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, 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
Finally a video from someone who's fed up with windows using an Nvidia graphics card and using bazzite. And you show that productivity apps work as well 👍 I will try using bazzite your video got me hyped up to finally making the jump to Linux 😁
Ah that's great, thanks very much! If you run into any issues, send a message over on here, and it would be great to hear you've gotten on well with it! I'll keep an eye out 💙
Huh. My takeaway here is be annoyed alittle all the time. Or be very annoyed periodically and randomly. Would love to leave windows. But not if every game I install requires some tweak launch option or half my equipment doesn't work.
Ive had 0 tweaks needed for games to launch them. Ive had those on windows tho. On the gear so far only my 7 euro usb wifi dongle did not work. If you only game and use internet libux is just fine. And more users more support for gear and games. Companies like money.
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.
I was not able to try brazzite, had error, checksum fail i think. Went with cachy, no hiccups for now and was as easy as installing gaming package, log in, install games and play, I'm playing cyberpunk and division 2 mostly. Definitely will set windows aside
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
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! 😆
This video came up in my recommendations and I enjoyed watching it. I’m really pleased that you are enjoying Bazzite! It seems to be very popular among gamers and that’s great news for the Bazzite devs who can concentrate on getting the compatibility bugs ironed out for all the pieces of software that people want to use along with their games. A bigger market share for Linux amongst gamers also means that studios will be more likely to create native Linux versions of their games in the future. These are exciting times all around. Happy gaming!
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
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.
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 :)
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.
@@ukGage I switched in the last few months and have recently been playing around with sunshine on my main pc in the office, and then a moonlight client on my Apple TV in the lounge - I did play with the steam link app but it was causing issues for me (YMMV)
Hello. Thank you for sharing your experience with Bazzite. I'm currently in the process of converting to this distro myself. I have zero experience with Linux, so for the last two weeks I've been installing different major distros on a older MSI gaming laptop with an Nvidia gpu, to get a feel for them and how they work with Nvidia drivers and the games I play before I commit my modest gaming rig to it. Also trying to soak up as much info as I can from my fellow Linex newbies 😁, as well as the seasoned hands who post profound bits of wisdom on the subject. Glad to hear the switch is going so well for you! Can't wait till I get mine set up.
I hope it all goes well for you! Even now I've had no problems at all. It's basically all become second nature. I hardly ever have to use the console to get anything done, only if I'm following a guide on something I'm trying to learn about the innards a bit more, but for standard use it's as simple as using the Flatpaks, downloading an app image or unzipping a tar. The only thing I've still not been able to get working right is Affinity Designer but it looks like other Nvidia users have had the same issue as well so I think I'm just going to stick to Krita. I originally installed it into a new partition and shrunk my windows partition down but I never had a need to go back to it so it's completely gone now. I have a windows VM for a few things for firmware updates (Logitech keyboard and mouse, Beacn mic, stream decks) but that's it.
@@ukGage Online guides with console commands are probably a reason why an immutable distro is great for newcomers, they can be outdated and break stuff
One of the cool things about stuff like Bazzite is that even though it's made to work well for those new to Linux, it's also pretty good for experienced Linux users as well. I switched to Arch Linux like 3 and a half years ago on my gaming machine, but now it is running Bluefin, which is a sister distro of Bazzite and is pretty similar in most ways. I actually originally installed Bazzite, but found out some developer tooling was missing, and then found out you could switch between them without even reinstalling anything. Steam has a flatpak version and that has worked for me without issues. I've also been using Bazzite for many months kn my Steam Deck, since it can do the same "game mode" interface with all the special stuff that usually only the Steam Deck has. The ability to have completely automatic background updates and never have to ever see an update screen is very very nice.
That's good to know, I've been intrigued reading how users of different experience levels have liked or not liked Bazzite (or immutable distros in general). For me it's the perfect setup. As I learn more, I may dual boot something more breakable so I can have a tinker under the hood. My son has a steam deck and I've been weighing up whether to try it on that. We had windeck on it for a bit because of how much he loves Fortnite but we're back to SteamOS on it now after numerous boot failures. He actually uses it as a desktop now more than a handheld do Bazzite in desktop mode might be better for him. Thanks for taking the time to comment, I'm learning lots 🙂
@ukGage The main thing that attracted me on the Steam Deck was that Bazzite updates Flatpak apps as part of system updates, and the update button in the Game Mode interface uses Bazzite's system standard system update method. I have emulators on my deck installed as flatpaks (through Emudeck) and on Bazzite I can upgrade these without having to go into desktop mode. That said, if you want to tinker with mutable Linux stuff, Bazzite includes a really great tool called distrobox that lets you run nearly any other distro from inside Bazzite with essentially no performance or power usage penalty. I think they also include a frontend for it called BoxBuddy. It's basically a "Linux subsystem for Linux", when you're inside a distrobox you have the same home folder but everything outside the home folder is a different distro.
That's a good point. I will use your knowledge to try and convince him later 😁 He's 8 but has already become a mini expert on all things SteamOS, I love to see it
@@ukGage You might wanna check out distrobox. You can run nearly any mutable distro inside of it with essentially no performance loss and it's included in Bazzite by default.
@@ukGage Also, you might wanna check out distrobox. You can run nearly any mutable distro inside of it with essentially no performance loss and it's included in Bazzite by default. It's been included by default in SteamOS for about a year as well.
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.
I've never used Bazzite itself, but I have used Bluefin and Aurora (which are kind of like the non-gaming Gnome and KDE siblings of Bazzite) and have been incredibly impressed with both. Great to hear you've had such good experiences as well :)
Welcome to the land of the penguin! I've been using linux exclusively for several years now. It's very rewarding. I never got into immutable distros, but it seems they're catching on with the new users.
Yeah it was a selling point to me for switching. I don't know if they'd suit a more experienced user but coming over and knowing very little beforehand, it's been great having a safe environment to be in. I'm not sure I have a reason to switch away, it does everything I want and anything that's been difficult or blocked I've been able to do in DistroBox
As a Linux person. I'm very impressed with your setup and how quickly you've got into Linux. Bazzite seems to work very well for you. So you made the right choice there. I'm using different Linux distributions on different machines (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavourOS, SteamOS). None is really better than the other over all, but each works better or worse on a specific machine or with a specific use case.
I switched to linux 6 months ago, i chose garuda dragonized, genuinely love it. Everything works great, now im starting to learn to konsole commands im on a roll ❤
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 finally got off of Windows and fully moved to Linux in June of '24. My distro choice was (and still is) Mint Cinnamon. I've been, like yourself, extremely happy with Linux. And, like your experiencing, I've got any essential software from Windows running under Linux. And my entire Steam library of games works great, too. A few of them (like KSP and a couple of the Warhammer games) have Linux native releases. The Windows-only games do seem to run better, too. I'm not sure about the overall framerate differences, but stutters during game play are significantly fewer than they were with Windows. And some of the Windows games needed just a little tweaking (in the form of selecting a different release of Proton to run under) to get them working right. I'm happy for you. My main reason for the move to Linux was about privacy. Microsoft no longer knows, or cares, about what privacy is. They now only care about how much money they can earn from the data they collect about you. (More than 5000 telemetry events a day full of "diagnostic" information from the average persons computer with Windows 10. More with Windows 11. And Windows 11 blatantly admits to key & click logging, and anyone using Windows 11 agrees to it in the EULA. Disgraceful.) (Edited for a spelling error. Oops.)
That's great that you've been using it for this long and still having a good time. I really haven't missed it. I know what you mean on the privacy side of things. Even on my business laptop, there's so much that attempts to go out, it's pretty shocking
@@ukGage It's more hidden in the Windows 10 EULA, but the Windows 11 EULA requires you to agree to being both key-logged and click-logged by Microsoft. Even the installer for Windows 11 hints pretty strongly at the key- and click-logging.
Just dropped win11 for Bazzite today, and man I missed linux. I used to run Fedora so luckily bazzite is pretty familiar to me, but everything just works so well. lightweight, snappy, good feature set for non - linux powerusers. Great video
Love this video, I've already purchased a second SSD with the intention of trying PopOS! and I'm hoping I have a similar experience. I'm looking forward to learning new things and I hope that I can one day help to make Linux more suitable for others.
Thank you very much! I hope your install and experience goes well. I'd love to hear back from you, so if you feel like it, reply back here with how it's gone! I'm learning lots from others making the move 🙂
I'm not the person to ask I'm afraid. I say it in the video, this is my first and only experience using Linux at home so I can only say how good Bazzite has been for me moving over from Windows. There's lots of people commenting so perhaps someone more experienced will be able to lend some insight :)
That the base system just like SteamOS is immutable as default which makes it more difficult to bork the system and even if you bork it it will recover to base on a reset/restart.
I made the switch to Linux just about 2 months ago, and only booted back to windows 11 once since. Everything runs the same, or has an alternative (such as Joplin to replace OneNote). I went with Pop OS, but Bazzite looks good and may be an option down the road. Perhaps replace that windows installation and dual-boot Thanks for the comments.
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.
@@eps-nx8zg Calling GiB and GB 'completely different units' is very misleading, especially when it comes to RAM. The term "gigabyte," abbreviated "GB," was originally applied to common computer units based on powers of 2. So "gigabyte" meant 1024 megabytes, "megabyte" meant 1024 kilobytes, and "kilobyte" meant 1024 bytes. However, disk manufacturers would sometimes use powers of ten rather than powers of two, especially since it made their drives sound bigger. This meant that "gigabyte" for them could mean 1000 megabytes, and so on. In 1995, IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) decided that they were going to fix this discrepancy by instituting new names for units based on the powers of 2. Instead of "gigabyte" there would be "gibibyte," abbreviated GiB, instead of "megabyte" there would be "mebibyte" and so on (the second syllable was pronounced like "bee" in these new units). In 1999 the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) decided to adopt this standard, theoretically making it a standard in the industry, so since then people were supposed to adopt this new nomenclature. However, in practice, most people never started using the new nomenclature and continued to refer to units based on powers of two with the terms that are now considered by the IEC to be for powers of ten. Nine times out of ten, when you hear people talk about "gigabytes" they mean what the IEC technically refers to as "gibibytes" now. With RAM, people are never referring to the powers of ten units, whether they are using GB or GiB, so the distinction between the terms is really irrelevant to this discussion. When you hear people say "32 gigabytes of RAM" they always mean 1024 megabytes/mebibytes rather than 1000. In other words, people always mean gibibytes (GiB) even if they say gigabytes (GB). Some of the 32 GB of memory that is not available is reserved for the system, but most of it is reserved for video RAM, and that is almost certainly why you see the discrepancy, and the discrepancy is not related to any difference between units. If we were talking about disk space, then the discrepancy most likely would be about the differences between the units (plus formatted vs unformatted space in some cases), but we're not talking about disk space.
@@ukGage My post has disappeared for me now. I have to suspect that it was reported for some supposed infraction, and taken down by a bot. Perhaps it will get reinstated at a later time if it gets reviewed.
Great video, I've been using Nobora for a while now and can't complain. But having watched your video I decided I would give it a go. Have you managed to boot direct to desktop mode on start up with Bazzite? Thanks
Thank you very much! Because I'm on the Nvidia image, it doesn't support the game mode so goes straight to desktop for me but I've seen others mention on their discord that they can switch the boot method.
@@ukGage thanks for getting back to me, I am also on Nvidia but there is no option to boot straight to desktop. I will keep searching online for a work around. Thank s
At that's great! If you're on Nvidia though, definitely double check you installed the Nvidia iso as I believe it contains lots of Nvidia specific bits for improved performance
I am a very long time Linux user, I started with RedHat6 on KDE 2.0 and Nvidia Xfree86 driver 0.9. back around y2k. I got Quake3 Arena running on Linux with the nvidia driver and had a nerd badge of honor among my friends. Linux gaming was something I only did intermittently back in the day due to game support (RIP Loki) , nowadays its my primary gaming OS. Ive been daily driving OpenSuse Tumbleweed as my goto gaming OS for the last 3 years. I am interested in Bazzite, mostly just to try something new. I can do everything I need to do on OpenSuse but a lot of manual installation and troubleshooting is required, having a more gaming focused distro with a lot of the hard work already done would be a refreshing change of pace. The Tumbleweed repos are still on the 550 branch of the NVIDIA driver, I just recently had to manually install 565.77 to get newer driver features (explicit sync support for Wayland).
3:53 I don't know if anyone has said this yet but the reason it says 30.5 instead of 32 is because Linux likes to use GiB or Gibibytes instead of GB or Gigabytes. GiB = 1024 MiB = 1024 KiB = 1024 Bytes GB = 1000 MB = 1000 KB = 1000 Bytes. So those extra 24s add up to a smaller looking number but it's the same amount.
CachyOS is also an amazing Arch Linux distribution Beginner friendly, Tried Bazzite its awesome , PopOS also great. those are my 3 favorite distrop so far CachyOs being the top 1 and PopOs third. P.s Lutris use Wine and its not a emulator its a translation layer
So is Manjaro in its many flavours of DE and WM. For a beginner KDE Plasma is the best as it looks the most like Windows. The KDE Plasma full version comes with Steam preinstalled, auto starting on boot and multilib enabled for 32 bit support if you wanna run some older games.
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
I wish you a long and prosperous Linux adventure. Pave it - Learn from it - Nuke it - Repave it again - over and over - as we learn and enjoy. One thing I've come to do over the years is to make sure I keep a text file with all the tricks and tips and settings that help me. Enjoy.
Thanks! Keeping notes is a really good idea. I made myself a discord server a while ago just for me and I've been using the channels and what not for note keeping and planning.
I started my linux journey about 3 weeks ago running PikaOS. There has been some learning curve and some playing around under the hood, but so far ive only booted into windows for school related stuff. I would try removing firefox in the console and reinstalling it.
I've never heard of PikaOS, will definitely give it a look. Tried that a few times. It does the same with the Firefox variants I've tried as well. I've installed it from flatpak and appimage and it's the same so I can only assume it's something with this version of Bazzite. Ended up installing Brave and that's been fine.
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'.
So to game capture with obs through bassite, you need to add env line of code etc for every game (through Steam or the individual game options)? And is that vkcapture an addon we need to also install?
That's the way I do it but there is also a way to do it in steam at a global level so you only do it once. I don't do that because I also run stream avatars through steam so I use the window capture for that and the vk capture for the games. Yeah VK capture is on flatpak so it's really easy. When you find OBS on discovery, there's a tab on its page at the top right called "add-ons" and it's in there. You then just add a "game capture" source and then it will pick up any thing with the environment variable specified
I did the same as you, after 20+ years went to Linux and never looked back. I am using Pop OS, it is pretty easy to set up and worked fine but I am feeling the lack of new features for the UI as System76 is no longer updating gnome, rather they are writing their own DE. I am getting a new rig soon and I will likely do some distro hopping, Bazzite now will be my first (and hopefully only) hop.
I hope it works out for you! It's been perfect for me to date. From the point of view of turn it on, play games, do my work, and general use I couldn't ask for a better experience. That's exactly what I wanted. The only tinkering I've had to do is with Marvel Rivals but it's been something sorted in minutes
If you have done server stuff then your linux start is greater than most beginners. Using Mint since 2008 but only made the final cut away from W10 last February, hope it all works out for you. 🙂
It was a very limited set of things on an old red hat server for a phone system many years ago. I'd like to say it gave me some expertise but it was run a few bits in the console on one of those servers with what was basically a pull out laptop... I'm getting old 🤣
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.
If remote play on PS5 supports gyro aiming on PC through a USB connection, try giving learning gyro aim a shot in Fortnite (and any other game on PC that supports native gyro aim on PS4/PS5 controllers)! Now I will say this: Getting PC ports that use audio-based haptic feedback on a PS5 controller (like "Ghostwire: Tokyo") is a bit of a faff every time. It needs a wired connection for the controller (like adaptive triggers), disabling Steam Input if using the Steam version, and using a program for Pipewire (forgot the name] to connect the game's audio to the controller's "rear speakers". Works once it's done, and can be used to give the DualSense such feedback in ANY game.
That does sound interesting! I wonder if Chiaki supports it. I've actually not tried using my PS5 controller with Chiaki supporting my pc controller. Will give it a whirl, thank you!
For obs, is there an option to install it as portable obs? (I have obs on Windows setup as portable on an external ssd so I can plush into any pc and have everything setup) thanks!!
There is, and although it's not been updated for a while it's not difficult to update the OBS version in there. I'm actually thinking of switching over to this one because some plugins don't work with the Flatpak version that do in the standalone version. Here's the link, it's bundled with loads of plugins also so it's a nice starting place github.com/wimpysworld/obs-studio-portable
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!
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
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.
I've been gaming on Linux for close to 3 years and hardly needed Windows for anything (just update Xbox controller firmwares but I just use my wife's laptop for that!). I've been playing with some complex peripherals like flight sticks, driving wheels and pedals and they all work fantastically.
That's great! Yeah my wife has windows on her laptop so I can quickly do my firmware updates there. I've got a VM for it but it is a bit of a faff as putting my decks and mic on pass through means (for me at least!) when I come out of the VM they're in an almost crashed state and don't return to how I have them in linux until I restart. That's good to know about the extra peripherals - My son has a quest vr headset, and although I don't ever play VR titles I'm interested in seeing if I can get it to work with the pc as a (hopefully small!) project
@@ukGage I'm glad to say that Quest headsets also work. It's a bit more fiddly to get setup because you wouldn't use the official Meta app, but it works well both cabled and wireless using ALVR or WiVRn. I'm not sure they would work on Bazzite since you can only install Flatpaks (and these apps do not have Flatpak versions yet) but you can always do some research about them. Good luck!
Thank you! I've been able to install things outside of discovery already so that gives me a bit of hope that it's possible. Playing something like Phasmophobia in VR appeals 🤣
I have tried Ubuntu, mint and cachyOS LTS versions. When I play games, I get a FPS drop when I move the cursor with the mouse, but there is no FPS drop with touchpad. I tried gnome, KDE and hyprland as DE but the result is the same.
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?
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/
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.
@@YeaSeb. "You can try waydroid, I don't think it runs Out of the box on bazzite..." They literally mention Waydroid and recommend you use it on the Bazzite homepage.
@@ukGage yes, that too. Kernel AC is a no go until they also create a kernel module for Linux, which is possible but would require people to sudo install it. Personally I would never do that.
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.
If you want to show fps with inside steam games or anything that runs DXVK there is an environment variable DXVK_HUD setting it's value to "full" will show you all options like heap size, buffer etc but if all you want is fps DXVK_HUD=fps gets you there.
I am curious what resolution your monitor is running. I have found some games have weird mouse cursor resizing on 4K. Also the laptop, does it have built in buttons for like performance modes or screen refresh modes.? I have a lenovo gaming laptop and find under linux the change screen refresh buttons or power mode switching doesn't seem to work. . .
My laptop screen and monitor are both 240hz and I run at 1440p. No issues with any resizing in my setup. It does have buttons for keyboard rgb and fan control which didn't work until I installed the open source version of the Asus control centre and mapped the keys. I actually never use them though, for performance modes I use my stream deck rather than the gui and for my RGB I set it to the rainbow setting and leave it at that
I See Affinity Designer on the bottom right. Did you actually manage to make it work on Linux? as far as I know Affinity Suite doesn't have a native Linux port, You running it through Wine?
Yeah it works okay ish. I wouldn't call it fully usable but I can do bits on it. The right click menus don't work, sometimes resizing things cause it to crash. It's definitely in the few things I put in the "this is a faff" category. I've seen mixed results for it though, have a search for affinity designer elemental warrior and that will take you to the different ways to install it. Using Lutris was the best one for me but there's a manual process and a heroic launcher process also
Trust me, you want game-mode, it does restrict you to one monitor, but it essentially eliminates the desktop for performances sake. 1% lows are really good as a result.
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a go when it becomes available to Nvidia users but I'm really happy with it as it is and don't have any performance issues. If I was on a handheld then I'd 100% want game mode, but on my laptop, a desktop experience is what I'm after
The layman's way to explain an immutable system (because the technical, actual definition is nonsensical IMO) is basically that you can't modify things outside of user directories without going through extra steps to enable doing it. Depending on how exactly a system update is handled by a distro (i.e. SteamOS and Bazzite) a system update will also reset any changes the user *did* make in non-user directories. You CAN absolutely mess things up with an immutable system, and even so if you only modify stuff in your home directories (like recently with some community addons for plasma had royal f'k'd up things), but chances of this happening (and the general degree of catastrophe) are so small that it's fair to say you can't really mess up your system.
You should try uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox to see if that clears up the issue. I'm trying Bazzite-deck in a vm on CachyOS with another vm w Garuda-Hyprland - should be interesting to see some of the differences.
I've got an Nvidia 4090 and it's the same driver setup so that should be fine. I use my wireless keyboard and mouse with usb but my keyboard has Bluetooth and when I tested that originally it worked the same as with the usb dongle 🙂 this is all on Bazzite without any tinkering, I think with other OS's you might need to go and sort the Nvidia drivers manually
I can see you asked about WWE 2K24 also but the notification won't take me to the comment. Yes you can! It's in the video as one of the games I show. I've played lots more since and it runs perfectly. I'm running it from Steam 🙂
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.
I'm running Linux as a daily driver for job/personal tasks on a Beelink Mini-PC for some time now. Also use it for mid-tier gaming and emulation of old computers like Amiga, C-64. Running on Pop_OS! 22.04 currently, although it's pretty outdated in the base packages. Can't wait for the 24.04 release with the new Cosmic desktop environment. And I find gaming on Linux very straightforward these days, only a few things you have to be careful about, otherwise it's quite easy to maintain. I'm only switching to Windows 11 on my beefy main PC for anti-cheat dependent titles like Fortnite, GTA Online and such. As soon as the anticheat situation is somehow solved for online gaming, I will completely switch to Linux.
Yeah I've been really surprised how smooth it all is. Cracking kernel level anti cheat seems to be the main stopper I think for lots of people fully switching. With any luck, some of the game devs will either stop using it or find another way that will work over here
If you use fixed releases for gaming on Linux you will always be outdated. Linux gaming machines are preferred to use a rolling release like Arch so you are always up to date with the most recent kernel and drivers. Manjaro can offer you everything Vanilla Arch has but is more beginner friendly because it will always start as stable out of the box whereas Vanilla Arch defaults to bleeding edge only. You can change the status to experimental or bleeding edge from the terminal in Manjaro (not recommended for noobs).
I have discovered Linux gaming about 2 years ago and tried so much different distros (except some really niche ones) like PopOS, Nobara, Fedora, Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS and so on. I almost run any game on Linux except the games with kernel-level anti-cheat and only 1-2 game with critical errors that i can't find any solution on the internet. Also with the Valve's invests on Linux gaming gives more hope.
I sold my PC and laptop and I’m now exclusive on PS5 Pro because W11 basically bricked the last four laptops/desktops I bought and I said “enough is enough”. Sure I miss my Steam library but tbh most of the early access and PC exclusives will come to PS5 eventually and I love being able to press the PS logo on my controller, then the LG 75’ OLED turns itself on and I’m up and gaming in 30 seconds. No drivers, no updates that break the OS, no blue screen of death. I’m done with Windows until either MS sort their shit out or SteamOS can be installed with nVidia hardware and DLLS 4. Meantime I am gaming without stress!
That's what it's all about for me! Whatever means you can press "on", load your game and relax, it's what we all need. Glad it's working for you as is. I have a Switch and PS5 as well and between those and my laptop, I'm all set for gaming solo or with the family 😁
Flatpak is a technology that allows software to run in a contained environment which means that the applications within it have to get permission to use USB devices for example. There is a program that is also a flatpak called flatseal which gives you a nice interface to check some boxes to add permissions for other flatpaks like discord for example. On a traditional Linux system, applications are not contained and can sometimes be more compatible due to the lack of containers being used.
I have a ThinkPad t530 with the Ubuntu on it, I have a Lenovo g700 and I'm to put bazzite on it and figure it out use it as a testing, then put it as a dual boot on my gaming rig.
Hopefully it's as smooth sailing as it's been for me. It's the only Distro I've used so I've got nothing to compare against (other than windows) but its been brilliant
That's really interesting, I'll have to have a play with it and see. I've had lots of Ubuntu recommendations although, I'm happy with Bazzite as is. Maybe I'll get more adventurous in the future 😁
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.
What GPU are you using and if it's AMD how did you run davinci resolve. My 6600m has never worked with davinci resolve since AMD doesn't have proper opencl on Linux. NM I see you're using Nvidia. I suppose I might try a Bazzite setup with a Nvidia laptop. I like Linux Mint, but asusctl developer isn't supporting Ubuntu.
Yeah I'm on Nvidia in my laptop. Resolve works but it still has issues with plugin support so I end up recording on the format I want in OBS and then converting. It's fallen into the "this is a faff" category for me over the last couple of weeks!
Neither does Windows have any proper opencl for AMD GPU simply because AMD does not use CUDA cores. It is not the reason for Davinci Resolve not working, the reason is that you installed/selected a driver which your system is unable to work with and as thus get errors when the system tries to address hardware which is not there. Uninstalling/not selecting the opencl driver and installing/selecting Vulkan instead will fix the problem. Opencl works fine on Linux but just like on Windows needs a Nvidia GPU with CUDA cores to fully function. If anything AMD is the better choice on Linux because Nvidia sucks, ask Linus or Valve. There is a reason the SteamDeck is full AMD.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard I'm not sure I get what you're saying. What do you mean by selecting opencl or vulkan driver? Nvidia might be proprietary, but it's been the only effective way of running davinci resolve in Linux. AMD has had proprietary opencl drivers that have at times worked with Davinci Resolve as well as rocm, but both have been unstable and liable to break when updating. I've been running Nvidia in Linux for both Davinci Resolve and wine/dxvk gaming and have never had issues. I keep a 6600m GPU just to keep an eye on if AMD will ever have opencl properly implemented in Linux. This is a widely known issue among Linux users. It's just that most users only think about gaming so they consider AMD the end all be all in Linux.
@@dp27thelight9 Well I am running Davinci Resolve on Vulkan and have no problems whatsoever on Linux. Don't forget to disable Wayland as Davinci resolve will bork on Wayland.
Fall guys must be a recent change because it definitely did run on linux in the past. I have personally played it on my linux machine through the steam client.
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!
Im on low spec PC (Ryzen 3 1200 + RX 560) and I tried running some windows games using proton, surprisingly most of them running better on Linux for example No Mans Sky run very smooth 60fps while on windows it get only 30-50 stuttering hell.
Thank you! I'd come to that conclusion few days ago after some more noodling. I hadn't realised before as it's entirely disabled in BIOS so I assumed it couldn't be that!
30:33 As someone who has been using Linux since 1997; don't apologize for making it look like Windows. Customisation and freedom of choice are supposed to be celebrated. Make it look, feel and work however you want! Make it yours. This is the Linux way.
Thank you 💙 I'm really happy with my setup and I'm learning lots every day from the small community on this post. I keep thinking about making a discord but not sure how useful it would be!
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 🙂
Not to be that guy but Flatpak is not the store, Flatpak is the packaging. Anyways Bazzite is the best choice for you even if KDE (the desktop environment of Bazzite) can break at times if you customize it too much. Probably the best for any ex Windows user, Gnome for ex Mac users.
@@ukGage Hope you never have to switch back, just in case i can recommend Nobara Linux (and to any any PC Gamer that wants to try Linux) for the Gnome flavor of this. :) For the annoyance with Firefox is probably something to do with that particular installation since i use both KDE and FIrefox combo as daily driver and it works like it should. if it persists you can install any browser you need from the store, even Edge, and remove Firefox. It's always a choice in Linux :)
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.
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 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.
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
As someone who made this switch like... 6 months ago?, this was entertaining. I've used Linux since the 90s, but not really for desktop. I like to say that it's not that Linux has gotten so great (it's somewhere around "good" not necessarily great), it's that Microsoft has FUBARed Windows. I can't stand when I have to boot into Windows for Game Pass.
Thanks for all the comments so far, I've got plenty of notes of things to try and have already learnt lots more 💙
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 😁
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
Finally a video from someone who's fed up with windows using an Nvidia graphics card and using bazzite. And you show that productivity apps work as well 👍 I will try using bazzite your video got me hyped up to finally making the jump to Linux 😁
Ah that's great, thanks very much! If you run into any issues, send a message over on here, and it would be great to hear you've gotten on well with it! I'll keep an eye out 💙
Using linux is like discovering Windows XP when you were a kid, except the novelty never wears off.
Because there's a new problem to solve every day?
Huh. My takeaway here is be annoyed alittle all the time. Or be very annoyed periodically and randomly. Would love to leave windows. But not if every game I install requires some tweak launch option or half my equipment doesn't work.
@@jarod1701 Kinda like windows 11
@ Keep telling yourself that 🤣
Ive had 0 tweaks needed for games to launch them. Ive had those on windows tho.
On the gear so far only my 7 euro usb wifi dongle did not work.
If you only game and use internet libux is just fine. And more users more support for gear and games. Companies like money.
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.
I was not able to try brazzite, had error, checksum fail i think.
Went with cachy, no hiccups for now and was as easy as installing gaming package, log in, install games and play, I'm playing cyberpunk and division 2 mostly.
Definitely will set windows aside
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
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 🤣
Well you've got a new sub, and I've been using GNU/Linux Distros, since 1994.
Welcome to the club
Thanks very much 🙂
This video came up in my recommendations and I enjoyed watching it. I’m really pleased that you are enjoying Bazzite! It seems to be very popular among gamers and that’s great news for the Bazzite devs who can concentrate on getting the compatibility bugs ironed out for all the pieces of software that people want to use along with their games. A bigger market share for Linux amongst gamers also means that studios will be more likely to create native Linux versions of their games in the future.
These are exciting times all around. Happy gaming!
Thank you very much! I'm hoping more people make the switch as it's genuinely a brilliant experience
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.
Most multiplayer games work except the ones using kernel anticheat where the devs have decided to ban Linux gamers.
@@ukGage Probably games with kernel level anti-cheat requirements.
I love when people have a good time using Linux.
Still no complaints a month later 🙂
The willingness to learn goes a long way and most people give up if anything doesn't work immediately.
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.
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 🤣
I appreciate how humble your demeanor is!
Thanks very much!
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.
@@ukGage I switched in the last few months and have recently been playing around with sunshine on my main pc in the office, and then a moonlight client on my Apple TV in the lounge - I did play with the steam link app but it was causing issues for me (YMMV)
I've just installed the sunshine app myself to give it a try as well!
Hello. Thank you for sharing your experience with Bazzite.
I'm currently in the process of converting to this distro myself.
I have zero experience with Linux, so for the last two weeks I've been installing different major distros on a older MSI gaming laptop with an Nvidia gpu, to get a feel for them and how they work with Nvidia drivers and the games I play before I commit my modest gaming rig to it.
Also trying to soak up as much info as I can from my fellow Linex newbies 😁, as well as the seasoned hands who post profound bits of wisdom on the subject.
Glad to hear the switch is going so well for you! Can't wait till I get mine set up.
I hope it all goes well for you! Even now I've had no problems at all. It's basically all become second nature. I hardly ever have to use the console to get anything done, only if I'm following a guide on something I'm trying to learn about the innards a bit more, but for standard use it's as simple as using the Flatpaks, downloading an app image or unzipping a tar.
The only thing I've still not been able to get working right is Affinity Designer but it looks like other Nvidia users have had the same issue as well so I think I'm just going to stick to Krita.
I originally installed it into a new partition and shrunk my windows partition down but I never had a need to go back to it so it's completely gone now. I have a windows VM for a few things for firmware updates (Logitech keyboard and mouse, Beacn mic, stream decks) but that's it.
@@ukGage Online guides with console commands are probably a reason why an immutable distro is great for newcomers, they can be outdated and break stuff
Yeah that makes sense. I try to be careful anyway 🤣
I will leave the video running in the background for the watch time. Thank you for your service of trying Linux
Thanks 🙂
One of the cool things about stuff like Bazzite is that even though it's made to work well for those new to Linux, it's also pretty good for experienced Linux users as well. I switched to Arch Linux like 3 and a half years ago on my gaming machine, but now it is running Bluefin, which is a sister distro of Bazzite and is pretty similar in most ways.
I actually originally installed Bazzite, but found out some developer tooling was missing, and then found out you could switch between them without even reinstalling anything. Steam has a flatpak version and that has worked for me without issues. I've also been using Bazzite for many months kn my Steam Deck, since it can do the same "game mode" interface with all the special stuff that usually only the Steam Deck has.
The ability to have completely automatic background updates and never have to ever see an update screen is very very nice.
That's good to know, I've been intrigued reading how users of different experience levels have liked or not liked Bazzite (or immutable distros in general). For me it's the perfect setup. As I learn more, I may dual boot something more breakable so I can have a tinker under the hood.
My son has a steam deck and I've been weighing up whether to try it on that. We had windeck on it for a bit because of how much he loves Fortnite but we're back to SteamOS on it now after numerous boot failures. He actually uses it as a desktop now more than a handheld do Bazzite in desktop mode might be better for him.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, I'm learning lots 🙂
@ukGage The main thing that attracted me on the Steam Deck was that Bazzite updates Flatpak apps as part of system updates, and the update button in the Game Mode interface uses Bazzite's system standard system update method. I have emulators on my deck installed as flatpaks (through Emudeck) and on Bazzite I can upgrade these without having to go into desktop mode.
That said, if you want to tinker with mutable Linux stuff, Bazzite includes a really great tool called distrobox that lets you run nearly any other distro from inside Bazzite with essentially no performance or power usage penalty. I think they also include a frontend for it called BoxBuddy. It's basically a "Linux subsystem for Linux", when you're inside a distrobox you have the same home folder but everything outside the home folder is a different distro.
That's a good point. I will use your knowledge to try and convince him later 😁 He's 8 but has already become a mini expert on all things SteamOS, I love to see it
@@ukGage You might wanna check out distrobox. You can run nearly any mutable distro inside of it with essentially no performance loss and it's included in Bazzite by default.
@@ukGage Also, you might wanna check out distrobox. You can run nearly any mutable distro inside of it with essentially no performance loss and it's included in Bazzite by default. It's been included by default in SteamOS for about a year as well.
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!
I've never used Bazzite itself, but I have used Bluefin and Aurora (which are kind of like the non-gaming Gnome and KDE siblings of Bazzite) and have been incredibly impressed with both. Great to hear you've had such good experiences as well :)
Yeah it's been brilliant! It's been so good that I don't even really think about it now as switching, everything is just natural
Welcome to the land of the penguin! I've been using linux exclusively for several years now. It's very rewarding. I never got into immutable distros, but it seems they're catching on with the new users.
Yeah it was a selling point to me for switching. I don't know if they'd suit a more experienced user but coming over and knowing very little beforehand, it's been great having a safe environment to be in. I'm not sure I have a reason to switch away, it does everything I want and anything that's been difficult or blocked I've been able to do in DistroBox
As a Linux person. I'm very impressed with your setup and how quickly you've got into Linux. Bazzite seems to work very well for you. So you made the right choice there.
I'm using different Linux distributions on different machines (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavourOS, SteamOS). None is really better than the other over all, but each works better or worse on a specific machine or with a specific use case.
Thank you! I've really enjoyed getting everything sorted. It's all pretty natural now 🙂
I switched to linux 6 months ago, i chose garuda dragonized, genuinely love it. Everything works great, now im starting to learn to konsole commands im on a roll ❤
That's brilliant! Glad it's going well for you! I need to start learning more on the console for sure!
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
Small tip for KDE Plasma (what he's using), if you don't like something, there's probably a setting for it.
I finally got off of Windows and fully moved to Linux in June of '24. My distro choice was (and still is) Mint Cinnamon. I've been, like yourself, extremely happy with Linux. And, like your experiencing, I've got any essential software from Windows running under Linux. And my entire Steam library of games works great, too. A few of them (like KSP and a couple of the Warhammer games) have Linux native releases. The Windows-only games do seem to run better, too. I'm not sure about the overall framerate differences, but stutters during game play are significantly fewer than they were with Windows. And some of the Windows games needed just a little tweaking (in the form of selecting a different release of Proton to run under) to get them working right.
I'm happy for you. My main reason for the move to Linux was about privacy. Microsoft no longer knows, or cares, about what privacy is. They now only care about how much money they can earn from the data they collect about you. (More than 5000 telemetry events a day full of "diagnostic" information from the average persons computer with Windows 10. More with Windows 11. And Windows 11 blatantly admits to key & click logging, and anyone using Windows 11 agrees to it in the EULA. Disgraceful.)
(Edited for a spelling error. Oops.)
That's great that you've been using it for this long and still having a good time. I really haven't missed it.
I know what you mean on the privacy side of things. Even on my business laptop, there's so much that attempts to go out, it's pretty shocking
And, random comment...
Hello fellow Dave 👋🤣
@@ukGage It's more hidden in the Windows 10 EULA, but the Windows 11 EULA requires you to agree to being both key-logged and click-logged by Microsoft. Even the installer for Windows 11 hints pretty strongly at the key- and click-logging.
Just dropped win11 for Bazzite today, and man I missed linux. I used to run Fedora so luckily bazzite is pretty familiar to me, but everything just works so well. lightweight, snappy, good feature set for non - linux powerusers. Great video
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it too.
Love this video, I've already purchased a second SSD with the intention of trying PopOS! and I'm hoping I have a similar experience. I'm looking forward to learning new things and I hope that I can one day help to make Linux more suitable for others.
Thank you very much! I hope your install and experience goes well. I'd love to hear back from you, so if you feel like it, reply back here with how it's gone! I'm learning lots from others making the move 🙂
Im really curious about it because I've never seen bazzite explained aside from game mode, what sets it apart from any other distro with kde?
I'm not the person to ask I'm afraid. I say it in the video, this is my first and only experience using Linux at home so I can only say how good Bazzite has been for me moving over from Windows. There's lots of people commenting so perhaps someone more experienced will be able to lend some insight :)
This is a great question, and one I'd love to get someone's experienced answer on as well.
That the base system just like SteamOS is immutable as default which makes it more difficult to bork the system and even if you bork it it will recover to base on a reset/restart.
I made the switch to Linux just about 2 months ago, and only booted back to windows 11 once since. Everything runs the same, or has an alternative (such as Joplin to replace OneNote). I went with Pop OS, but Bazzite looks good and may be an option down the road. Perhaps replace that windows installation and dual-boot
Thanks for the comments.
Glad it's been good for you as well. A lot of people in the comments have mentioned Pop OS also, seems to be very popular!
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!
Its showing 30.5 GiB not GB its a completely different unit.
@@eps-nx8zg Calling GiB and GB 'completely different units' is very misleading, especially when it comes to RAM.
The term "gigabyte," abbreviated "GB," was originally applied to common computer units based on powers of 2. So "gigabyte" meant 1024 megabytes, "megabyte" meant 1024 kilobytes, and "kilobyte" meant 1024 bytes. However, disk manufacturers would sometimes use powers of ten rather than powers of two, especially since it made their drives sound bigger. This meant that "gigabyte" for them could mean 1000 megabytes, and so on.
In 1995, IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) decided that they were going to fix this discrepancy by instituting new names for units based on the powers of 2. Instead of "gigabyte" there would be "gibibyte," abbreviated GiB, instead of "megabyte" there would be "mebibyte" and so on (the second syllable was pronounced like "bee" in these new units).
In 1999 the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) decided to adopt this standard, theoretically making it a standard in the industry, so since then people were supposed to adopt this new nomenclature. However, in practice, most people never started using the new nomenclature and continued to refer to units based on powers of two with the terms that are now considered by the IEC to be for powers of ten. Nine times out of ten, when you hear people talk about "gigabytes" they mean what the IEC technically refers to as "gibibytes" now.
With RAM, people are never referring to the powers of ten units, whether they are using GB or GiB, so the distinction between the terms is really irrelevant to this discussion. When you hear people say "32 gigabytes of RAM" they always mean 1024 megabytes/mebibytes rather than 1000. In other words, people always mean gibibytes (GiB) even if they say gigabytes (GB).
Some of the 32 GB of memory that is not available is reserved for the system, but most of it is reserved for video RAM, and that is almost certainly why you see the discrepancy, and the discrepancy is not related to any difference between units.
If we were talking about disk space, then the discrepancy most likely would be about the differences between the units (plus formatted vs unformatted space in some cases), but we're not talking about disk space.
@CFWhitman thank you for taking the time to detail all that, lots of learning in there 🙂
@@ukGage My post has disappeared for me now. I have to suspect that it was reported for some supposed infraction, and taken down by a bot. Perhaps it will get reinstated at a later time if it gets reviewed.
Great video, I've been using Nobora for a while now and can't complain. But having watched your video I decided I would give it a go.
Have you managed to boot direct to desktop mode on start up with Bazzite? Thanks
Thank you very much!
Because I'm on the Nvidia image, it doesn't support the game mode so goes straight to desktop for me but I've seen others mention on their discord that they can switch the boot method.
@@ukGage thanks for getting back to me, I am also on Nvidia but there is no option to boot straight to desktop. I will keep searching online for a work around. Thank s
On Bazzite? The Nvidia image only boots straight to desktop. Did you download the Nvidia specific iso?
@@ukGage so I just found a forum, that shares a command that did the trick. Now booting straight to desktop. Thanks
At that's great! If you're on Nvidia though, definitely double check you installed the Nvidia iso as I believe it contains lots of Nvidia specific bits for improved performance
I am a very long time Linux user, I started with RedHat6 on KDE 2.0 and Nvidia Xfree86 driver 0.9. back around y2k. I got Quake3 Arena running on Linux with the nvidia driver and had a nerd badge of honor among my friends. Linux gaming was something I only did intermittently back in the day due to game support (RIP Loki) , nowadays its my primary gaming OS. Ive been daily driving OpenSuse Tumbleweed as my goto gaming OS for the last 3 years. I am interested in Bazzite, mostly just to try something new. I can do everything I need to do on OpenSuse but a lot of manual installation and troubleshooting is required, having a more gaming focused distro with a lot of the hard work already done would be a refreshing change of pace. The Tumbleweed repos are still on the 550 branch of the NVIDIA driver, I just recently had to manually install 565.77 to get newer driver features (explicit sync support for Wayland).
That's great! Yeah for Bazzite I've not had to do anything manually when it comes to drivers. It's been trouble free since the install
3:53 I don't know if anyone has said this yet but the reason it says 30.5 instead of 32 is because Linux likes to use GiB or Gibibytes instead of GB or Gigabytes.
GiB = 1024 MiB = 1024 KiB = 1024 Bytes
GB = 1000 MB = 1000 KB = 1000 Bytes.
So those extra 24s add up to a smaller looking number but it's the same amount.
Yeah there's been a few discussions about it. Thanks for taking the time to let me know 🙂
CachyOS is also an amazing Arch Linux distribution Beginner friendly, Tried Bazzite its awesome , PopOS also great. those are my 3 favorite distrop so far CachyOs being the top 1 and PopOs third. P.s Lutris use Wine and its not a emulator its a translation layer
There's lots of comments about CachyOS. Maybe when I'm more economical I'll give it a go 🙂
So is Manjaro in its many flavours of DE and WM. For a beginner KDE Plasma is the best as it looks the most like Windows. The KDE Plasma full version comes with Steam preinstalled, auto starting on boot and multilib enabled for 32 bit support if you wanna run some older games.
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
I wish you a long and prosperous Linux adventure. Pave it - Learn from it - Nuke it - Repave it again - over and over - as we learn and enjoy. One thing I've come to do over the years is to make sure I keep a text file with all the tricks and tips and settings that help me. Enjoy.
Thanks! Keeping notes is a really good idea. I made myself a discord server a while ago just for me and I've been using the channels and what not for note keeping and planning.
try solaar for your peripherals
I'll check it out, thanks!
I started my linux journey about 3 weeks ago running PikaOS. There has been some learning curve and some playing around under the hood, but so far ive only booted into windows for school related stuff. I would try removing firefox in the console and reinstalling it.
I've never heard of PikaOS, will definitely give it a look. Tried that a few times. It does the same with the Firefox variants I've tried as well. I've installed it from flatpak and appimage and it's the same so I can only assume it's something with this version of Bazzite. Ended up installing Brave and that's been fine.
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'.
So to game capture with obs through bassite, you need to add env line of code etc for every game (through Steam or the individual game options)? And is that vkcapture an addon we need to also install?
That's the way I do it but there is also a way to do it in steam at a global level so you only do it once. I don't do that because I also run stream avatars through steam so I use the window capture for that and the vk capture for the games.
Yeah VK capture is on flatpak so it's really easy. When you find OBS on discovery, there's a tab on its page at the top right called "add-ons" and it's in there. You then just add a "game capture" source and then it will pick up any thing with the environment variable specified
I did the same as you, after 20+ years went to Linux and never looked back. I am using Pop OS, it is pretty easy to set up and worked fine but I am feeling the lack of new features for the UI as System76 is no longer updating gnome, rather they are writing their own DE. I am getting a new rig soon and I will likely do some distro hopping, Bazzite now will be my first (and hopefully only) hop.
I hope it works out for you! It's been perfect for me to date. From the point of view of turn it on, play games, do my work, and general use I couldn't ask for a better experience. That's exactly what I wanted. The only tinkering I've had to do is with Marvel Rivals but it's been something sorted in minutes
If you have done server stuff then your linux start is greater than most beginners.
Using Mint since 2008 but only made the final cut away from W10 last February, hope it all works out for you. 🙂
It was a very limited set of things on an old red hat server for a phone system many years ago. I'd like to say it gave me some expertise but it was run a few bits in the console on one of those servers with what was basically a pull out laptop... I'm getting old 🤣
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 🙂
@@ukGage did it fix it?
@LokiOdinssnn not for me. I've installed Brave and that's working perfectly
If remote play on PS5 supports gyro aiming on PC through a USB connection, try giving learning gyro aim a shot in Fortnite (and any other game on PC that supports native gyro aim on PS4/PS5 controllers)!
Now I will say this: Getting PC ports that use audio-based haptic feedback on a PS5 controller (like "Ghostwire: Tokyo") is a bit of a faff every time. It needs a wired connection for the controller (like adaptive triggers), disabling Steam Input if using the Steam version, and using a program for Pipewire (forgot the name] to connect the game's audio to the controller's "rear speakers". Works once it's done, and can be used to give the DualSense such feedback in ANY game.
That does sound interesting! I wonder if Chiaki supports it. I've actually not tried using my PS5 controller with Chiaki supporting my pc controller. Will give it a whirl, thank you!
For obs, is there an option to install it as portable obs? (I have obs on Windows setup as portable on an external ssd so I can plush into any pc and have everything setup) thanks!!
There is, and although it's not been updated for a while it's not difficult to update the OBS version in there. I'm actually thinking of switching over to this one because some plugins don't work with the Flatpak version that do in the standalone version.
Here's the link, it's bundled with loads of plugins also so it's a nice starting place
github.com/wimpysworld/obs-studio-portable
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!
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
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
I've been gaming on Linux for close to 3 years and hardly needed Windows for anything (just update Xbox controller firmwares but I just use my wife's laptop for that!). I've been playing with some complex peripherals like flight sticks, driving wheels and pedals and they all work fantastically.
That's great! Yeah my wife has windows on her laptop so I can quickly do my firmware updates there. I've got a VM for it but it is a bit of a faff as putting my decks and mic on pass through means (for me at least!) when I come out of the VM they're in an almost crashed state and don't return to how I have them in linux until I restart.
That's good to know about the extra peripherals - My son has a quest vr headset, and although I don't ever play VR titles I'm interested in seeing if I can get it to work with the pc as a (hopefully small!) project
@@ukGage I'm glad to say that Quest headsets also work. It's a bit more fiddly to get setup because you wouldn't use the official Meta app, but it works well both cabled and wireless using ALVR or WiVRn. I'm not sure they would work on Bazzite since you can only install Flatpaks (and these apps do not have Flatpak versions yet) but you can always do some research about them. Good luck!
Thank you! I've been able to install things outside of discovery already so that gives me a bit of hope that it's possible. Playing something like Phasmophobia in VR appeals 🤣
I have tried Ubuntu, mint and cachyOS LTS versions. When I play games, I get a FPS drop when I move the cursor with the mouse, but there is no FPS drop with touchpad. I tried gnome, KDE and hyprland as DE but the result is the same.
That's really odd! I've only tried Bazzite and not had any performance problems. Everything either runs the same or better unbelievably!
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?
so no issues with multiple screens? i'm considering switching but Mint and Fedora gave me so much trouble when using multiple displays :(
No, none at all. I've got the laptop screen of course, my main monitor and a smaller portable monitor and no problems whatsoever
Welcome to freedom!
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/
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.
@@YeaSeb. "You can try waydroid, I don't think it runs Out of the box on bazzite..."
They literally mention Waydroid and recommend you use it on the Bazzite homepage.
5:19 correction: Fall Guys works via the Heroic launcher, just make sure to use Proton Experimental.
Thank you. Yeah a few people have let me know. I thought it didn't work because of the anti cheat but I was mistaken 🙂
@@ukGage no worries. Easy Anti Cheat does have Linux support. But it's up to the individual developers to enable it
From what I've read it's the kernel level anti cheat that's the problem. I've been playing Marvel Rivals with easy anti cheat and that's been great
@@ukGage yes, that too. Kernel AC is a no go until they also create a kernel module for Linux, which is possible but would require people to sudo install it. Personally I would never do that.
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.
If you want to show fps with inside steam games or anything that runs DXVK there is an environment variable DXVK_HUD setting it's value to "full" will show you all options like heap size, buffer etc but if all you want is fps DXVK_HUD=fps gets you there.
Brill, thanks very much 🙂
Congratulations for making the switch! X3
Thanks 😁
@@ukGage yes!
Very good video; personally i use arch linux since 2021 and it's perfect for me, no more windows. i'm in wayland KDE
Thank you very much 🙂
I am curious what resolution your monitor is running. I have found some games have weird mouse cursor resizing on 4K.
Also the laptop, does it have built in buttons for like performance modes or screen refresh modes.? I have a lenovo gaming laptop and find under linux the change screen refresh buttons or power mode switching doesn't seem to work. . .
My laptop screen and monitor are both 240hz and I run at 1440p. No issues with any resizing in my setup.
It does have buttons for keyboard rgb and fan control which didn't work until I installed the open source version of the Asus control centre and mapped the keys. I actually never use them though, for performance modes I use my stream deck rather than the gui and for my RGB I set it to the rainbow setting and leave it at that
I See Affinity Designer on the bottom right. Did you actually manage to make it work on Linux? as far as I know Affinity Suite doesn't have a native Linux port, You running it through Wine?
Yeah it works okay ish. I wouldn't call it fully usable but I can do bits on it. The right click menus don't work, sometimes resizing things cause it to crash. It's definitely in the few things I put in the "this is a faff" category. I've seen mixed results for it though, have a search for affinity designer elemental warrior and that will take you to the different ways to install it. Using Lutris was the best one for me but there's a manual process and a heroic launcher process also
Trust me, you want game-mode, it does restrict you to one monitor, but it essentially eliminates the desktop for performances sake. 1% lows are really good as a result.
Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a go when it becomes available to Nvidia users but I'm really happy with it as it is and don't have any performance issues. If I was on a handheld then I'd 100% want game mode, but on my laptop, a desktop experience is what I'm after
This is a fun watch! Thanks!
Thanks very much 🙂
The layman's way to explain an immutable system (because the technical, actual definition is nonsensical IMO) is basically that you can't modify things outside of user directories without going through extra steps to enable doing it. Depending on how exactly a system update is handled by a distro (i.e. SteamOS and Bazzite) a system update will also reset any changes the user *did* make in non-user directories.
You CAN absolutely mess things up with an immutable system, and even so if you only modify stuff in your home directories (like recently with some community addons for plasma had royal f'k'd up things), but chances of this happening (and the general degree of catastrophe) are so small that it's fair to say you can't really mess up your system.
That's great, thanks so much for taking the time to explain it that way.
I have Bazzite on my gaming PC for most Steam games. I have a PS5 and Xbox Series S for games that won't run on linux at all.
Pretty much how I am except instead of the Xbox I have my Switch (and soon to be Switch 2 hopefully!)
You should try uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox to see if that clears up the issue. I'm trying Bazzite-deck in a vm on CachyOS with another vm w Garuda-Hyprland - should be interesting to see some of the differences.
Yeah I've done it a few times, also tried the app image and had the same problem. I've ended switching to Brave and that's been fine
anyone know much about if there is alot of tinkering to get bluetooth kb an mouse working along with Nvidia 3050 graphics?
I've got an Nvidia 4090 and it's the same driver setup so that should be fine. I use my wireless keyboard and mouse with usb but my keyboard has Bluetooth and when I tested that originally it worked the same as with the usb dongle 🙂 this is all on Bazzite without any tinkering, I think with other OS's you might need to go and sort the Nvidia drivers manually
I can see you asked about WWE 2K24 also but the notification won't take me to the comment. Yes you can! It's in the video as one of the games I show. I've played lots more since and it runs perfectly. I'm running it from Steam 🙂
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
I'm running Linux as a daily driver for job/personal tasks on a Beelink Mini-PC for some time now. Also use it for mid-tier gaming and emulation of old computers like Amiga, C-64. Running on Pop_OS! 22.04 currently, although it's pretty outdated in the base packages. Can't wait for the 24.04 release with the new Cosmic desktop environment. And I find gaming on Linux very straightforward these days, only a few things you have to be careful about, otherwise it's quite easy to maintain. I'm only switching to Windows 11 on my beefy main PC for anti-cheat dependent titles like Fortnite, GTA Online and such. As soon as the anticheat situation is somehow solved for online gaming, I will completely switch to Linux.
Yeah I've been really surprised how smooth it all is. Cracking kernel level anti cheat seems to be the main stopper I think for lots of people fully switching. With any luck, some of the game devs will either stop using it or find another way that will work over here
If you use fixed releases for gaming on Linux you will always be outdated. Linux gaming machines are preferred to use a rolling release like Arch so you are always up to date with the most recent kernel and drivers. Manjaro can offer you everything Vanilla Arch has but is more beginner friendly because it will always start as stable out of the box whereas Vanilla Arch defaults to bleeding edge only. You can change the status to experimental or bleeding edge from the terminal in Manjaro (not recommended for noobs).
I have discovered Linux gaming about 2 years ago and tried so much different distros (except some really niche ones) like PopOS, Nobara, Fedora, Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS and so on. I almost run any game on Linux except the games with kernel-level anti-cheat and only 1-2 game with critical errors that i can't find any solution on the internet. Also with the Valve's invests on Linux gaming gives more hope.
It's been a really easy time since moving over. Glad it's been going well for a while for you, gives me hope that it will continue 🙂
I sold my PC and laptop and I’m now exclusive on PS5 Pro because W11 basically bricked the last four laptops/desktops I bought and I said “enough is enough”. Sure I miss my Steam library but tbh most of the early access and PC exclusives will come to PS5 eventually and I love being able to press the PS logo on my controller, then the LG 75’ OLED turns itself on and I’m up and gaming in 30 seconds. No drivers, no updates that break the OS, no blue screen of death. I’m done with Windows until either MS sort their shit out or SteamOS can be installed with nVidia hardware and DLLS 4. Meantime I am gaming without stress!
That's what it's all about for me! Whatever means you can press "on", load your game and relax, it's what we all need. Glad it's working for you as is. I have a Switch and PS5 as well and between those and my laptop, I'm all set for gaming solo or with the family 😁
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 🤣
They call it Windows because Microsoft peers through it.
Badum tshhhh! 😁
Flatpak is a technology that allows software to run in a contained environment which means that the applications within it have to get permission to use USB devices for example. There is a program that is also a flatpak called flatseal which gives you a nice interface to check some boxes to add permissions for other flatpaks like discord for example. On a traditional Linux system, applications are not contained and can sometimes be more compatible due to the lack of containers being used.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm really grateful for all the knowledge sharing in the comments
I have a ThinkPad t530 with the Ubuntu on it, I have a Lenovo g700 and I'm to put bazzite on it and figure it out use it as a testing, then put it as a dual boot on my gaming rig.
Hopefully it's as smooth sailing as it's been for me. It's the only Distro I've used so I've got nothing to compare against (other than windows) but its been brilliant
@ukGage ubuntu's cool but I wouldn't use it for gaming.
What makes it bad for gaming? I've not tried anything other than Bazzite
@ukGage It's really not made for that. It doesn't do well with Nvidia drivers like Bazzite. I got my music DAW to work on Ubuntu.
That's really interesting, I'll have to have a play with it and see. I've had lots of Ubuntu recommendations although, I'm happy with Bazzite as is. Maybe I'll get more adventurous in the future 😁
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 🤣
What GPU are you using and if it's AMD how did you run davinci resolve.
My 6600m has never worked with davinci resolve since AMD doesn't have proper opencl on Linux.
NM I see you're using Nvidia. I suppose I might try a Bazzite setup with a Nvidia laptop.
I like Linux Mint, but asusctl developer isn't supporting Ubuntu.
Yeah I'm on Nvidia in my laptop. Resolve works but it still has issues with plugin support so I end up recording on the format I want in OBS and then converting. It's fallen into the "this is a faff" category for me over the last couple of weeks!
Not sure if it would, but you could try Asusctl in a DistroBox?
Neither does Windows have any proper opencl for AMD GPU simply because AMD does not use CUDA cores. It is not the reason for Davinci Resolve not working, the reason is that you installed/selected a driver which your system is unable to work with and as thus get errors when the system tries to address hardware which is not there. Uninstalling/not selecting the opencl driver and installing/selecting Vulkan instead will fix the problem.
Opencl works fine on Linux but just like on Windows needs a Nvidia GPU with CUDA cores to fully function.
If anything AMD is the better choice on Linux because Nvidia sucks, ask Linus or Valve. There is a reason the SteamDeck is full AMD.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard I'm not sure I get what you're saying. What do you mean by selecting opencl or vulkan driver?
Nvidia might be proprietary, but it's been the only effective way of running davinci resolve in Linux.
AMD has had proprietary opencl drivers that have at times worked with Davinci Resolve as well as rocm, but both have been unstable and liable to break when updating.
I've been running Nvidia in Linux for both Davinci Resolve and wine/dxvk gaming and have never had issues.
I keep a 6600m GPU just to keep an eye on if AMD will ever have opencl properly implemented in Linux.
This is a widely known issue among Linux users.
It's just that most users only think about gaming so they consider AMD the end all be all in Linux.
@@dp27thelight9 Well I am running Davinci Resolve on Vulkan and have no problems whatsoever on Linux. Don't forget to disable Wayland as Davinci resolve will bork on Wayland.
Fall guys must be a recent change because it definitely did run on linux in the past. I have personally played it on my linux machine through the steam client.
A few people corrected me on it, I'd misread the warning in Heroic launcher
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 🙂
Im on low spec PC (Ryzen 3 1200 + RX 560) and I tried running some windows games using proton, surprisingly most of them running better on Linux for example No Mans Sky run very smooth 60fps while on windows it get only 30-50 stuttering hell.
It's crazy how that works! Everything is so much smoother for me. I can only put it down to his much background garbage is running on Windows
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 🙂
Hey the reason you only see 30.5GB of RAM is because the Ryzen processor you have uses an APU and that RAM is allocated for it. 😊
Thank you! I'd come to that conclusion few days ago after some more noodling. I hadn't realised before as it's entirely disabled in BIOS so I assumed it couldn't be that!
30:33 As someone who has been using Linux since 1997; don't apologize for making it look like Windows. Customisation and freedom of choice are supposed to be celebrated. Make it look, feel and work however you want! Make it yours. This is the Linux way.
Thank you 💙 I'm really happy with my setup and I'm learning lots every day from the small community on this post. I keep thinking about making a discord but not sure how useful it would be!
2030 will be the year of the linux desktop! For sure this time
2024 and 2025 for me already!
More people playing on Linux , Greetings!
Thank you!
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 🙂
Not to be that guy but Flatpak is not the store, Flatpak is the packaging. Anyways Bazzite is the best choice for you even if KDE (the desktop environment of Bazzite) can break at times if you customize it too much. Probably the best for any ex Windows user, Gnome for ex Mac users.
That doesn't make you "that guy" at all in the negative way. It's great to get feedback and learn as a newbie 🙂
@@ukGage Hope you never have to switch back, just in case i can recommend Nobara Linux (and to any any PC Gamer that wants to try Linux) for the Gnome flavor of this. :) For the annoyance with Firefox is probably something to do with that particular installation since i use both KDE and FIrefox combo as daily driver and it works like it should. if it persists you can install any browser you need from the store, even Edge, and remove Firefox. It's always a choice in Linux :)
Yeah it's a weird one with Firefox. Might be something to do with the Nvidia image, but not sure! I ended up installing Brave and that's been brill
I dropped windows 100% the start of 2020 when Microsoft stopped really supporting 7. Haven't missed it one bit.
That's great to hear. I've had such a simple switch over and it's been rock solid since the first install. Great to hear stories dating back years 🙂
What laptop are you using?
It's an Asus Rog Strix Scar 17 4090 Edition
@@ukGage- 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 dual boot Windows and Linux Mint on my Acer Nitro, and once I turn on the limit in the Windows utility, the setting stays enabled in Linux
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!
Seeing Opera in the taskbar is..... questionable...
Incredibly... Questionable... Suspicious almost... What could it mean!?
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.
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 😁
As someone who made this switch like... 6 months ago?, this was entertaining. I've used Linux since the 90s, but not really for desktop. I like to say that it's not that Linux has gotten so great (it's somewhere around "good" not necessarily great), it's that Microsoft has FUBARed Windows. I can't stand when I have to boot into Windows for Game Pass.
Thanks 🙂 For me it's been great, and by that I mean, I don't even think about it now. I just turn on my pc and go.
Notebook name and model?
It's an Asus Rog Strix Scar 17