You have easily become one of my favorite linux channels on youtube. I really like how you explain things in detail and provide solutions to common issues with windows x linux apps.
Yes, he is one of the best, especially his quirky, non-monotonic voice -- which makes me laugh a lot. Just a charmastic kind of guy, and that's really good for being a YT Influencer.
I am still sad that EA has banned me off Apex Legends with no return, just because THEY failed to make sure the files required for their anti-cheat to work on Linux are shipped with the game. Valve fixed that later in Proton, but I was unlucky, and they simply refused to unban me. I just started playing and was hoping for having some fun, but they simply won't let me. EA is a pretty bad company for having these kinds of extreme restrictions on support, which allow for only three appeal attempts altogether. And often they won't even give any human response at all and just take what the system tells them.
Unlucky. I'm not sure what the timeframe is for your bans but I was banned multiple times on different accounts on Linux and was unbanned every time. This was around the time they announced official support a long time ago. It did take a while but it seems the unbans were performed automatically by Respawn because I was unbanned whether I appealed or not. Of course these days I don't think you even get banned anymore.
Another great video, I've been playing on Linux many years now and there's no better time than now, Valve's Proton and peripherals support is almost 1:1. The only thing we are lacking is anticheat support but some companies which aren't willing to support Linux are not worh my money imo.
I was a bit hesitant about trying Linux because I heard it doesn't have anti-cheat software yet. But honestly, I think the difference would be negligible in most FPS games anyway, lol.
Made the switch from windows to linux a bit ago and holy i love it. I actually see an fps difference and a general performance improvement now that i dont have all that bloatware hanging around that windows forces
You're always the best, @Michael. You've helped me get more use to Linux. I needed to watch this to help my Wife get more games available on the Steam Deck that I bought her few years back. She just started playing again on 12-07-2024. Yeah, she hasn't played since got the first SD right at release, because she had carpal tunnel (using laptop too much). But, it's better now, so I'm happy she picked up the SD tonight and wanted to try and start using it again. Her favorite games back then were Farm Together, StarDew Valley, and some Chef cooking game.
I only been on Linux for four days and I’m losing my mind it is so annoying every time you have to do whatever you need to write a code that you have to find somewhere and then write it in the terminal it’s the most annoying thing ever I’m gonna stick with windows 10 forever unfortunately
@@onkelhiphop i used to be like that until I started learning programming and found out the codes are not a random string but just a series of instructions that make sense once you learn them. Just like knowing which of the control panels to go to in windows or the fact that the tool you are using in windows is trash and there's a better hidden tool, the command line is about getting used to. To install stuff, half of them are on the appatore and the "sudo packetmanagername program" just does the same thing. You can even search if you know what you need but are not sure. After getting used to it Ive gone from being annoyed at the exact same thing as you to appreciating the fact you have an access to the official download, virus, popup and wait timer free without having to filter through sketchy sites. (And as a bonus not having to go through a bunch of different iterations of the control panel and still resorting to using regedit and cmd only to find out windows doesn't allow it/its bugged eg changing appdata folder to not be on the tiny nvme)
@@onkelhiphop lol use chatgpt for that, makes the process super easy. Don't even have to type to chat gpt either if youre on the phone, just go into a call with it
I've used Kali, Ubuntu, and recently (and my favorite) Mint. I cannot recommend Mint enough. The people who complain about a terminal have not used a mainstream distro in a half a decade, are not tech savvy to begin with. Windows is for children. Linux is for adults.
OMG, Thanks for the Discord workaround!!! It was killing me to use it through firefox with a double prompt to share my screen each time.. and it wasn`t as good as this workaround!
Great video, need more RUclipsrs to support Linux and help everyone improve Linux, we are bored of trash Windows and the bad things about Windows, Linux is way better for cheap / old hardwares, keep it up and increase the marketshare, Linux should be easier to use
Appreciate you pointing out we no longer need shader caching on Steam. Such a minor thing that nobody seems to talk about, and I had zero idea DXVK got updated to make this obsolete. One more minor annoyance eliminated for gaming on Linux!
im really close to switching.. will not be upgrading to windows 12 or whatever comes after 11. hoping linux continues to make strides gaming wise by that time.
One thing you could have mentioned is that it depends on how you choose the games you play. If you are a casual player that just plays whatever works, gaming on linux is not that bad, there are plenty of titles that work. If you are a social player, that grabs the latest games to play with your mates, linux might not be a good choice. It might take some time after the launch of the game for it to get to a playable state on linux, so when you are able to start you will be behind your peers that were in other platforms.
@@SammyGoated No, plenty of games doesn't run or run poorly on the first few weeks to a month, some even for longer, despite not having anti-cheats. It takes some time for the community to find the workarounds to make some games work. Sure, there are some that work out of the box, but my point stands, you can't simply decide to play a new game and play, because it may be still not running well.
@@MarcusBuer I've been playing most new releases of this year with no issue almost day one. You might be referring to the games/companies which actively aren't supporting Linux with their tech implementations, ie. Rockstar, Bungie, Riot, etc.
Thanks so much for the discord screen share fix!! I have been just using discord within the Firefox browser, but that's missing so many features, most notably I can't raise anyone's volume above 100%. This isba game changer and is bringing me one step closer to going full Linux 100% of the time!
great video. I haven't used linux outside of my raspberry pi, thinking about moving my main pc to linux and was worried as i built my rig for gaming. once windows no longer supports 10 i'm pretty sure i will migrate over and this makes me feel a bit more confident about the transition.
Steam, Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Launcher has been a life saver for me. I fully switched to Linux because I could game on it reliably now. Well, from the games I am playing. Not to mention it freed up my system resources for other things like focusing on the work apps I am using for work.
The only thing preventing me from permanently jumping from Windows to Linux is the capture card (Elgato) and several old games on GOG. I want everything to work, and despite googling, there are no solutions to my problems. The capture card doesn't have Linux support, and GOG games like Blood Omen, Messiah, Boken Sword series to mention a few just don't work. Tried several runners, dependencies, settings etc. There's only so much work and time I'm willing to spend. Proton is going the right way, but not all the way just yet.
I feel your Elgato pain. Comparable capture cards, especially PCIe ones, are far more expensive and don't really offer much more on return. I honestly never understood why Elgato used a specific Windows library for their capture instead of something more universal like they already did with their USB ones
Running mInimal Arch Linux on my gaming pc (dual boot) with minimal Gnome Shell, traditional X11, NVidia drivers and Pulseaudio. Firefox and Steam are the only apps installed. Nearly 80% of my Steam games work out of the box. Easy! 😀 Great video by the way!
Great video! It's awesome to see how far Linux gaming has come. The performance improvements and the variety of available titles are really impressive. Thanks for sharing these tips and insights!
I've got Linux Mint installed on my 12 year old desktop, as with the impending Windows 10 not possible to upgrade to 11 I think Linux is the best option. Really like Mint, very easy to use and everything just works, it recognised all the drivers including the Nvidia graphics card, so very impressed with it. Didn't know about the option to turn on compatibility for Steam, many thanks for that! Think I may get rid of Windows from this PC in a few months as support for Win 10 is gone. Linux works so well I'm very impressed. Thank you mate!
4 years running arch, 1 reinstall due to upgrade on storage, no biblic screw ups as of yet, and since proton 5.13 no issues running my games other than the old CPU not capable of high FPS but still playing all big launches since then.
@skittles.abuser I used linux at college, so I just changed from that to daily driving a few years later. I don't even rely on GUI's for most of the system maintenance to the point I'm even using Hyprland alone, sound, network, a bluetooth dongle, docker containers running some self hosted apps, all on text editors and terminal (not really a fan of TUI editors) work just fine.
Your my favorite linux youtuber out of the bunch I've seen. I really like how you don't make the user use the terminal, and you explain things so clearly and I learn stuff I didn't even know I wanted. Thanks!
It's a weird thing that there haven't been any efforts yet. Almost two years ago they hired people for UI/UX design on Linux, but nothing ever came from it
My main gripe with hardware support is the peripherals like mice, keyboards and headsets. If you want an extra functionality working, you either have to find a project like Input mapper or others that can do 50% of the things, but not 100, and it's a hassle. First party support of these devices should be a thing
Suggest to go with a rolling release distro/OS - Fedora is a very good. You need most latest updates when you are gaming on Linux. I'm with Arch. Most of games work smoothly.
Fedora is a great middle ground. I update once a week and the upgrade list is always packed with stuff. Arch is good too tho, bunch of updates every single day pretty much.
there is just one thing you have to know, if you bought your game outside of steam you got no support. No games from GoG, Ubisoft or the EA launcher have anyone who cares if they work.
I moved over to Linux a couple of weeks ago and I miss playing Warzone but I hate Windows enough to where I will not go back. I have 2 machines running Linux my main machine is running PopOS 24.04 Cosmic and my 2013 Mac is running PopOS 22.04 both run excellent
"installing software on linux should be preferably done via the package manager or software store" - while I strongly agree with this, I think Steam is special case especially when it comes to Fedora. My personal recommendation is to make sure you are not installing the Flatpak or Snap version of Steam due to certain compatibility issues. Don't get me wrong though I love flatpaks and I recommend them for anything else but from my own personal experience I noticed the native Steam is better.
I noticed this as well. I just had an issue yesterday where I installed a new GPU and the flatpak version of a steam stopped working because it didn’t recognize the new drivers, and that made all my games unplayable. I uninstalled it and installed the Steam version from my distro’s repository using the package manager and it fixed the issue.
Nobara Linux is very good for gaming, based on fedora but glorious eggroll is the main contributor I think and it comes with a lot of gaming oriented fixes out the box so it’s amazing for beginners
Screen sharing with sound in Discord has been a long running issue already. It would be so easy if you could just connect OBS stream to it and be done, but nope that's not an option. Well actually you can sort of do that by setting up virtual webcam kernel module and then feed it to the Discord as live webcam feed. The image quality, frame rate and audio quality take a tremendous hit but this way I could stream output rather reliably with audio with great level of control what goes into the audio and what does not.
Damn I’ve never before installed another os on my pc but u make it seem so easy an intuitiv ill give it a shot Oh and till now ive only ever been running windows 😅
I went to linux and so far I'm finding linux to be flat out better. Edge cases like simracing need custom drivers(literally find the commonly reccomended driver and copy paste some commands into terminal) and vr needs to make sure you are using right proton. So far only issues i've had have been: Something not working cause secureboot was enabled. Me installing wayland incorrectly and it causing games to crash after a bit For the rest games run as good or sometimes flat out better and without crashing compared to windows.
As far as pure gaming is concerned, I can recommend Garuda Linux. The only gaming related thing I had to do, was install a controller related plugin for Steam to recognize a Bluetooth controller; wired controller was working out of the box. Everything else, just plug & play, no utilities, plugins, no terminal commands. As for non gaming related stuff, yes, it will probably take some time to familiarize yourself with utilities for fan control, rgb, that sort of thing.
Nice video, but most of the stuff is already well documented. It would've been better, if you talked about enabling HDR on Gnome and KDE, because that's where the confusion lies.
Only thing keeping me from making the move is ALVR with wireless needs some work with encoding settings and anti-chat with a lot of games, particularly East Anti-cheat.
I'm looking at a linux-based machine for my next PC. I was curious about the part about NVIDIA. I picked up that AMD was a better choice and so have been looking at AMD-based systems. But if, as you showed, an nvidia system has no issues and you just install the drivers, it opens up a lot of options. Honestly, I was hoping to arrange something very like a Steam Deck -- it's distro, along with the KD5 plasma interface, and steam.
Linux of be absolutely perfect if it supported call of duty. Say what you say about the series but sometimes I don't have too much time to sit there and play story games and that would be nice to have a good arcade shooter.
@@MichaelNROH It would be more than phenomenal. Currently using Chimera OS as my main build for the living room, definitely annoying when I boot up windows and have to navigate it with a controller and key oard while I wait for all the pop-ups to finish loading on boot. (With an NVMe and literally just steam installed.)
Been using Linux for about 4 weeks now, and regretably it is not what people promise it to be. It works great for day to day use. But non of the programs I use (Affinity) nor the games I play work properly. Either crashing, lagging, or have strange glitches. Following various "fix this problem"-guides have not fixed these. But I am hoping that Linux at some point becomes a viable option.
Video files have nothing to do with shader caching. Since the files you download have already been compiled for your hardware there is no reason why it can't compile it itself. Depending on the game there could be stutters, but it shouldn't have anything to do with compatibility
Also disabling shader precaching might lead to stutter in some titles. Runtime compiling is only possible without stuttering on games that are more CPU limited than GPU limited. If your GPU is pegged at 100% it will need to decrease the frametime to reserve resources for shader compilation.
Nice and informative video content, thanks a lot for that, highly appreciated. Can you generally say whether one should currently lean either towards NVIDIA or rather AMD when it comes to choosing a modern graphics card? Not only in terms of performance, but also concerning things like driver support, technologies like (especially global/driver-controlled) G-Sync/FreeSync, or whether there are special things to consider with global graphics settings for non Linux games? What about ‘old fashioned problems’ like for example screen tearing or freezing and crashing bugs that can occur when you frequently tab back and forth between the desktop and the game itself (I'm specifically using the latter as an example because I remember having massive problems with exactly that back some time using GNOME + NVIDIA, although that was years ago... but bad memories and experiences always got the habit to remain in the back of one's mind). It would also be very interesting to know whether you can use Wayland without any problems in the meantime or whether it can cause any heavy problems. I lately considered switching to Sway Display Manager on my Linux PC... Thanks in advance, keep up with that great content!
@@notjustforhackers4252 I am not quite sure what this even means tbh Like how would I get those? Is this as straight forward as installing something on win11?
I'm gonna stick with dual boot for any games that are finicky, but planning to switch linux as my daily driver. Been on an i3wm Fedora install for years that i only use for coding and other general productivity use (journalism, gimp, browsing). i3 flavor is def is not game friendly out of box.
Absolutely! I am a big fan of PortProton. I used to run all my Windoes games and software withe CodeWeaver Crossover. But PortProton runs everything way better!
Steam has made it very easy to game on linux. But there is still some room for improvement. For example, Steam doesn't recognize that you're using linux, and automatically switch the games over to linux mode. You have to manually go in there and do it yourself, each time you want to install a new game. Not a huge deal, but it would be cool if you just hit the "Play" button like you can on windows. Next problem is that if you want to play a game that's not on steam, there's usually several more steps. You have to install something like Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris. And there's a setup that you have to do for each game. Unlike with Steam. But Ai is coming to help at least. Soon there will be a good FOSS Ai that will make everything just work on linux easily.
I used to run Linux, but because steamworkshop mods(and others) dont work for certain games i play i switched back to windows. and aswell, as getting VST's for music production to run was a pain, if anyone has tips greatly appreciate it. Linux is superior
unfortunately it becomes difficult to use when you have to do silly things like install WeMod and have an easy-to-use and always up-to-date distrubution
Can i just add (as a genuinely non die-hard Linux / Ubuntu user) I personally found the Snap Store Steam download is noticeably slow. Not debilitating, but noticeable. Id humbly suggest installing via the apt install Steam as it seems to be much faster. No hate on snap (i literally use snap for like 70% of my software) , just a general observation / tip 😅
i would LOVE to switch to linux but the only thing stopping me is vanguard not being supported. i unfortunately play league and all my friends do, so that’s a big limit
Hello, brand newbie here (switched to linux just a few days ago). Thank you for your video. Is bottles a wine replacement? Or do i need to also have wine installed in order to use bottles? I love the word play in all this LOL.
The lack of official screen sharing with audio support on Discord is tragic and switching to something like Matrix and screen sharing just doesn't cut it
How can I see which games works natively on Linux in Steam, and is there any performance penalties for running non steam games? I'm not sure I quite understand how DirectX games are able to run on Linux. Does it involve some kind of translation without any performance loss? Can I use the bottle thing to run Windows apps like Photoshop? Sorry for all the questions.
Have you tried any kind of CPU scheduler and custom kernel for gaming? In my case using OpenSuse Tumbleweed, I had to use ananicy-cpp because non-Steam games runs really bad when multi-tasking. And then I dug a little too deep with custom kernel and broke my installation lol. I'm now using CachyOS for their ananicy-cpp config and Kernel Manager that helps me play around.
You have easily become one of my favorite linux channels on youtube. I really like how you explain things in detail and provide solutions to common issues with windows x linux apps.
Yes, he is one of the best, especially his quirky, non-monotonic voice -- which makes me laugh a lot. Just a charmastic kind of guy, and that's really good for being a YT Influencer.
@MichaelNROH i still cant decide between fedora or unbuntu as they both look very good to me
I am still sad that EA has banned me off Apex Legends with no return, just because THEY failed to make sure the files required for their anti-cheat to work on Linux are shipped with the game. Valve fixed that later in Proton, but I was unlucky, and they simply refused to unban me. I just started playing and was hoping for having some fun, but they simply won't let me. EA is a pretty bad company for having these kinds of extreme restrictions on support, which allow for only three appeal attempts altogether. And often they won't even give any human response at all and just take what the system tells them.
I agree, your ban is arbitrary and unfair. Good news is, Valve’s new TPS/Moba is incredibly good. So you’ll have something great to play down the road
Unlucky. I'm not sure what the timeframe is for your bans but I was banned multiple times on different accounts on Linux and was unbanned every time. This was around the time they announced official support a long time ago. It did take a while but it seems the unbans were performed automatically by Respawn because I was unbanned whether I appealed or not. Of course these days I don't think you even get banned anymore.
@@blossomcherrypinkWell, I was unlucky and I wasn't unbanned.
EA are notorious cunts, no other way to describe them.
Linux Platform has now been banned from Apex completely
Another great video, I've been playing on Linux many years now and there's no better time than now, Valve's Proton and peripherals support is almost 1:1. The only thing we are lacking is anticheat support but some companies which aren't willing to support Linux are not worh my money imo.
I was a bit hesitant about trying Linux because I heard it doesn't have anti-cheat software yet. But honestly, I think the difference would be negligible in most FPS games anyway, lol.
@@klipzGand it's not like the invasive anticheat actually helps. Apex is banning Linux users, sure, but it's still got an infamous cheating crisis.
For AMD users. If you want more fan control over your discrete GPU, you should try LACT.
Nobara Linux is my preferred Linux Gaming OS. OOB setup for fantastic performance. Great community support and built upon Fedora. Rock solid.
second nobara. Its like fedora, but with all desired patches buidt-in at installation
I had some driver issue with that (nvidia ), arch looks better
Im not a gamer, i use AMD,The only game that i play is megaglest and Psp emulator..
@@fabricio4794 amd is so nice for linux
@@darthkielbasa bro can I use premier and photoshop as wine in jt
Made the switch from windows to linux a bit ago and holy i love it. I actually see an fps difference and a general performance improvement now that i dont have all that bloatware hanging around that windows forces
I appreciate the “look at the visuals” approach to choosing a distro
You're always the best, @Michael. You've helped me get more use to Linux. I needed to watch this to help my Wife get more games available on the Steam Deck that I bought her few years back. She just started playing again on 12-07-2024. Yeah, she hasn't played since got the first SD right at release, because she had carpal tunnel (using laptop too much). But, it's better now, so I'm happy she picked up the SD tonight and wanted to try and start using it again. Her favorite games back then were Farm Together, StarDew Valley, and some Chef cooking game.
I've been using Linux Mint over 4 months, never going back to Windows.
I only been on Linux for four days and I’m losing my mind it is so annoying every time you have to do whatever you need to write a code that you have to find somewhere and then write it in the terminal it’s the most annoying thing ever I’m gonna stick with windows 10 forever unfortunately
@@onkelhiphop i used to be like that until I started learning programming and found out the codes are not a random string but just a series of instructions that make sense once you learn them. Just like knowing which of the control panels to go to in windows or the fact that the tool you are using in windows is trash and there's a better hidden tool, the command line is about getting used to.
To install stuff, half of them are on the appatore and the "sudo packetmanagername program" just does the same thing. You can even search if you know what you need but are not sure.
After getting used to it Ive gone from being annoyed at the exact same thing as you to appreciating the fact you have an access to the official download, virus, popup and wait timer free without having to filter through sketchy sites. (And as a bonus not having to go through a bunch of different iterations of the control panel and still resorting to using regedit and cmd only to find out windows doesn't allow it/its bugged eg changing appdata folder to not be on the tiny nvme)
@@onkelhiphop lol use chatgpt for that, makes the process super easy. Don't even have to type to chat gpt either if youre on the phone, just go into a call with it
@@onkelhiphop what kind of problem you ran into that makes you to do all of this?
I've used Kali, Ubuntu, and recently (and my favorite) Mint. I cannot recommend Mint enough. The people who complain about a terminal have not used a mainstream distro in a half a decade, are not tech savvy to begin with. Windows is for children. Linux is for adults.
OMG, Thanks for the Discord workaround!!!
It was killing me to use it through firefox with a double prompt to share my screen each time.. and it wasn`t as good as this workaround!
Great video, need more RUclipsrs to support Linux and help everyone improve Linux, we are bored of trash Windows and the bad things about Windows, Linux is way better for cheap / old hardwares, keep it up and increase the marketshare, Linux should be easier to use
O will do a channel
Fedora gang :D
Im glad more people are loving it! It's my favorite from the ones ive tried so far
I recently moved to Linux gaming on Ubuntu and so far it’s been flawless thanks for your video
Appreciate you pointing out we no longer need shader caching on Steam. Such a minor thing that nobody seems to talk about, and I had zero idea DXVK got updated to make this obsolete. One more minor annoyance eliminated for gaming on Linux!
im really close to switching.. will not be upgrading to windows 12 or whatever comes after 11. hoping linux continues to make strides gaming wise by that time.
its nice that linux is getting better for games but its edge in C programming is what wins it for me
One thing you could have mentioned is that it depends on how you choose the games you play.
If you are a casual player that just plays whatever works, gaming on linux is not that bad, there are plenty of titles that work.
If you are a social player, that grabs the latest games to play with your mates, linux might not be a good choice. It might take some time after the launch of the game for it to get to a playable state on linux, so when you are able to start you will be behind your peers that were in other platforms.
Good point!
Only applies to games with rootkit malware anti-cheat, you shouldn't play them anyways. F Riot Games.
@@SammyGoated No, plenty of games doesn't run or run poorly on the first few weeks to a month, some even for longer, despite not having anti-cheats.
It takes some time for the community to find the workarounds to make some games work. Sure, there are some that work out of the box, but my point stands, you can't simply decide to play a new game and play, because it may be still not running well.
@@MarcusBuer What games in particular?
@@MarcusBuer I've been playing most new releases of this year with no issue almost day one. You might be referring to the games/companies which actively aren't supporting Linux with their tech implementations, ie. Rockstar, Bungie, Riot, etc.
Thanks so much for the discord screen share fix!! I have been just using discord within the Firefox browser, but that's missing so many features, most notably I can't raise anyone's volume above 100%. This isba game changer and is bringing me one step closer to going full Linux 100% of the time!
@@johncaseyjenkins
I use Vesktop instead of Discord. Now i can share screen in Discord
great video. I haven't used linux outside of my raspberry pi, thinking about moving my main pc to linux and was worried as i built my rig for gaming. once windows no longer supports 10 i'm pretty sure i will migrate over and this makes me feel a bit more confident about the transition.
Steam, Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Launcher has been a life saver for me. I fully switched to Linux because I could game on it reliably now. Well, from the games I am playing. Not to mention it freed up my system resources for other things like focusing on the work apps I am using for work.
7:26 "But im sure that we will get there, once Linux gets a little more traction." I've been hearing this my whole life. lmao
7:00 If you use KDE Plasma you do NOT need Flatseal as this function is build into KDE in System Settings -> Application Permissions
KDE is awesome.
I will try linux for the first time, thanks to you :)
@tristen_grant typo :P
Did you do it? If you did, how easy is it, and have all of your games worked so far?
@@blamejohnath I did, I'm using Fedora so far so good, it's was great experience
The only thing preventing me from permanently jumping from Windows to Linux is the capture card (Elgato) and several old games on GOG. I want everything to work, and despite googling, there are no solutions to my problems. The capture card doesn't have Linux support, and GOG games like Blood Omen, Messiah, Boken Sword series to mention a few just don't work. Tried several runners, dependencies, settings etc.
There's only so much work and time I'm willing to spend. Proton is going the right way, but not all the way just yet.
I feel your Elgato pain. Comparable capture cards, especially PCIe ones, are far more expensive and don't really offer much more on return.
I honestly never understood why Elgato used a specific Windows library for their capture instead of something more universal like they already did with their USB ones
Thanks alot gonna do this on a setup awesome video!
Running mInimal Arch Linux on my gaming pc (dual boot) with minimal Gnome Shell, traditional X11, NVidia drivers and Pulseaudio. Firefox and Steam are the only apps installed. Nearly 80% of my Steam games work out of the box. Easy! 😀 Great video by the way!
god how i would love this setup + emulation
Excellent content. Keep it coming!
Very nice sum up.
Great video! It's awesome to see how far Linux gaming has come. The performance improvements and the variety of available titles are really impressive. Thanks for sharing these tips and insights!
gonna give it a try for my new AM5 build. Thanks for the video
Welcome, all Copilot refugees.
Good summary of gaming on Linux today, thanks! I will consider the switch once Windows 10 loses support.
I've got Linux Mint installed on my 12 year old desktop, as with the impending Windows 10 not possible to upgrade to 11 I think Linux is the best option. Really like Mint, very easy to use and everything just works, it recognised all the drivers including the Nvidia graphics card, so very impressed with it. Didn't know about the option to turn on compatibility for Steam, many thanks for that! Think I may get rid of Windows from this PC in a few months as support for Win 10 is gone. Linux works so well I'm very impressed. Thank you mate!
the win11 requirements are not real, you can use rufus to make an image with them disabled but ofc stick to linux 100%
Well summarized👍 U should keep Linux gaming vids updated and compare different distros with Windows.
Best video! Super concise yet detailed enough for me to jump off of!
4 years running arch, 1 reinstall due to upgrade on storage, no biblic screw ups as of yet, and since proton 5.13 no issues running my games other than the old CPU not capable of high FPS but still playing all big launches since then.
did you get it first try though
@skittles.abuser I used linux at college, so I just changed from that to daily driving a few years later. I don't even rely on GUI's for most of the system maintenance to the point I'm even using Hyprland alone, sound, network, a bluetooth dongle, docker containers running some self hosted apps, all on text editors and terminal (not really a fan of TUI editors) work just fine.
Cachyos, does make a huge difference as it fixes nvidia stuff
completely?
@@NidrixGlandda IMO no. 560 open kernel drivers are broken and you have to do some tweaks to make it work good.
Your my favorite linux youtuber out of the bunch I've seen. I really like how you don't make the user use the terminal, and you explain things so clearly and I learn stuff I didn't even know I wanted. Thanks!
Good content. Subscribed.
Thanks
Just wish AMD would release Adrenaline Software on Linux; hopefully in the future things will improve.
It's a weird thing that there haven't been any efforts yet. Almost two years ago they hired people for UI/UX design on Linux, but nothing ever came from it
My main gripe with hardware support is the peripherals like mice, keyboards and headsets. If you want an extra functionality working, you either have to find a project like Input mapper or others that can do 50% of the things, but not 100, and it's a hassle. First party support of these devices should be a thing
true but nowadays you can run windows apps containerized and share drivers and use the software that way no?
6:23 This!
Thank you so much
Suggest to go with a rolling release distro/OS - Fedora is a very good. You need most latest updates when you are gaming on Linux. I'm with Arch. Most of games work smoothly.
Fedora is a great middle ground. I update once a week and the upgrade list is always packed with stuff.
Arch is good too tho, bunch of updates every single day pretty much.
there is just one thing you have to know, if you bought your game outside of steam you got no support. No games from GoG, Ubisoft or the EA launcher have anyone who cares if they work.
Linux user here definitely a superior Os for software development, coding etc..
Gaming on the other hand is better on a debloated version of Windows.
I moved over to Linux a couple of weeks ago and I miss playing Warzone but I hate Windows enough to where I will not go back. I have 2 machines running Linux my main machine is running PopOS 24.04 Cosmic and my 2013 Mac is running PopOS 22.04 both run excellent
Thank you very much.
You are welcome
Thank you ❤
"installing software on linux should be preferably done via the package manager or software store" - while I strongly agree with this, I think Steam is special case especially when it comes to Fedora. My personal recommendation is to make sure you are not installing the Flatpak or Snap version of Steam due to certain compatibility issues. Don't get me wrong though I love flatpaks and I recommend them for anything else but from my own personal experience I noticed the native Steam is better.
I noticed this as well. I just had an issue yesterday where I installed a new GPU and the flatpak version of a steam stopped working because it didn’t recognize the new drivers, and that made all my games unplayable. I uninstalled it and installed the Steam version from my distro’s repository using the package manager and it fixed the issue.
I can play Jazzpunk and CS2 so I'm happy :)
Nobara Linux is very good for gaming, based on fedora but glorious eggroll is the main contributor I think and it comes with a lot of gaming oriented fixes out the box so it’s amazing for beginners
Screen sharing with sound in Discord has been a long running issue already. It would be so easy if you could just connect OBS stream to it and be done, but nope that's not an option.
Well actually you can sort of do that by setting up virtual webcam kernel module and then feed it to the Discord as live webcam feed. The image quality, frame rate and audio quality take a tremendous hit but this way I could stream output rather reliably with audio with great level of control what goes into the audio and what does not.
Damn I’ve never before installed another os on my pc but u make it seem so easy an intuitiv ill give it a shot
Oh and till now ive only ever been running windows 😅
I haven't swapped yet, but thank you
Thanks Mike, you are a gangster!
I went to linux and so far I'm finding linux to be flat out better.
Edge cases like simracing need custom drivers(literally find the commonly reccomended driver and copy paste some commands into terminal) and vr needs to make sure you are using right proton.
So far only issues i've had have been:
Something not working cause secureboot was enabled.
Me installing wayland incorrectly and it causing games to crash after a bit
For the rest games run as good or sometimes flat out better and without crashing compared to windows.
My main issue is VR. I recently got a CV1 but I'd like to still play Beat Saber with all my mods and etc...
As far as pure gaming is concerned, I can recommend Garuda Linux. The only gaming related thing I had to do, was install a controller related plugin for Steam to recognize a Bluetooth controller; wired controller was working out of the box. Everything else, just plug & play, no utilities, plugins, no terminal commands.
As for non gaming related stuff, yes, it will probably take some time to familiarize yourself with utilities for fan control, rgb, that sort of thing.
Nice video, but most of the stuff is already well documented. It would've been better, if you talked about enabling HDR on Gnome and KDE, because that's where the confusion lies.
Only thing keeping me from making the move is ALVR with wireless needs some work with encoding settings and anti-chat with a lot of games, particularly East Anti-cheat.
I'm looking at a linux-based machine for my next PC. I was curious about the part about NVIDIA. I picked up that AMD was a better choice and so have been looking at AMD-based systems. But if, as you showed, an nvidia system has no issues and you just install the drivers, it opens up a lot of options. Honestly, I was hoping to arrange something very like a Steam Deck -- it's distro, along with the KD5 plasma interface, and steam.
Could u make a video on the Conky application and how to customize it? Keep up the amazing videos
Make a video for batocera retro console
Linux of be absolutely perfect if it supported call of duty. Say what you say about the series but sometimes I don't have too much time to sit there and play story games and that would be nice to have a good arcade shooter.
It would be phenomenal. Not only on the Desktop but possible future Linux based consoles
@@MichaelNROH It would be more than phenomenal. Currently using Chimera OS as my main build for the living room, definitely annoying when I boot up windows and have to navigate it with a controller and key oard while I wait for all the pop-ups to finish loading on boot. (With an NVMe and literally just steam installed.)
(Coming form a guy who JUST installed mint for good this time) TERMINAL ROCKS I AINT USING EXECUTABLES ANYMORE
My main problem with gaming on linux is nvidia gpus and driving simulator with a wheel, some wheels aren't recognized on linux sadly
Been using Linux for about 4 weeks now, and regretably it is not what people promise it to be. It works great for day to day use. But non of the programs I use (Affinity) nor the games I play work properly. Either crashing, lagging, or have strange glitches. Following various "fix this problem"-guides have not fixed these. But I am hoping that Linux at some point becomes a viable option.
Installed Arch because I want Rolling release, AUR, and max pain and frustration... the recent valve collab was the cherry on top
I'm so happy to see you're a fedora guy
You might not always want to disable shader precaching. Some games send transcoded video files and might not play if shader precaching is disabled.
Video files have nothing to do with shader caching. Since the files you download have already been compiled for your hardware there is no reason why it can't compile it itself. Depending on the game there could be stutters, but it shouldn't have anything to do with compatibility
Also disabling shader precaching might lead to stutter in some titles. Runtime compiling is only possible without stuttering on games that are more CPU limited than GPU limited. If your GPU is pegged at 100% it will need to decrease the frametime to reserve resources for shader compilation.
Nice and informative video content, thanks a lot for that, highly appreciated.
Can you generally say whether one should currently lean either towards NVIDIA or rather AMD when it comes to choosing a modern graphics card? Not only in terms of performance, but also concerning things like driver support, technologies like (especially global/driver-controlled) G-Sync/FreeSync, or whether there are special things to consider with global graphics settings for non Linux games?
What about ‘old fashioned problems’ like for example screen tearing or freezing and crashing bugs that can occur when you frequently tab back and forth between the desktop and the game itself (I'm specifically using the latter as an example because I remember having massive problems with exactly that back some time using GNOME + NVIDIA, although that was years ago... but bad memories and experiences always got the habit to remain in the back of one's mind).
It would also be very interesting to know whether you can use Wayland without any problems in the meantime or whether it can cause any heavy problems. I lately considered switching to Sway Display Manager on my Linux PC...
Thanks in advance, keep up with that great content!
If all you want to do is gaming then go AMD, no arguments.
I need 2 things to work for me to consider switiching to a Linux Distro.
1. Is HDR or Nvidia RTX HDR supported?
2. Does my Stream Deck+ work?
1. KDE Plasma 6.2 has just been released with more HDR support.
2. StreamController ( from flatpak ).
@@notjustforhackers4252 I am not quite sure what this even means tbh
Like how would I get those? Is this as straight forward as installing something on win11?
If i want discord , you should definitely recommend vesktop
crazy that he didnt mention it, or doesn't know about it
What is your Linux distribution?
nice video ty
What distro is he using? It's so pretty
Fedora
I'm gonna stick with dual boot for any games that are finicky, but planning to switch linux as my daily driver. Been on an i3wm Fedora install for years that i only use for coding and other general productivity use (journalism, gimp, browsing). i3 flavor is def is not game friendly out of box.
Why did you not cover PortProton 😢 it’s far superior to lutris and bottles while being just as powerful and has a large community
Absolutely! I am a big fan of PortProton. I used to run all my Windoes games and software withe CodeWeaver Crossover. But PortProton runs everything way better!
Steam has made it very easy to game on linux. But there is still some room for improvement. For example, Steam doesn't recognize that you're using linux, and automatically switch the games over to linux mode. You have to manually go in there and do it yourself, each time you want to install a new game. Not a huge deal, but it would be cool if you just hit the "Play" button like you can on windows. Next problem is that if you want to play a game that's not on steam, there's usually several more steps. You have to install something like Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris. And there's a setup that you have to do for each game. Unlike with Steam. But Ai is coming to help at least. Soon there will be a good FOSS Ai that will make everything just work on linux easily.
Screen sharing is just an issue from Wayland. Thats why I use Xorg instead. At least stable.
I used to run Linux, but because steamworkshop mods(and others) dont work for certain games i play i switched back to windows. and aswell, as getting VST's for music production to run was a pain, if anyone has tips greatly appreciate it. Linux is superior
unfortunately it becomes difficult to use when you have to do silly things like install WeMod and have an easy-to-use and always up-to-date distrubution
i'm thinking of switching to Linux. I would knew if WoW runs smooth on Linux?
Can i just add (as a genuinely non die-hard Linux / Ubuntu user) I personally found the Snap Store Steam download is noticeably slow.
Not debilitating, but noticeable. Id humbly suggest installing via the apt install Steam as it seems to be much faster.
No hate on snap (i literally use snap for like 70% of my software) , just a general observation / tip 😅
i would LOVE to switch to linux but the only thing stopping me is vanguard not being supported. i unfortunately play league and all my friends do, so that’s a big limit
I'm still stuck in limbo between Windows and Fedora because I can't break away from Office 365 and Once Human is not supported...
Hello, brand newbie here (switched to linux just a few days ago). Thank you for your video. Is bottles a wine replacement? Or do i need to also have wine installed in order to use bottles? I love the word play in all this LOL.
An idea how to make fedora switch to 2nd graphic card when lauching specific program (game) on notebook?
What shaders you're using for Minecraft? Let me know pls
I think it was the BSL Shader
We're in a chicken and egg scenario. Linux has a LOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG way to go but it won't get there until we all start using it.
The lack of official screen sharing with audio support on Discord is tragic and switching to something like Matrix and screen sharing just doesn't cut it
Would xbox gamepass work? Not the cloud gaming but the native one
I have to reinstall windows on my gaming pc but I think I will install linux instead.
What's the theme on the thumbnail? It looks quite nice
Can you do a tutorial on how to install a linux version compatible For gaming?
which graphics card and processor would you recommend for linux?
If all you want to do is game then go with AMD system.
If you also want to do pro video editing or 3D work go with NVIDIA.
window king 👑
How can I see which games works natively on Linux in Steam, and is there any performance penalties for running non steam games? I'm not sure I quite understand how DirectX games are able to run on Linux. Does it involve some kind of translation without any performance loss? Can I use the bottle thing to run Windows apps like Photoshop?
Sorry for all the questions.
Linux gaming overall is pretty darn great. I think 2 of my games were noticeably underperformant compared to windows. What hurts Linux is…itself
Have you tried any kind of CPU scheduler and custom kernel for gaming? In my case using OpenSuse Tumbleweed, I had to use ananicy-cpp because non-Steam games runs really bad when multi-tasking. And then I dug a little too deep with custom kernel and broke my installation lol. I'm now using CachyOS for their ananicy-cpp config and Kernel Manager that helps me play around.
No and I don't really see the point honestly. The Linux kernel already performs really well