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Very satisfying video! Have you thought about doing a video on Batocera linux?

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LOOK AT HIM SO CUTE SO TINY

Nice video, i think core i7 would have been a better choice for cpu that way you should get almost all games running smoothly.

Great Video ! i would suggest to gave Bazzite a try, it's a more gaming focused system with more recent kernel and mes. It would fit your system as a glove.

i use arch because i love the aur and the simplicity of being able to make my system exactly with packages i like, but for some reason i can't explain why, the most fps i had playing any kind of game on linux was when i was using void linux, that distro has something different, idk if it was because of runit instead of systemd, but in some games i had like 10+ fps than on arch, idk why

you always deliver content that's both thought-provoking and enjoyable!

you're doing an amazing job at demystifying difficult topics! ‍♂️

Another interesting thing about Wine/Proton is that for old Windows games you might actually have better luck using Wine than modern Windows. Afaik Wine can even run 16 bit Windows 95 applications. Which funny enough means Wine actually has better compatibility for many older programs than even Windows. Wine prefixes are also a game changer for me. Since every program has kinda it's own virtual C drive I can install the game and then once everything is working compress the whole thing and put it on my NAS in case I need to "install" it later. And that is just as simple as unzipping the prefix and fiddling with some paths! I never have to run the installer again! This is AWESOME for things like The Sims 2 that have loads of expansions and I have only ever had to install them all once for years now! Just extract the prefix on a new machine!

Is that an nvme slot? You could put an egpu adapter in there xD (or i dunno, bruh there's a pcie slot where an LP graphics card could go)

Native Linux gaming just no longer makes sense, it takes extra work for devs to fix Linux problems in games, why do that when you can use proton and have a windows version you simultaneously support through proton? A HUGE benifit of proton that is often ignored is that if a game has issues it not entirely on the devs to fix it, if a game has issues through proton it doesn't have on windows, it means that's an issue with proton, not the game, and while the game devs could probably fix it on their end, Valve and the proton developers can fix it on their end as well, native builds rely souley on the game devs

To do native release correctly is to build it against steam runtime libraries and not any libraries from OS. Solves backward compatibility too as it carries library versions from year 2013. Second option is likely to build it to flatpak. Third option is to forgot supporting rolling releases and focus on only stable, properly supported OS releases that are actually used by gamers. We are likely talking stable Debian and Ubuntu releases so releasing game to those and build those again every two years. Derived OSses can run those too but it is their headache. Recompilation happens anyway by pressing button and it is extremely good idea to look code after release and take care that it is not rotten. Indie game developer can also build game to work on some runtime, like build it to wasm and run it on browser. I'm sure that this is game developer skill issue.

PROTON is the unified API that developers develop against. Simple as that.

AMD R5 340x never misses for a dirt cheap GPU, can emulate all the way up to PS2 era, and play PC games from the 2000s and below with ease

I love this channel. I think that modern gamers are spoiled and their definition of "playable" is a little bit to high. Love to see potato PCs playing modern games.

Wow, I can't believe that computer could even run the games at all. Nothing wrong with playing the classic version of RE4 instead! Need to try out Revelations.

"The experience of proton was flawless" Donno man, every game i tried to launch either didn't launch, if it launch its gets stuck in an infinite loading screen, if it gets past the loading screen, the performance is 1/6 of that of windows. Went to protonDB , tried loads of proton versions, tweaks, one or two issues got resolved but still everything was unplayable.

Metro exodus requiring X11 is bonkers. XWayland is supposed to bridge such gaps.

Crazy part is gaming on linux runs smoother for me compared to Win11

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but can you run league of legends on it?

Thanks for the bonus. 🙂

Think about Quadro P400, P620 or P1000. P400 is probably slightly better, more power efficient for sure and you can get one by about the same price. P1000 is a monster ;) (almost), it is more expensive but quite powerful and still very small and power efficient. Also those cards have "true" DirectX 12.1.

Hi there! I am currently looking to buy a surface go (1st gen or maybe 2nd gen, have not decided yet) to use for coding (I am starting to learn coding and looking for backend blockchain development) and need to use it when outside the home (i have a pretty decent pc at home) was wondering if using linux would be better for this purpose compared to windows and if so, which one should i install? Thanks a lot

on Windows in ost cases the libs are packaged in the same directory as the software, on Linux, inmost cases the libs are shared between all the softwares, but, now, we have flatpaks that encapsulate all the libraries and the software itself on a "container" independent of the system libs, solving that problem, but in games, the old method of distribute software is used and flatpaks isn't a reality in that market, because of that, today, proton can be the workaround for the problems in Linux gaming until the developers/ressellers repackage that games in flatpaks.

The problem is not backwards compatibility, the problem is that those games rely on ancient versions of these libraries that are no longer shipped by default with newer distributions. With Windows it's different, most third party libraries are supplied with the game so you don't have to worry about these. But you will find that some older games that use ancient versions of the Direct X API will also have problems with more modern versions of Windows. The reason why this happens on Linux is because you are in an open source environment where every piece of software is meant to be recompiled for your system. The reason why you don't normally have to do this is because package managers ship versions of this software that are compatible with the libraries already provided. And because this is a common and well known problem in Linux, containerization using software such as Flatpaks or even docker is starting to gain popularity, specially among proprietary software. With these, you can ship software with all the precompiled libraries, and make it work in a sandboxed environment without having to worry about libraries being outdated. The solution is simple, ship your games using a container. Problem solved. But because gaming on Linux is just catching up right now, it's going to take a while and older games not developed by Valve are going to run with these issues.

Great videos ! Love your channel man. Keep going

will you nerds please hurry the fuck up we only got a year left on windows 10 and i want a SOLID linux distro. fingers crossed for steam os.

I personally don't care if games are native or not, but I wish devs would at least try to ensure Proton compatibility.

I've always wondered this. Glad someone else took the time to test it!

why didn't you buy rx 580 for 40 usd?

I USE ARCH, BTW

Finally somebody who uses linux instead of windows

I just realized your using the same cpu as me But yours is a amd gpu and am on nvidia

I remember i tried beamng under proton when i load a intensive map it will crash but maps that are not tha intensive

Literally the only reason i use windows is games

A few points. The distribution also matters, Ubuntu/Debian (Ubuntu uses Debian) has older software so that might matter, depending on a number of factors. Just like on Windows you want to use newer drivers for gaming. For native games it is hit or miss, in my experience the older native games of around 2014-2016'ish typically run bettter with Proton than natively. Some games like the latter 2 Tomb Raider games mostly (the snowmap in RotTR is a bit rough, I suspect that the tesellation of the rocks is the cause) work great natively. A good example is Deus Ex Mankind Divided, this game is horribly broken natively and works much better with Proton and dxvk. On that note, some games run a lot better with dxvk than with amdvlk so keep that in mind, examples are Deus Ex MD and StarCraft2 (I had accidentaly amdvlk being used in the past, it was pretty bad for the performance comparatively). So just experiment on a per game basis, try out both if the performance on one is less satisfying and definitely make dxvk the default Vulkan-loader for your games, you can set this with an environment variable. However, some games require amdvlk so if a game does not start then keep in mind to make that game use amdvlk.

the ONLY reason im not using linux for my main os is because of HDR, it just sucks ass at hdr especially if you try vrr and hdr at same time, the free online shooters are for retards so i dont play those lmao, and still hdr is a no go for me, im not gonna have to use a shitty monitor because of linux

Just upgraded from mini pc's and a steam deck to a full blown gaming desktop build, complete with 1440p ultrawide... but I'll never forget my roots of squeezing as many frames as possible out of a little block of angry hot sand. Excited to see more content!

2:40 No I think that's the whole 'problem' you are trying to present. One funny thing I noticed was the lack of Valve games in testing. If they are the one's making proton, I would sure hope their native builds are much more then most other games. You are correct in that a single compatibility layer is what Linux gaming really needs to succeed, but studios have this option to some degree with the steam Linux runtime.

Na, not even going to complain because this video is totally on point. Linux was never designed with proprietary software in mind and running old Linux games can be a nightmare. Comparatively running Old windows games on Linux is easier then it is on windows.

How did you manage to buy that GPU for 10 euros? I would like to do the same upgrade.

My laptop is very very potato😢 my laptop is samsung NP100NZC 2gb ram,ssd 240gb and use windows 7

i prefer devs to focus fully on windows version of games so i can use proton with them instead of them wasting time to half-ass native linux versions

I like how you can hear that this person is german (im also german)😅

interesting. how's wayland getting along with radeon ?

i don't know exactly how well these work under the hood but would anybody mind if they just statically linked their binaries or deploy their native versions in a sort of containerized manner like flatpacks or snaps ? would that be feasible ?

Just bought a 1660 super for 55€ last week. Sadly my i7 8700 cant handle it good with 165hz/fps the stutters are crazy and the 1660 s chilling with 30percent

I think modern gamers are spoiled, and many of the most popular review sites push the agenda that unless you're getting 300+ fps then your 2 year-old hardware sucks and you just need to upgrade to this *sponsored item*. It's surprising just how well old hardware can run modern games. Until recently I was running a 12 year-old CPU (Intel 3960X, 6 core) on a X99 motherboard with a GTX 970. It ran every single game I threw at it, although obviously it was starting to show its age in a few games such as BG3 and struggled with its 4Gb video card ram. But as a kid or teenager I would have LOVED a system that could perform as well as this.