ukGage It works out very similar to SteamOS but with a choice of desktops. As it's touch screen Gnome is my choice there. Otherwise you know what it can do over SteamOS.
A man of culture, Illidan wallpaper. My WoW performance is usually better on Linux vs W11 of late.
He's fantastic 🤣 I misread that the first time as the illidan wallpaper making my game perform better.. and maybe it is? 🤣
Yeah it runs miles better for me, especially when recording. It's not even close when I'm in a group with lots of casters
I have been gaming on Linux for a couple of years now. Have been using Garuda (arch based) Opensuse Tumbleweed, Aurora (KDE version of bluefin (fedora) and now Bazzite for four months. Gaming has been flawless for me. I havent booted into windows for a year now for gaming. Only time is if I want to test hardware with cinebench and stuff. I finally chose Bazzite because it had all the gaming stuff ready, I just installed GoG- Amazon- and Epic games in Heroic launcher and the rest in Steam just like in Windows, no tinkering needed - just install games and play (I dont play online FPS games anyway, which I understand has problems with Linux/anti cheats) . I like the immutable way. Mainly because I dont do any heavy linux stuff, just want things to work. Only one minor thing is, for me who always put my desktop-PC to sleep mode when done, is that there is no notification when Bazzite does background updates (because you have to restart computer for them to activate) So I manually reboot the system once a week, not a big deal really but it would be nice with a notification. Anyway, I believe my distro hopping days are over, not to speak of Windows days :)
That's great! The more I read the happier that I am that I picked Bazzite. I had a list down to three and pretty much guessed at the end 🤣
Welcome ❤❤
Thank you 😁
Thats great ! I've been using linux for 5 years now (mainly dev work, not gaming) and a year ago tried it on Thinkpad P1 and P16 which have nvidia workstation cards and i can safely say those work very well with quadro drivers, no issues on both X11 and wayland, though they arent as good for gaming as geforce cards obviously, glad you gave linux a chance. Using windows i spend more time fighting it than actually working on it (especially windows 11). If im ever using windows in the future it would be for that single piece of software only
Great to hear all these great experiences from people giving it a try. Yeah it's a shame with Windows, the latest versions of 11 are really poor. I still use it daily for work as the company I work for (like most) use Windows so I'll still have a view of it hopefully for if things get better. Ideally they all keep improving and it makes better OS's already
@@ukGage btw I have a tip for you :
If you want to remove the password prompt every time you open virtual machine manager you can add your user to the "libvirt" group. There's also a better screen recorder than OBS in my opinion, you should definitely give it a try, its called GPU screen recorder, its on flathub so just use discover to install it. I tried it on an Intel i5 8th gen, and the CPU usage was 5%, using the integrated GPU instead, it leaves the system extremely snappy, and while gaming almost no performance loss
Amd GPUs work better with linux. But Nvidia has gotten alot better. Hopefully amd makes more advantage gaming laptops next year.
Yeah I was told that before I started and wasn't sure how much of a problem I'd have but the Nvidia drivers are great. The only thing that hasn't worked so far for me has been Waydroid
Still learning so possibly but there's a line in the readme for it that flat out says it doesn't work with Nvidia unfortunately
AMD GPU's function better by default, as the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia is just not great. But once you install the correct Nvidia proprietary driver for your distro and GPU, it tends to beat out AMD. Especially in productivity tasks.
On the AMD side, the mesa driver by default is great, but if you want even better gaming performance you need to install the RADV driver and make sure it is set to run (I have an RX6600 in one of my computers running Arch Linux). If you want to do productivity tasks with GPU acceleration, you often need to use the proprietary AMDPRO driver and make sure it is set up to run properly.
Everyone likes to make out AMD just works on Linux, but there is FAR more to it.
One of the things that made me cautious was many posts about Nvidia being bad on Reddit and the like but it looks like fairly recent updates have helped. So far, touch wood, everything I use works fine with mine!
@@ukGage Nvidia worked great in Xorg X11 for a really long time, but in the last couple of years there has been a lot of movement towards Wayland. This is what caused a lot of the more recent issues with Nvidia GPU's. These issues with Nvidia and Wayland have largely been resolved now due to Nvidia driver updates and working better alongside the open source community in general. Nvidia tends to run great on Wayland now. Some distros do require manual setup for kernel module loading for Nvidia GPUs, some do it automatically. Bazzite, and other distros that have a dedicated Nvidia version, all have everything set up correctly out of the box. If you were to use say Arch Linux as an example, you would have to do everything yourself to set it up right. I imagine a lot of the complaints about Nvidia not working are mostly due to people using distros like Arch where it is a fully manual set up of the proprietary drivers to work correctly.
There is currently an open source Mesa Nvidia driver (NVK) in the works as well, but it is still early days yet. The hope is that the default Linux experience will be improved on Nvidia one the NVK driver is implemented. I would imagine some things would still be locked behind the proprietary driver. But that is the same for Intel GPU drivers on Linux, as well as AMD GPU drivers. They all keep a little something back that needs some form of proprietary implementation.
This is a fun watch! Thanks!
Thanks very much 🙂
I first touched a computer in 1992 at 10 years old. It was a 486 running Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22. I was a Windows user up until 2019. I had dabbled with Linux through the years, but it was 2019 when I fully moved over, to Arch Linux, no less, no more dual booting. I only have a dual-boot to Windows 11 now to use Xenia. Once Xenia matures enough, I'll have no use for Windows at all. Best move I've made.
@@JamesRichardsPlays just get an rgh 360 !
Great to hear all the stories of long term users!
From 14 to 35 I used windows after 3 years on linux I still get giddy when I think about the fact I don't need windows anymore, im on fedora, it's a little work to set up but it's amazing
Really enjoying it so far!
so happy to see more people doing the switch, i sadly still have win10 (i tried win11, i never wiped a drive so fast, that piece of trash that pretends to be an os should not exist) on my main pc cause i work with audio (mix, master and production) and the last time i tried ableton and some vsts were having a nice bit of trouble, so my work still requires windows as much as i wish it didnt, might try again some day, switching to waveform for my daw and trying to do the whole yabridge thing to see if they work better than in full wine, but in the meanwhile at least i still have linux on my laptop and i love it, i am more of a tinker with stuff linux user so i love to just grab my laptop and try some new stuff, do the whole "linux user installing a web browser meme" and stuff, at this moment i'm on bedrock linux (fedora, ubuntu and arch stratas) and it's one of the best setups i've had, very fun and working pretty well
I nearly just went back to Windows 10, glad I made the switch though. Hopefully music production catches up for you, there's a few others talking about it in the comments and also still dual boot
Congratulations for making the switch! X3
Thanks 😁
@@ukGage yes!
Wow, this is an amazing video :D Spoken from the heart with honest opinions and I am so glaad we have another new Linux gamer in our ranks!!!
In the case of Minecraft Java running better, this is likelly down to the OpenGL and MESA drivers being more uptodate and optimised than the versions used on Windows!
Thank you! Looking forward to learning more!
With Firefox turn off hardware acceleration in the browsers settings. For some reason, it freaks out on Linux with an Nvidia GPU with hardware acceleration turned on atm.
Thank you, I'll give this a try 🙂
I like your DnD collection.
Thank you, I need to get playing again to be honest!
Welcome to linux enjoy the control it gives you and yes you might encounter issues but it's worth it .
I've been using linux since 2012 but only switched full time year ago and never looked back specially now with all the ai stuff recall and buggy windows updates and lack of control don't regret my choice.
I distro hopped at first encountered bugs and problem's but with a bit of research and work i learn how to fix issue's and configure my os the way i like it and want to use it.
I mostly do gaming and web browsing on my gaming pc so i went with cachy os because there kernel is really great and there nvidia support is also great as for the desktop environment i chose cinnamon it comes bare bones but i installed everything i need and now it's perfect.
That's what linux is freedom to do what you want.
People always say ah this and that don't work but they don't understand that linux is different then windows i doesn't hold your hand to do what you want but sometimes all it takes is a bit of research and the will to do the work and learn.
It's been almost flawless for me so far, really happy with it. And to be fair, Bazzite has held my hand quite well as a newbie! :D
The shaking mouse thing is actually a feature, for when the cursor goes lost 😀
Yeah it's great! Every time I get frustrated I shake my mouse so when it goes massive it makes me laugh 🤣
Hello. There are a lot of comments so maybe someone already told you but you can disable the cursor growing when shaking in the accessibility settings.
Thanks. A few people have said but I really like it. My frustration was with Firefox being crap 🤣
More people playing on Linux , Greetings!
Thank you!
gaming on linux is awesome now a days... if there's any problems it's usually my hardware being underpowered now instead if it being software issues. :D
That's good to hear. I'm having a very smooth experience so far, hopefully it continues!
I did everything on my main machine on Windows almost 10 years ago. Then, I went to Linux for everything except art, photo manipulation, video editing and certain games that proton didn't play well. Then Proton got better and I could use it for gaming 100% of the time. Then I started using Kdenlive and Davinci resolve instead of Vegas so I started using Linux for editing 100% of the time. Then I realized that GIMP was better for me than Photoshop so now I use Linux for that 100% of the time. Then I found out that Krita was the best for my needs and now I used Linux for art 100% of the time. Then I realized there was zero purpose for Windows to take up any drive space and I uninstalled it and now I use Linux 100% of the time.
For some people with very special use cases 100% switches won't be possible, but for most people who just browse the web and play emulated games and the odd FPS, a 100% switch is possible after a bit of acclimation.
That's great! I got to the same conclusion as you about Krita, really like it. I found kdenlive after I did this video and think it's great. I love resolve but having to convert my files after recording in OBS is a bit of a pain so finding Kdenlive and seeing that it can read my files is great.
If you have any recommendations for me for apps to try let me know please!
@@ukGage For photo manipulation I always recommend darktable. You can set rules for each camera and different settings on that camera, like the ISO or lens used (based on EXIF information) so it runs a set of effects and filters automatically at the time of import, like lens correction, noise reduction, hot pixels deletion, etc
You can try waydroid, I don't think it runs Out of the box on bazzite (as you may need to break out of the inmutable situation to change your kernel and manage LXC stuff) but it lets you run a whole android container (not an emulator) that integrates to some degree to your desktop environment and can use your whole GPU/CPU natively (you can even install a translation layer like libndk or libhoudini to run arm apps and games)
Helvum, qpwgraph and other are also cool tools, you can have a whole patchbay to connect your audio/midi/video streams between apps, devices and virtual devices however you like with full control over it.
And for VR on the oculus, try ALVR. It might just work first try but your mileage will, most likely, vary. A lot.
I wouldn't call myself a Linux expert, but I have been using Linux for a couple of years now and from my perspective it is really weird that you are doing a video talking about Linux with only 3 weeks experience with it. However, I do like you feedback on the subject, I personally just dual boot, but everybody does what works better for them, right? About those software for your hardware (the steam decks and the periferals software), did you try running them with wine?
Why is it weird? The whole video is about me as a new user making the switch and giving feedback of my experience in making the switch. Subject experience should never be gatekept, there are experiences and points of view that are relevant at different stages of learning.
Yes, they don't work. Did plenty of research as well as testing. There's some good alternatives out there 🙂 Someone much cleverer and more experienced than I may get them working at some point
You can't use WINE like that. Its a user space translation layer and does not have direct access to the Linux Kernel. Therefore "Windows drivers" in WINE don't have access to the hardware and only work with the NT Kernel. If you want supported hardware when running Linux buy supported Linux hardware, it'll be plug and play. "Drivers" is a Windows thing ( apart from NVIDIA ).
Note: Don't confuse "drivers" with "software to interact with your device", in Linux they're two different things.
firefox might take some time to open because it is a flatpak, they need some time to start up just like a docker container, they are container (self contained "virtual machines" that contain most of what they need to run) they are also sandboxed so they need permission to access your mic/gpu/folders, if you install the native fedora version (what bazzite is based on) it would probably open faster but idk how a immutable distro would take it
Thank you for the suggestion. I did wonder that myself but it's the only flatpak app I have that does it, or at least that's noticeable. I've tried just leaving it after first click and I can literally go make a coffee and it's still not opened. I also tried the appimage version and that does the same. I think it's something weird with my setup as no one else that I've spoken to has the problem but then the other browsers installed through flatpak open instantly.
While writing this I realised I should try and open it via the console and see what it spits out!
And that's got the tip on installing the native version, I think I can do that via the console so will give that a whirl too 🙂
@@ukGage You can install it with rpm-ostree to avoid the flatpak. But you are on an indomitable distro, shouldn't complain about indomitable features.
There's not a single complaint about that in the entire video, in fact, I say how much it suits me especially right now at the end 🙂
Internally Flatpak uses a modified version of bwrap for it's containerisation, which is actually rather light.
It mostly just creates a virtual filesystem and becomes an intermediate for some system interfacing.
This is actually quite lightweight, resembling chroot but being more flexible and easy to set up.
Flatpak does use it's own runtimes, but on my server I use base bwrap and the base OS as the 'runtime'.
I currently dual boot windows and Ubuntu due to the programs I do use aren't compatible with Linux, no matter what workaround I use. I'm not 100% away from Windows, but I'm getting there.
I was considering doing the same but thankfully found alternatives of anything I couldn't get working. What programs have been sticking points for you?
My only gripe with Bazzite is that it doesn't generate a boot menu that would allow to easily dual boot into Windows or other installed OS. Other than that, solid choice IMO
I already had windows installed when I did my install as dual boot. It belongs to a basic text list at startup to select between them. Not sure if it would do that if Bazzite was first but does the job. Saying that, I've not been back over to Windows for weeks!
@@ukGage I guess they fixed it since the last time I installed it, nice 🙂
Can you run any Windows game on this? Battlefield 2042, arma reforger, Insurgency sandstorm?
I don't know specifically about those but I've been running lots on there (some in the video) and newer stuff like Space Marine 2. I haven't tried those but I'll see what I can find 🙂
2:20 This is one of the many KDE annoyances I have. We've been telling the devs in the forums to turn this feature off by default. But they refuse to do so. You shouldn't have to do this but: Open System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor → Uncheck "Enable Shake to Find Cursor" → Apply.
I love it! But I can see why some people wouldn't to be fair 🤣
It's not an annoyance it's literally an accessibility feature. Something Linux needs more of
I think it wouldn't be a big deal having it on by default if KDE's settings weren't scattered like crazy. I have to use the search bar for nearly everything in the KDE settings.
@@fortifyve I've never found any settings app to be usable without search. Not Windows. Especially not android. Atleast I'm lucky kde search is super quick unlike the other two
@RenderingUser That's one reason of many why I would recommend using GNOME over KDE any day of the week. It gets a lot of hate for no reason. It looks nicer, feels nicer to use, and well the settings app is pretty simple.
Switched to Garuda KDE Dragonized last night. While there is a bit of wonkiness (thanks Asus laptop), overall a great initial impression.
I'm on an Asus Rog Strix Scar, what did you have to mess with? On Bazzite I installed Asus Control Centre with a GUI and everything just worked with it. I think it's AsusCTL underneath the gui
@@ukGage I have the 2024 Zephyrus G14, so the slash lighting on the back was flashing very annoyingly and from what I could find, there isn't any real customization tools for it on linux yet. I was able to disable it eventually. And for some reason I had to restart my laptop a few times before the keyboard lighting & function keys would work.
Ah that's a shame. I was using openrgb for my laptop lighting but the Asus control centre gui worked for me and gave me better control. If you've not tried it already, it's from asus-linux.org/
Welcome to Linux
Bazzite is one of the only distros I haven't tried. It looks pretty nice tho
I'm partial to CachyOS personally as I've found I've had the least trouble in Arch based distros
I guess my personal advice would be to stick with the one if you can lol
Thank you! Quite a few people have mentioned CachyOS, certainly enough to make me want to take a look 😁
Welcome to freedom!
I believe there is a way to control the stream decks.... I believe it requires some sort of docker container....
I'll do some more digging, thanks! I've found 3 programs that work with them so far with varying degrees of customisation 🙂
Fall Guys work on Linux, they have enabled support
Yeah a few people have said, that's great, always a fun one 😁 Thank you!
Can i limit my battery when using linux? Because i your spec using laptop
I've got an Asus Laptop and there's an unofficial Asus control centre that lets me switch performance modes so if you have an Asus Rog too, that should work. Otherwise, I'm not too sure!
@ukGage i have laptop MSI btw, and thank you for the info
TLP is a well-known battery optimisation program, but do mind that this uses a configuration file and the terminal.
It can also break functionality by shutting the hardware down, so be mindful of that when trying this.
Another way is to change the CPU and GPU scheduler to the powersave mode.
The better desktop environments can change the CPU scheduler directly, under battery or power options.
For changing the GPU too I like to use the CoreCtrl software, but other alternatives like LACT exist too.
Depending on the system you can limit the battery charge level too, the better desktop environments can do this if you have the right dependencies installed.
Before support was added I used to do this with TLP on my laptop, but other dedicated and easier to use tool might exist too.
But this all depends on whether there exists Linux support for the laptop, Lenovo's tend to be supported but I have not checked other manufacturers.
I was primarily a Windows user, tried so many Linux distros, but if I’m being honest, it’s not for me. I then tried out macOS and deemed it a good alternative to windows. I wish game developers would support macOS.
It's good that there's realistic choices now, hopefully it will push all OS's to improve. What didn't you like about Linux? I couldn't stand MacOS, albeit it was a long while ago!
I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't heard rumors of Apple trying to capitalize on Windows 10 approaching its end of support date. If a comparatively smaller company like Steam can improve the gaming experience on an OS, one would assume it would be trivial for Apple.
RTX 4090 laptop running Bazzite is diabolical.
It's great 😁
I'm fresh off of windows too, my first switch was to bazzite as well. I found it lacking in some areas and it could have been inexperience though.
I had issues getting GameScope to work in desktop mode with lutris. So older games that were locked at a lower resulted in a box in the corner of the screen.
I have another system that acts as a media server, they were formatted in ntfs. I could never get the samba to work properly.
The system played well as a console but kind of lacked overall as a desktop experience.
I'm on manjaro now and it plays everything well. GameScope works as I need it. It seems to be the distro that I'm sticking with.
Also when I do have to use the terminal while I learn, chatgpt has been great at walking me through stuff.
Sounds like you're a much more advanced user than me. I mainly game, and do a bit of coding on mine. What things didn't work for you on Bazzite?
@@ukGage oh not all. I'm a star trek geek that plays bridge commander. The max size for the mod is 1080p. I couldnt get bazzite to upscale it to 1440 for my monitor. Gamescope is baked into bazzite but would only work in steam big picture mode for me. So when I opened lutris for Bridge Commander it would play at 1080 on my 1440 monitor, so up in the corner. Thats what manjaro seems to have fixed there. I also liked the KDE desktop and Manjaro has a KDE variant.
I've never played it, but I shall give it a try and see if it works now with the latest update. Not to give you a reason to switch, more for curiosity 🙂
Welcome to the Linux club too!
Feel free to stick to it for now, but I will caution against Manjaro.
I have used it for 2 years and can confirm their reputation for messing up the software they ship in questionable ways.
They seem to be doing better as of late, but last I heard about them is them implementing telemetry with no clear reason.
If your Manjaro system works for you, keep using it, as long as you are not going to make significant use of the AUR.
But if you want to try some other Arch based thing, I can recommend Garuda Linux if you are already able to keep up with Manjaro's quirks maintenance.
It's an Arch layer distro which makes significant tweaks from the kernel, filesystem and memory management to the desktop and themes.
Said theme being a thing I do not like as much, but it's easy to change and for me turned out to be a good way into pushing me to theme my system in a way I like.
EndeavourOS is a more conservative almost direct drop-in replacement from Manjaro, it is set up similarly but sticks to base Arch, which ironically is more stable than Manjaro.
But my usual recommendation to newcomers is TuxedoOS or Linux Mint instead.
I personally like TuxedoOS as a conservative but sensible Ubuntu derivative with Plasma 6 and use it as my secondary OS on machines I don't actively maintain.
I never got along well with Linux Mint, but acknowledge that it can be a great start and stable experience, if you do not desire the newest software.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I'm learning lots from all the comments
Notebook name and model?
It's an Asus Rog Strix Scar 17
Windows 11 is a no go, yes. Just wanted to mention that there might be reasons to use windows, like kernel anticheat or proprietary software/hardware. It is absolutely an option to keep a single purpose windows install on a separate disk or partition and dual boot. Just dont use it for anything else. Refind for EFI systems is the best graphical boot manager. If you want it hardcore, go gpu passthrough and kvm based virtual windows.
So far my only reasons are for firmware updates to my elgato stuff and Beacn mic. Doing all that through a mini VM when needed 🙂
@ukGage 👍👏 Thats what i meant.
I do still have a small windows partition which was my full install from before that I've since removed everything. I'm planning to delete it and reclaim the space but worried the boot manager will fail. It's weird being so new, fun though 😁
@ukGage its relatively easy to repair the windows bootmanager. I use this to transfer windows installs to other computers or revive backups. Basically you need a small fat32 partition and boot from windows setup disk or Hirens BootCD. "Bcdboot c:/windows /s d: /f UEFI" does the job. Use backslash for the path. Cant find it on my phone, wtf. D: is the small fat32 partition. Identify correct one. And btw, you can use a small efi partition for windows and a larger one for linux. Gnome-disk-utility is your friend. Backup and restore linux and windows partitions is easy.
That's brill, thanks very much 🙂
The only problem I have with bazzite is slow update in terminal ._.
As in updates for the OS or programs? It's the only one I've used so I have no comparison 🙂
@@ukGage Yes, rpm-ostree and ujust in terminal. It's so slow compared to update from other distro. Other than that I have no problem, it's great!
Wish Epic Games would support gaming on Linux.
Yeah, Fortnite is the one that my son wishes worked
I installed Marvel Rivals today, it's great! Blatant rip off of Overwatch though 🤣 It's all running in Ultra with no probs.
My lot play Fortnite on their Playstation/Xbox so that covers it off at least 😁
32:03
You care about frametime rather than framerate :D
No matter the rate, if the frametime is smooth, then the gameplay will feel smooth!
Exactly!
Firefox is coming pre-installed on almost all of the distros bcz it's the only biggest open source browser out there.
If I didn't have to open it multiple times to get it to show!
@@ukGage :D it's about the packaging format which Bazzite uses for Firefox.
Just use something new like Zen (It's looking similiar to Arc browser (which is based on Chromium and doesn't work on GNU/Linux)) and it's Firefox based. Also it's pretty fast and getting updates very often.
I'll check it out. I'm only wedded to it because I've used it for so long and sync it with my phone which I'm sure lots of them do anyway
try solaar for your peripherals
I'll check it out, thanks!
Welcome aboard the Nebuchadnezzar...
It's a great film 😁
Fixing the mouse problem is very easy. Open the settings app and then search for accessibility and then shake cursor and then turn it off. As simple as that.
This is kde's fault. Why did they enable this unnecessary feature by defualt? This is neither bazzite's fault nor fedora's.
Thanks, but I actually love it. It's very funny 🤣
You should try cachyos....its amazing for gaming 😊
I'll have to check it out. Any reason why it would be worth the switch from Bazzite?
I tried that, and it was as annoying as Bazzite lol. I'm back on Pop!_OS
I don't find Bazzite annoying at all! I'm loving it so far. What were your annoyances with it that made you switch? I'm not against trying other distros but as a newbie, I'm not sure what would make me switch over yet
@@ukGage you don't need to bazzite is great for gaming and newbies.
Bazzite is immutable, and the standard on Linux is not. Immutable is new and it's good for new users and also reliable in terms of updates and backups.
Somethings is hard on immutable but new users don't need anything with that. The things you can't do on Immutable is tinkering with system, customizing everything to your liking etc.
You don't need another distro for advantage in gaming. Bazzite is great for it.
Thank you 🙂
I just want to get back producing music and most of the daws work on windows. I want to get on reason 13 bandwagon lol of course this will be on my steam deck
I've not tried any music software yet. I've briefly tested putting my guitar through my Focusrite and that worked fine but that's about it (so far)
Been daily driving Linux for over a year now. have done bit of hopping around and have finally landed on NixOS which is an immutable distro also but you can install what ever you want on it you just put it all into a config file and it sets up and installs everything for you and I have mine set to auto update every night while I sleep and it ONLY restarts when the kernel updates. I run the unstable channel which is REALLY stable so IMO they need to rename to "Rolling" or something because even the "unstable" channel is stable. Linux has alot stigmas tied to it that frankly are untrue now days and are mostly just talking points passed on from people to other people that stand to lose ALOT of money if Linux takes over on the desktop because they already lost the server market to Linux decades ago and the desktop is the ONLY platform Windows has control over and when and if it loses the Desktop market or takes a serious hit they stand to lose alot of money.
Great to hear another success story with the switch. I agree with you about "what people say", it's why I said it in my video, so many people tried to put me off buy an the reasons they gave simply were false. It's possible it's been years since they've tried I suppose if I'm giving them done benefit of doubt!
Ultimately, I think it's great that everyone has more of a choice now 😁
Fallguys does work.
That's great! I thought it had got caught up with the easy anti cheat problems with epic!
I was about to say. You need Heroic Launcher, or Epic with Lutris patches, for Epic Online Services and EAC for Linux.
Yeah I've been using Heroic for testing but EAC games still don't work. There's lots of documentation on it and I tested it with Fortnite just in case 😁
@@ukGage It works on Steam. Heroic I dunno.
I shall try it, thanks!
Windows is a pure data miner now masking as an OS.
Some of these more recent updates suggest so, sadly
I love Bazzite but I wish Linux made modding games easier (S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly specifically with MO2)
Is it not something that can be done through steam with the mod library?
Or do you mean actually writing mods?
Nexus mods are working on a games mod app that works on Linux, so something to keep an eye on
@ukGage Mod organizer 2. More of a mod manager like Nexus' Vortex. Heavily reliant on Windows though sadly
I'm having similar issues with Fallout 4. I've found that setting up a Bottle for the game, and installing MO2 in that with the game sort of works. I'm using the GoG version of Fallout 4. I still can't get it to grab links from Nexus, but the mods can be downloaded and added manually. Which of course breaks potential updates from within MO2.
As person above pointed out, there is a new Vortex being worked on with Linux support, but it only does Cyberpunk 2077 & Sims4 so far, though I've not checked on it in a while.
I don't understand why people think fall guys won't work ? 1 month after steamdeck led came out they had a proton update with correct anti cheat linux version played it years on my steam deck , few call of dutys, pub g , fortnite valorent still don't work and gta 5 recent update added anti cheat so online in gta 5 no longer works only single player
A mistake from me in my understanding. A few comments have already set me straight 🙂
I'm an Arch Linux user and I don't like distros like Bazzite OS bcz it's coming with A LOT OF BLOATWARE.
You can configure Arch Linux in your own way, but Bazzite is just a ready-to-go distro....
I'm an Arch user as well, I prefer how stripped down it is and making it my own as well. That isn't for everyone, though. Distros like Bazzite are great for user adoption of desktop Linux. Some people just want a good out of the box experience with minimal steps. Getting people to use Linux is important, then people can decide if they want to learn more or not as time goes on.
Yeah it's a pretty big iso which I see people complain about but as you say, for me, it's great straight out of the box
That makes sense. I'm sure as I learn more I'll try more distros out
As long as it does not auto-start or has lengthy update processes, bloat matters very little and can help newcomers in getting started with the system.
If desired it can be un-installed too, unless it is part of the immutable core, which is one of the reasons I do not recommend such distro's.
This is commented from the 'bloated' Garuda Linux layer-distro built on Arch Linux directly (so it adds it's own repositories on top of the base Arch ones).
The only reason i still have windows is for sim racing. Linux is too janky to setup for sim racing
Never tried it even on Windows but it does look really fun. Be interesting to solutions for it though!
Interesting. This has not been my experience, since my G29 wheel just worked right away.
Installing a more responsive driver for my G29 was surprisingly painless with DMKS and has not caused further issues yet.
I assume the community drivers for other manufacturers will be similar.
Oversteer is a good enough troubleshooting utility too, I also wrote a script using it to centre my wheel on initialisation.
I do need BeamNG's Vulkan renderer for good performance on my ageing system.
But that is because Linux has let me postpone a hardware update for over 2 years by running lighter.
The DX11 version runs seamlessly through DXVK, but on larger maps my old 4C/4T CPU struggles with the extra overhead.
What was finicky is getting the game to work over two uneven screens, by making a KDE window rule for it.
Though automating this seems way harder if not impossible on Windows, so I can't complain.
And once set up it just launches correctly each time, though I do have to bypass the launcher with arguments or operate it blindly with the keyboard.
Generating a LUT to make my G29 feel actually decent was extremely finicky as I needed to use older runtimes to make the tools work.
But I managed to do it anyway and the containerisation provides good piece of mind with running random tools from the internet for this.
I don't think most Windows users even bother, but this made me stop desiring an upgrade for my G29 wheel for now.
The low FFB deadzone is completely cancelled out by the LUT and the wheel gets detected properly by all the Windows programs I tried.
Other steering wheels might be more finicky.
I read about having to install parts of the Windows driver to some game's compatdata folders for it to detect the Linux driver.
And I don't know how reliable the other community drivers are, but while missing features often they work seamlessly.
Most games should just work, but you can check ProtonDB of course.
@WyvernDotRed With regards to sim racing, it really does depend on your wheel hardware. Logitech wheels, at least the G25/G27/G29/G920/G923 are all supported directly in the kernel. But Thrustmaster wheels often require a reversed engineered driver to function in most cases. A large amount of other sim racing hardware as well, some of it works in Linux, some doesnt, or some require a lot of setup to get functional.
I am a sim racer as well, and I unfortunately also have to stick with Windows for using my sim hardware currently.
I have a 2tb nvme SSD with windows on it.
Only other thing I use Windows for is in regard to video capture, as my Elgato 4Kpro capture card and HDpro capture cards do not work under Linux. So I have a dedicated windows machine just for that purpose.
@@SongDesire mostly accurate, but as mentioned in the above comment, I changed the included Logitech driver out for another community driver.
This since the included driver has less detailed force feedback and lacks features, though many other community drivers might be incomplete too.
Specifically replacing the included hid-logitech driver with new-lg4ff, which like the Thurstmaster and Fanatek community drivers is a DKMS package.
Having to know to replace the included driver for better force feedback arguably being a worse experience than installing one to make it work at all.
Compatibility of hardware indeed is spotty, only some Fanatek, Thrustmaster and all Logitech wheels work, missing some features.
But when supported the process of installing is the same, using sudo dkms install [location], followed with sudo update-initramfs -u if the distro has no package to do this for you.
This is also why I do not recommend image based distro's, installing a dkms driver on them requires modifying the base image.
After the greater effort of unlocking the filesystem and hoping that it can still manage itself normally, it finally works gets deleted again on system updates of such imaged distro's.
Unsupported hardware certainly is a valid reason for keeping Windows around, until said hardware has been naturally replaced with more compatible equipment.
Keeping Windows contained to it's own SSD is good practise, since it does not really like to work nicely alongside a Linux system on the same drive.
Similarly Elgato hardware is unsupported, if existing the community drivers lacking functionality, like with some steering wheels.
Feature support being another solid reason of keeping Windows around.
It is what it is for now, but after switching or considering to switch in the future, new hardware purchases can be made with Linux in mind.
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Thanks, I actually really love that feature though! It's a funny one and also I think it could come in really useful when doing videos to highlight a point. I do it a couple points in the video by accident and noticed when editing.
It isn't immutable it's atomic
I guess I don't fully understand the difference yet but it's referred to as both on their pages!
That's odd, it shouldn't state that it's immutable as its based off fedora kinoite. Dw atomic and immutables are very similar. They both apply updates in a stable and secure manner so don't expect it to break ANYTIME soon (it's usually what fucks up on linux)
The not breaking is excellent 🤣
@ukGage yep, even if it does break it's got a rollback system after updates and important shit. But I'd back up just in case something DOES happen thats irreversible
@Dinky-Ayulo thank you for that, that's really helpful got my learning 🙂
How u run wow
You install the battle net launcher through Lutris. I can't remember what the exact guide was that I followed but a quick Google found me this isn't that looks to be similar to what I did
www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/install-world-of-warcraft-in-linux
Flatpaks are a user space 'runtime' environment. Think of them as a little 'virtual machine' that only runs flatpak apps and sits on top of your main system. The 'runtime' environment even has its own version of your NIVIDA drivers or MESA for AMD and Intel.
See, Linux isn't that hard is it. I've been using it for well over 20 years ( not used Windows in 10 ), well entrenched now..... no mate, nothing to say to you, you're doing all right on your own, kudos to ya. Good video.
Thanks for the Flatpak explanation, that's really clear for me.
I'm getting there! I'm lucky to be at a time with it I think where there's lots of support online
They call it Windows because Microsoft peers through it.
Badum tshhhh! 😁
The cursor blows up so you can find it, it's feature of kde.
Yeah it's great 😁
Gpu screen recorder
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@ukGage RUclips kept deleting my replies so I tried to comment to see what triggered the deletion
I have Linux a fair chance. Tried mint, bazzite, cachy os, and Nobara. While they play games they just don't perform like windows. Especially if you have ray tracing involved. And some games like stalker 2 have no controller support as it uses a new Microsoft input that Linux can't use. Lot of hoops for less performance. Not worth it. But it has potential.
Everything I've played so far has played the same or better. I'm sure it's not good to be the case for everything of course. I haven't tried anything with ray tracing yet, I should give that a test for sure. Same for controller, all worked straight from install so far. My experience has been no hoops to jump through, I think the Bazzite install takes care of most of the up front work and I'm having far less issues than I was with Windows both performance and bugs
These videos never provide an argument to leave a custom version of Windows for Linux. Only stock Windows. Every one knows stock Windows is awful. But ReviOS is one method of fixing almost every issue you have with windows. Super clean and minimal and never bothers you.
Appreciate the like, op. I've tried numerous Linux distros but I keep failing to see the benefits that compensate for dealing with wine/proton file waste and messes, and the incompatibility. Even if Linux eventually can run 90% of the software perfectly, I'm always going to find prefix folder stuff maddening.
I just keep returning to one of these open source playbook Windows cleaners. I've been someone who's run customized Windows distros since XP though. Back when it was risky to do so.
Correct, it's talking about why I moved from Windows 11 to Linux. I've used Revi before and a few of the other Tiny / Stripped versions and my issue was the same with each - after installing the latest security update, you have to strip it again and everything comes back - has that changed?
The best one I found was the Chris Tutus scripts, but in the end, it always ended up coming back to full bloat
@@ukGage yeah I love his stuff too. And yes you are supposed to keep windows updates turned off, then enabled them and let them run right before a new playbook update. I've never understood the argument that if windows update is such a headache, why not disable it for maybe 6 months? If you are really afraid of some vulnerability you can just manually download that update off the site if you want, and ignore the rest
As I said in the video. It's not for everyone, the same as revi and the Tony's also aren't for everyone. It's not about making an argument to switch, it's giving an option as someone entirely new to the software as there is a big stigma around how difficult going to Linux is. No arguments, just options and my own personal experience aimed at a standard user.
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I think you may have submitted that one early 🤣
The performance on Linux sucks on Nvidia. So I can't make the switch. I didn't buy a desktop 4090 to make it perform like a 4080.
Except it doesn't and can be demonstrably proven with a few simple tests and benchmarks
A 4090 laptop isn't going to be efficiently cooled. When it gets hot, it has no choice but to thermally throttle or shut down. Get better performance out out of a 3070ti desktop.
It does the job I need it to do perfectly, thanks 😁
Dude, what's wrong with your diction? I would advise you to compress the sound, because when you speak quieter and faster - nothing is clear.
What is wrong with my diction? I've never had that one before!
@@ukGage Oh, of course, you're English! Now I get why "water" turns into "wo'uh"!
Bluesky huh...sus.
So I've been told 🤣
Oh God, KDE! such graphical vomit 🤮
what do you mean ? kde is good.
Ha! What do you use instead? I like the look of it but haven't tried anything else
@@Mohammed_x Just because it looks like vomit doesn't mean it's bad on other fronts.
@@ukGage Gnome - which looks good but lacks functionality. I'm going for cinnamon next (mint) since it offers both functionality and decent UI.
What functionality does it miss? Genuine question, as I say, only been using for a month
I was with you but saw the bluesky icon and I know where your politics lie. Peace out
Cool, enjoy whatever you think I may be based on what social media I use 🤣 Ridiculous take
I am intrigued to hear what you think using Blue sky makes me... If you'll at least do me that courtesy?
@@ukGage Bazzite is on Bluesky too lmfao, not sure what they were hoping for...
I'd be more sad if he used Twitter