You have easily become one of my favorite linux channels on youtube. I really like how you explain things in detail and provide solutions to common issues with windows x linux apps.
Yes, he is one of the best, especially his quirky, non-monotonic voice -- which makes me laugh a lot. Just a charmastic kind of guy, and that's really good for being a YT Influencer.
I am still sad that EA has banned me off Apex Legends with no return, just because THEY failed to make sure the files required for their anti-cheat to work on Linux are shipped with the game. Valve fixed that later in Proton, but I was unlucky, and they simply refused to unban me. I just started playing and was hoping for having some fun, but they simply won't let me. EA is a pretty bad company for having these kinds of extreme restrictions on support, which allow for only three appeal attempts altogether. And often they won't even give any human response at all and just take what the system tells them.
Unlucky. I'm not sure what the timeframe is for your bans but I was banned multiple times on different accounts on Linux and was unbanned every time. This was around the time they announced official support a long time ago. It did take a while but it seems the unbans were performed automatically by Respawn because I was unbanned whether I appealed or not. Of course these days I don't think you even get banned anymore.
Another great video, I've been playing on Linux many years now and there's no better time than now, Valve's Proton and peripherals support is almost 1:1. The only thing we are lacking is anticheat support but some companies which aren't willing to support Linux are not worh my money imo.
I was a bit hesitant about trying Linux because I heard it doesn't have anti-cheat software yet. But honestly, I think the difference would be negligible in most FPS games anyway, lol.
OMG, Thanks for the Discord workaround!!! It was killing me to use it through firefox with a double prompt to share my screen each time.. and it wasn`t as good as this workaround!
You're always the best, @Michael. You've helped me get more use to Linux. I needed to watch this to help my Wife get more games available on the Steam Deck that I bought her few years back. She just started playing again on 12-07-2024. Yeah, she hasn't played since got the first SD right at release, because she had carpal tunnel (using laptop too much). But, it's better now, so I'm happy she picked up the SD tonight and wanted to try and start using it again. Her favorite games back then were Farm Together, StarDew Valley, and some Chef cooking game.
I only been on Linux for four days and I’m losing my mind it is so annoying every time you have to do whatever you need to write a code that you have to find somewhere and then write it in the terminal it’s the most annoying thing ever I’m gonna stick with windows 10 forever unfortunately
@@onkelhiphop i used to be like that until I started learning programming and found out the codes are not a random string but just a series of instructions that make sense once you learn them. Just like knowing which of the control panels to go to in windows or the fact that the tool you are using in windows is trash and there's a better hidden tool, the command line is about getting used to. To install stuff, half of them are on the appatore and the "sudo packetmanagername program" just does the same thing. You can even search if you know what you need but are not sure. After getting used to it Ive gone from being annoyed at the exact same thing as you to appreciating the fact you have an access to the official download, virus, popup and wait timer free without having to filter through sketchy sites. (And as a bonus not having to go through a bunch of different iterations of the control panel and still resorting to using regedit and cmd only to find out windows doesn't allow it/its bugged eg changing appdata folder to not be on the tiny nvme)
@@onkelhiphop lol use chatgpt for that, makes the process super easy. Don't even have to type to chat gpt either if youre on the phone, just go into a call with it
I've used Kali, Ubuntu, and recently (and my favorite) Mint. I cannot recommend Mint enough. The people who complain about a terminal have not used a mainstream distro in a half a decade, are not tech savvy to begin with. Windows is for children. Linux is for adults.
One thing you could have mentioned is that it depends on how you choose the games you play. If you are a casual player that just plays whatever works, gaming on linux is not that bad, there are plenty of titles that work. If you are a social player, that grabs the latest games to play with your mates, linux might not be a good choice. It might take some time after the launch of the game for it to get to a playable state on linux, so when you are able to start you will be behind your peers that were in other platforms.
@@SammyGoated No, plenty of games doesn't run or run poorly on the first few weeks to a month, some even for longer, despite not having anti-cheats. It takes some time for the community to find the workarounds to make some games work. Sure, there are some that work out of the box, but my point stands, you can't simply decide to play a new game and play, because it may be still not running well.
@@MarcusBuer I've been playing most new releases of this year with no issue almost day one. You might be referring to the games/companies which actively aren't supporting Linux with their tech implementations, ie. Rockstar, Bungie, Riot, etc.
Appreciate you pointing out we no longer need shader caching on Steam. Such a minor thing that nobody seems to talk about, and I had zero idea DXVK got updated to make this obsolete. One more minor annoyance eliminated for gaming on Linux!
Great video, need more UA-camrs to support Linux and help everyone improve Linux, we are bored of trash Windows and the bad things about Windows, Linux is way better for cheap / old hardwares, keep it up and increase the marketshare, Linux should be easier to use
4 years running arch, 1 reinstall due to upgrade on storage, no biblic screw ups as of yet, and since proton 5.13 no issues running my games other than the old CPU not capable of high FPS but still playing all big launches since then.
@skittles.abuser I used linux at college, so I just changed from that to daily driving a few years later. I don't even rely on GUI's for most of the system maintenance to the point I'm even using Hyprland alone, sound, network, a bluetooth dongle, docker containers running some self hosted apps, all on text editors and terminal (not really a fan of TUI editors) work just fine.
Thanks so much for the discord screen share fix!! I have been just using discord within the Firefox browser, but that's missing so many features, most notably I can't raise anyone's volume above 100%. This isba game changer and is bringing me one step closer to going full Linux 100% of the time!
Steam, Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Launcher has been a life saver for me. I fully switched to Linux because I could game on it reliably now. Well, from the games I am playing. Not to mention it freed up my system resources for other things like focusing on the work apps I am using for work.
Great video! It's awesome to see how far Linux gaming has come. The performance improvements and the variety of available titles are really impressive. Thanks for sharing these tips and insights!
The only thing preventing me from permanently jumping from Windows to Linux is the capture card (Elgato) and several old games on GOG. I want everything to work, and despite googling, there are no solutions to my problems. The capture card doesn't have Linux support, and GOG games like Blood Omen, Messiah, Boken Sword series to mention a few just don't work. Tried several runners, dependencies, settings etc. There's only so much work and time I'm willing to spend. Proton is going the right way, but not all the way just yet.
I feel your Elgato pain. Comparable capture cards, especially PCIe ones, are far more expensive and don't really offer much more on return. I honestly never understood why Elgato used a specific Windows library for their capture instead of something more universal like they already did with their USB ones
Your my favorite linux youtuber out of the bunch I've seen. I really like how you don't make the user use the terminal, and you explain things so clearly and I learn stuff I didn't even know I wanted. Thanks!
Running mInimal Arch Linux on my gaming pc (dual boot) with minimal Gnome Shell, traditional X11, NVidia drivers and Pulseaudio. Firefox and Steam are the only apps installed. Nearly 80% of my Steam games work out of the box. Easy! 😀 Great video by the way!
great video. I haven't used linux outside of my raspberry pi, thinking about moving my main pc to linux and was worried as i built my rig for gaming. once windows no longer supports 10 i'm pretty sure i will migrate over and this makes me feel a bit more confident about the transition.
Gotta say, for the two years Linux improved a lot when it comes to gaming. Tried a few distros and aa far as I can remember Fedora was the one I barely had any performance problems. (Currently on Mint 22) Next big step for me is probably getting a Steamdeck.
I've got Linux Mint installed on my 12 year old desktop, as with the impending Windows 10 not possible to upgrade to 11 I think Linux is the best option. Really like Mint, very easy to use and everything just works, it recognised all the drivers including the Nvidia graphics card, so very impressed with it. Didn't know about the option to turn on compatibility for Steam, many thanks for that! Think I may get rid of Windows from this PC in a few months as support for Win 10 is gone. Linux works so well I'm very impressed. Thank you mate!
It's a weird thing that there haven't been any efforts yet. Almost two years ago they hired people for UI/UX design on Linux, but nothing ever came from it
My main gripe with hardware support is the peripherals like mice, keyboards and headsets. If you want an extra functionality working, you either have to find a project like Input mapper or others that can do 50% of the things, but not 100, and it's a hassle. First party support of these devices should be a thing
there is just one thing you have to know, if you bought your game outside of steam you got no support. No games from GoG, Ubisoft or the EA launcher have anyone who cares if they work.
Suggest to go with a rolling release distro/OS - Fedora is a very good. You need most latest updates when you are gaming on Linux. I'm with Arch. Most of games work smoothly.
Fedora is a great middle ground. I update once a week and the upgrade list is always packed with stuff. Arch is good too tho, bunch of updates every single day pretty much.
"installing software on linux should be preferably done via the package manager or software store" - while I strongly agree with this, I think Steam is special case especially when it comes to Fedora. My personal recommendation is to make sure you are not installing the Flatpak or Snap version of Steam due to certain compatibility issues. Don't get me wrong though I love flatpaks and I recommend them for anything else but from my own personal experience I noticed the native Steam is better.
I noticed this as well. I just had an issue yesterday where I installed a new GPU and the flatpak version of a steam stopped working because it didn’t recognize the new drivers, and that made all my games unplayable. I uninstalled it and installed the Steam version from my distro’s repository using the package manager and it fixed the issue.
Screen sharing with sound in Discord has been a long running issue already. It would be so easy if you could just connect OBS stream to it and be done, but nope that's not an option. Well actually you can sort of do that by setting up virtual webcam kernel module and then feed it to the Discord as live webcam feed. The image quality, frame rate and audio quality take a tremendous hit but this way I could stream output rather reliably with audio with great level of control what goes into the audio and what does not.
I moved over to Linux a couple of weeks ago and I miss playing Warzone but I hate Windows enough to where I will not go back. I have 2 machines running Linux my main machine is running PopOS 24.04 Cosmic and my 2013 Mac is running PopOS 22.04 both run excellent
The lack of official screen sharing with audio support on Discord is tragic and switching to something like Matrix and screen sharing just doesn't cut it
Nobara Linux is very good for gaming, based on fedora but glorious eggroll is the main contributor I think and it comes with a lot of gaming oriented fixes out the box so it’s amazing for beginners
As far as pure gaming is concerned, I can recommend Garuda Linux. The only gaming related thing I had to do, was install a controller related plugin for Steam to recognize a Bluetooth controller; wired controller was working out of the box. Everything else, just plug & play, no utilities, plugins, no terminal commands. As for non gaming related stuff, yes, it will probably take some time to familiarize yourself with utilities for fan control, rgb, that sort of thing.
@@yurithebrave It's an immutable distro. You can't basically make changes to root filesystem and many system files, and you install softwares mostly using Flatpak. This way it's more secure and you can avoid the system to fall into the dependency hell and other bad situations related to packages.
Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, Kenoite) is also like this, an immutable distro. I tried it and it’s very cool. Everything is compartmentalized and there are snapshots of system updates and package installs so you can roll back changes if something goes wrong, or delete a toolbox if you have issues with installed packages. You can even install sets of packages temporarily in containers and delete them all in one go without affecting anything else. The downside is that it is harder to troubleshoot system issues because the system is read only, which can be a real issue when you can’t edit system files, even as root.
Nice video, but most of the stuff is already well documented. It would've been better, if you talked about enabling HDR on Gnome and KDE, because that's where the confusion lies.
Damn I’ve never before installed another os on my pc but u make it seem so easy an intuitiv ill give it a shot Oh and till now ive only ever been running windows 😅
Hello, brand newbie here (switched to linux just a few days ago). Thank you for your video. Is bottles a wine replacement? Or do i need to also have wine installed in order to use bottles? I love the word play in all this LOL.
Only thing keeping me from making the move is ALVR with wireless needs some work with encoding settings and anti-chat with a lot of games, particularly East Anti-cheat.
bad move disabling pre caching, its not really noticable unless you run advanced overlays with frametiming graph, the 1% low is much more stable with precaching so leave it on dummy and just tick the background process, overnight a massive library is up to date, hope this helps
After a lot of fighting with it, I finally got linux to play nice with my laptop...up until I figured out that it didn't play nice with my fan controls and I'd eventually just overheat.
The preferred method of installing software on Linux is by using the terminal, you shouldn't tell people to use the package manager or software store. I understand most people stay away from Linux cause of the terminal, but it's not that hard to learn how to use it, and once you do, the way how a Linux system is structured becomes clearer to the user, which imho is a crucial part of the learning curve.
The problem is no one wants to "learn" a PC. For me the terminal is like showing people winget since it's faster to install software. No one would listen
@@MichaelNROH I totally get that and actually agree for the most part, but to truly understand the inner workings of the system one should learn how to use the terminal, but package managers and software stores are indeed good tools for introducing Linux to beginners in a more "tame" manner to say so.
@skittles.abuser Well, most people, yeah, but you see, at some point, everybody who owns a computer had to learn how to use an OS (the majority of course being Windows). I won't argue about the user experience, yes, Linux is NOT as user friendly as Windows, I'll give you that, but things are changing a LOT. Distros such as Mint are really changing the game, and making Linux way more accessible for the average user. These days pretty much anybody can setup a a basic Linux system and if you're good at following instructions, setup pretty much anything, the support base for Linux is amazing, I dare to say it's even BETTER than Windows. The Arch Wiki is awesome, one can solve pretty much anything just by following it's instructions. Anyway, things are changing, also, the Steam Deck is acting as a gateway to Linux for many new users, so there's that. Linux's market share remains pretty small, but it's growing steadily, personally I don't believe it will ever surpass Windows, not even in 100 years, but who knows, something might happen. What I do think it's possible and might happen is that Linux grows to become at least number two, the Pepsi to Microsoft's Coca-Cola. Well, no one knows for sure what the future reserves, but it sure is fun to witness the changes.
I went to linux and so far I'm finding linux to be flat out better. Edge cases like simracing need custom drivers(literally find the commonly reccomended driver and copy paste some commands into terminal) and vr needs to make sure you are using right proton. So far only issues i've had have been: Something not working cause secureboot was enabled. Me installing wayland incorrectly and it causing games to crash after a bit For the rest games run as good or sometimes flat out better and without crashing compared to windows.
Video files have nothing to do with shader caching. Since the files you download have already been compiled for your hardware there is no reason why it can't compile it itself. Depending on the game there could be stutters, but it shouldn't have anything to do with compatibility
Also disabling shader precaching might lead to stutter in some titles. Runtime compiling is only possible without stuttering on games that are more CPU limited than GPU limited. If your GPU is pegged at 100% it will need to decrease the frametime to reserve resources for shader compilation.
@@MichaelNROHIn my experience there are games which will stutter without it regardless of hardware. Isn't it why games like Elden Ring run more smoothly on Steam Deck than on Windows at launch?
I've tried moving to linux since the 90's, Suse, Redhat, Mint, Slackware, Ubuntu etc. Every single time I run into a dealbreaker somewhere, forcing me back to windows. It's just not working for me. Also, I work in IT...the last thing I need in my life is the endless tinkering with that damn computer in my spare time. I really don't know how people find the time to get it working. Windows it is. They can have my metadata, I don't care anymore.
I'm looking at a linux-based machine for my next PC. I was curious about the part about NVIDIA. I picked up that AMD was a better choice and so have been looking at AMD-based systems. But if, as you showed, an nvidia system has no issues and you just install the drivers, it opens up a lot of options. Honestly, I was hoping to arrange something very like a Steam Deck -- it's distro, along with the KD5 plasma interface, and steam.
Putting processor in performance mode helps with the anticheat. You set a higher benchmark when you log into steam. Lot of the time the anticheat is kicked off by ram usage. I use emulators to play nintendo, playstation, and xbox games. I have had issues with controller mapping like with non nintendo wii controllers. Personally I found windows games run fine using wine, and proton. I think Linux actually is better than windows now. It takes less time on Linux than on windows to do most things. And don't need to download and extra program to do things.
its not very good right now. there have been some leaks from valve that suggests that there will be a Linux based stand-alone VR headset at some point, so hopefully it will improve over the next few years. I've found vr in linux works fine for games that are running inside steam but any vr games that you have outside steam just don't work very well.
If you don't have SteamVR compatible headset, you might as well walk away. Tho if you do, it's much better then it was just few months ago, valve has been updating linux version of steamvr quite regularly now, tho you still need one of the linux supported headsets, with the og htc vive and index being still the best supported, but I read that the quest 2 & 3 are much better as well nowdays trough ALVR. And others are try out and see. Still no smoothing and no lighthouse management tho. And you need beefier PC than if you played on windows because of no smoothing, if you don't want to see "echo" of your previous frames. But from my experience on with amd gpu(RX 6600), HL: Alyx works, Contractors works, VRChat works(regular proton version are spotty, better to use the Proton GE RTSP), Hyper Dash works, Into the Radius works, Rumble works(on AMD, I know it didn't support nvidia), Beat Saber works(you need to downgrade to an older version tho), Zenith works, Skyrim VR works, and that concludes my VR library I tried on linux.
Nice and informative video content, thanks a lot for that, highly appreciated. Can you generally say whether one should currently lean either towards NVIDIA or rather AMD when it comes to choosing a modern graphics card? Not only in terms of performance, but also concerning things like driver support, technologies like (especially global/driver-controlled) G-Sync/FreeSync, or whether there are special things to consider with global graphics settings for non Linux games? What about ‘old fashioned problems’ like for example screen tearing or freezing and crashing bugs that can occur when you frequently tab back and forth between the desktop and the game itself (I'm specifically using the latter as an example because I remember having massive problems with exactly that back some time using GNOME + NVIDIA, although that was years ago... but bad memories and experiences always got the habit to remain in the back of one's mind). It would also be very interesting to know whether you can use Wayland without any problems in the meantime or whether it can cause any heavy problems. I lately considered switching to Sway Display Manager on my Linux PC... Thanks in advance, keep up with that great content!
Running Nobara 40... rock solid foundation for my gaming/programming rig. I also love the Snaphots feature, this combined with slightly older kernels being saved makes for a very robust system with very little downtime since I can merely boot from a slightly older kernel and delete the damaged one. After a few updates I am back up and running with the latest kernel again. Spectacular! NEVER going back to Windows, ever again.
@@TheFrontmanRocker I agree. That is why I refuse to duel boot windows on my PC just to play them. I hope the rise of Linux gaming will make devs second guess implementing such invasive software.
@@TheShawMustGoOnSadly, this isn't true. A bunch of people just misread Microsoft's announcement. They just want to introduce safer ways to interact with the kernel. So it will either not affect Linux at all or make it worse
@spatiumowl It's not clear at all what they are planning and there have to be changes. If they want to prevent a new crowdstrike situation, then they need to somehow force developers to use their new implementations, since if it's a choice then the same thing can happen again
Absolutely! I am a big fan of PortProton. I used to run all my Windoes games and software withe CodeWeaver Crossover. But PortProton runs everything way better!
i would LOVE to switch to linux but the only thing stopping me is vanguard not being supported. i unfortunately play league and all my friends do, so that’s a big limit
Steam has made it very easy to game on linux. But there is still some room for improvement. For example, Steam doesn't recognize that you're using linux, and automatically switch the games over to linux mode. You have to manually go in there and do it yourself, each time you want to install a new game. Not a huge deal, but it would be cool if you just hit the "Play" button like you can on windows. Next problem is that if you want to play a game that's not on steam, there's usually several more steps. You have to install something like Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris. And there's a setup that you have to do for each game. Unlike with Steam. But Ai is coming to help at least. Soon there will be a good FOSS Ai that will make everything just work on linux easily.
unfortunately it becomes difficult to use when you have to do silly things like install WeMod and have an easy-to-use and always up-to-date distrubution
Linux of be absolutely perfect if it supported call of duty. Say what you say about the series but sometimes I don't have too much time to sit there and play story games and that would be nice to have a good arcade shooter.
@@MichaelNROH It would be more than phenomenal. Currently using Chimera OS as my main build for the living room, definitely annoying when I boot up windows and have to navigate it with a controller and key oard while I wait for all the pop-ups to finish loading on boot. (With an NVMe and literally just steam installed.)
You have easily become one of my favorite linux channels on youtube. I really like how you explain things in detail and provide solutions to common issues with windows x linux apps.
Yes, he is one of the best, especially his quirky, non-monotonic voice -- which makes me laugh a lot. Just a charmastic kind of guy, and that's really good for being a YT Influencer.
@MichaelNROH i still cant decide between fedora or unbuntu as they both look very good to me
I am still sad that EA has banned me off Apex Legends with no return, just because THEY failed to make sure the files required for their anti-cheat to work on Linux are shipped with the game. Valve fixed that later in Proton, but I was unlucky, and they simply refused to unban me. I just started playing and was hoping for having some fun, but they simply won't let me. EA is a pretty bad company for having these kinds of extreme restrictions on support, which allow for only three appeal attempts altogether. And often they won't even give any human response at all and just take what the system tells them.
I agree, your ban is arbitrary and unfair. Good news is, Valve’s new TPS/Moba is incredibly good. So you’ll have something great to play down the road
Unlucky. I'm not sure what the timeframe is for your bans but I was banned multiple times on different accounts on Linux and was unbanned every time. This was around the time they announced official support a long time ago. It did take a while but it seems the unbans were performed automatically by Respawn because I was unbanned whether I appealed or not. Of course these days I don't think you even get banned anymore.
@@blossomcherrypinkWell, I was unlucky and I wasn't unbanned.
EA are notorious cunts, no other way to describe them.
Linux Platform has now been banned from Apex completely
Another great video, I've been playing on Linux many years now and there's no better time than now, Valve's Proton and peripherals support is almost 1:1. The only thing we are lacking is anticheat support but some companies which aren't willing to support Linux are not worh my money imo.
I was a bit hesitant about trying Linux because I heard it doesn't have anti-cheat software yet. But honestly, I think the difference would be negligible in most FPS games anyway, lol.
@@klipzGand it's not like the invasive anticheat actually helps. Apex is banning Linux users, sure, but it's still got an infamous cheating crisis.
its nice that linux is getting better for games but its edge in C programming is what wins it for me
Nobara Linux is my preferred Linux Gaming OS. OOB setup for fantastic performance. Great community support and built upon Fedora. Rock solid.
second nobara. Its like fedora, but with all desired patches buidt-in at installation
I had some driver issue with that (nvidia ), arch looks better
Im not a gamer, i use AMD,The only game that i play is megaglest and Psp emulator..
@@fabricio4794 amd is so nice for linux
@@darthkielbasa bro can I use premier and photoshop as wine in jt
I appreciate the “look at the visuals” approach to choosing a distro
OMG, Thanks for the Discord workaround!!!
It was killing me to use it through firefox with a double prompt to share my screen each time.. and it wasn`t as good as this workaround!
You're always the best, @Michael. You've helped me get more use to Linux. I needed to watch this to help my Wife get more games available on the Steam Deck that I bought her few years back. She just started playing again on 12-07-2024. Yeah, she hasn't played since got the first SD right at release, because she had carpal tunnel (using laptop too much). But, it's better now, so I'm happy she picked up the SD tonight and wanted to try and start using it again. Her favorite games back then were Farm Together, StarDew Valley, and some Chef cooking game.
I've been using Linux Mint over 4 months, never going back to Windows.
I only been on Linux for four days and I’m losing my mind it is so annoying every time you have to do whatever you need to write a code that you have to find somewhere and then write it in the terminal it’s the most annoying thing ever I’m gonna stick with windows 10 forever unfortunately
@@onkelhiphop i used to be like that until I started learning programming and found out the codes are not a random string but just a series of instructions that make sense once you learn them. Just like knowing which of the control panels to go to in windows or the fact that the tool you are using in windows is trash and there's a better hidden tool, the command line is about getting used to.
To install stuff, half of them are on the appatore and the "sudo packetmanagername program" just does the same thing. You can even search if you know what you need but are not sure.
After getting used to it Ive gone from being annoyed at the exact same thing as you to appreciating the fact you have an access to the official download, virus, popup and wait timer free without having to filter through sketchy sites. (And as a bonus not having to go through a bunch of different iterations of the control panel and still resorting to using regedit and cmd only to find out windows doesn't allow it/its bugged eg changing appdata folder to not be on the tiny nvme)
@@onkelhiphop lol use chatgpt for that, makes the process super easy. Don't even have to type to chat gpt either if youre on the phone, just go into a call with it
@@onkelhiphop what kind of problem you ran into that makes you to do all of this?
I've used Kali, Ubuntu, and recently (and my favorite) Mint. I cannot recommend Mint enough. The people who complain about a terminal have not used a mainstream distro in a half a decade, are not tech savvy to begin with. Windows is for children. Linux is for adults.
For AMD users. If you want more fan control over your discrete GPU, you should try LACT.
Fedora gang :D
Im glad more people are loving it! It's my favorite from the ones ive tried so far
One thing you could have mentioned is that it depends on how you choose the games you play.
If you are a casual player that just plays whatever works, gaming on linux is not that bad, there are plenty of titles that work.
If you are a social player, that grabs the latest games to play with your mates, linux might not be a good choice. It might take some time after the launch of the game for it to get to a playable state on linux, so when you are able to start you will be behind your peers that were in other platforms.
Good point!
Only applies to games with rootkit malware anti-cheat, you shouldn't play them anyways. F Riot Games.
@@SammyGoated No, plenty of games doesn't run or run poorly on the first few weeks to a month, some even for longer, despite not having anti-cheats.
It takes some time for the community to find the workarounds to make some games work. Sure, there are some that work out of the box, but my point stands, you can't simply decide to play a new game and play, because it may be still not running well.
@@MarcusBuer What games in particular?
@@MarcusBuer I've been playing most new releases of this year with no issue almost day one. You might be referring to the games/companies which actively aren't supporting Linux with their tech implementations, ie. Rockstar, Bungie, Riot, etc.
I recently moved to Linux gaming on Ubuntu and so far it’s been flawless thanks for your video
Appreciate you pointing out we no longer need shader caching on Steam. Such a minor thing that nobody seems to talk about, and I had zero idea DXVK got updated to make this obsolete. One more minor annoyance eliminated for gaming on Linux!
Great video, need more UA-camrs to support Linux and help everyone improve Linux, we are bored of trash Windows and the bad things about Windows, Linux is way better for cheap / old hardwares, keep it up and increase the marketshare, Linux should be easier to use
O will do a channel
7:00 If you use KDE Plasma you do NOT need Flatseal as this function is build into KDE in System Settings -> Application Permissions
KDE is awesome.
4 years running arch, 1 reinstall due to upgrade on storage, no biblic screw ups as of yet, and since proton 5.13 no issues running my games other than the old CPU not capable of high FPS but still playing all big launches since then.
did you get it first try though
@skittles.abuser I used linux at college, so I just changed from that to daily driving a few years later. I don't even rely on GUI's for most of the system maintenance to the point I'm even using Hyprland alone, sound, network, a bluetooth dongle, docker containers running some self hosted apps, all on text editors and terminal (not really a fan of TUI editors) work just fine.
Thanks so much for the discord screen share fix!! I have been just using discord within the Firefox browser, but that's missing so many features, most notably I can't raise anyone's volume above 100%. This isba game changer and is bringing me one step closer to going full Linux 100% of the time!
@@johncaseyjenkins
I use Vesktop instead of Discord. Now i can share screen in Discord
Steam, Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Launcher has been a life saver for me. I fully switched to Linux because I could game on it reliably now. Well, from the games I am playing. Not to mention it freed up my system resources for other things like focusing on the work apps I am using for work.
Great video! It's awesome to see how far Linux gaming has come. The performance improvements and the variety of available titles are really impressive. Thanks for sharing these tips and insights!
The only thing preventing me from permanently jumping from Windows to Linux is the capture card (Elgato) and several old games on GOG. I want everything to work, and despite googling, there are no solutions to my problems. The capture card doesn't have Linux support, and GOG games like Blood Omen, Messiah, Boken Sword series to mention a few just don't work. Tried several runners, dependencies, settings etc.
There's only so much work and time I'm willing to spend. Proton is going the right way, but not all the way just yet.
I feel your Elgato pain. Comparable capture cards, especially PCIe ones, are far more expensive and don't really offer much more on return.
I honestly never understood why Elgato used a specific Windows library for their capture instead of something more universal like they already did with their USB ones
Your my favorite linux youtuber out of the bunch I've seen. I really like how you don't make the user use the terminal, and you explain things so clearly and I learn stuff I didn't even know I wanted. Thanks!
Excellent content. Keep it coming!
Thanks alot gonna do this on a setup awesome video!
gonna give it a try for my new AM5 build. Thanks for the video
Welcome, all Copilot refugees.
Very nice sum up.
Running mInimal Arch Linux on my gaming pc (dual boot) with minimal Gnome Shell, traditional X11, NVidia drivers and Pulseaudio. Firefox and Steam are the only apps installed. Nearly 80% of my Steam games work out of the box. Easy! 😀 Great video by the way!
god how i would love this setup + emulation
great video. I haven't used linux outside of my raspberry pi, thinking about moving my main pc to linux and was worried as i built my rig for gaming. once windows no longer supports 10 i'm pretty sure i will migrate over and this makes me feel a bit more confident about the transition.
I will try linux for the first time, thanks to you :)
@tristen_grant typo :P
Did you do it? If you did, how easy is it, and have all of your games worked so far?
@@blamejohnath I did, I'm using Fedora so far so good, it's was great experience
Well summarized👍 U should keep Linux gaming vids updated and compare different distros with Windows.
Good summary of gaming on Linux today, thanks! I will consider the switch once Windows 10 loses support.
Best video! Super concise yet detailed enough for me to jump off of!
Gotta say, for the two years Linux improved a lot when it comes to gaming. Tried a few distros and aa far as I can remember Fedora was the one I barely had any performance problems. (Currently on Mint 22)
Next big step for me is probably getting a Steamdeck.
Installed Arch because I want Rolling release, AUR, and max pain and frustration... the recent valve collab was the cherry on top
I've got Linux Mint installed on my 12 year old desktop, as with the impending Windows 10 not possible to upgrade to 11 I think Linux is the best option. Really like Mint, very easy to use and everything just works, it recognised all the drivers including the Nvidia graphics card, so very impressed with it. Didn't know about the option to turn on compatibility for Steam, many thanks for that! Think I may get rid of Windows from this PC in a few months as support for Win 10 is gone. Linux works so well I'm very impressed. Thank you mate!
the win11 requirements are not real, you can use rufus to make an image with them disabled but ofc stick to linux 100%
Cachyos, does make a huge difference as it fixes nvidia stuff
completely?
@@NidrixGlandda IMO no. 560 open kernel drivers are broken and you have to do some tweaks to make it work good.
Good content. Subscribed.
Thanks
Just wish AMD would release Adrenaline Software on Linux; hopefully in the future things will improve.
It's a weird thing that there haven't been any efforts yet. Almost two years ago they hired people for UI/UX design on Linux, but nothing ever came from it
Thank you ❤
6:23 This!
Thank you so much
My main gripe with hardware support is the peripherals like mice, keyboards and headsets. If you want an extra functionality working, you either have to find a project like Input mapper or others that can do 50% of the things, but not 100, and it's a hassle. First party support of these devices should be a thing
true but nowadays you can run windows apps containerized and share drivers and use the software that way no?
Thank you very much.
You are welcome
Linux user here definitely a superior Os for software development, coding etc..
Gaming on the other hand is better on a debloated version of Windows.
We're in a chicken and egg scenario. Linux has a LOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG way to go but it won't get there until we all start using it.
there is just one thing you have to know, if you bought your game outside of steam you got no support. No games from GoG, Ubisoft or the EA launcher have anyone who cares if they work.
Suggest to go with a rolling release distro/OS - Fedora is a very good. You need most latest updates when you are gaming on Linux. I'm with Arch. Most of games work smoothly.
Fedora is a great middle ground. I update once a week and the upgrade list is always packed with stuff.
Arch is good too tho, bunch of updates every single day pretty much.
"installing software on linux should be preferably done via the package manager or software store" - while I strongly agree with this, I think Steam is special case especially when it comes to Fedora. My personal recommendation is to make sure you are not installing the Flatpak or Snap version of Steam due to certain compatibility issues. Don't get me wrong though I love flatpaks and I recommend them for anything else but from my own personal experience I noticed the native Steam is better.
I noticed this as well. I just had an issue yesterday where I installed a new GPU and the flatpak version of a steam stopped working because it didn’t recognize the new drivers, and that made all my games unplayable. I uninstalled it and installed the Steam version from my distro’s repository using the package manager and it fixed the issue.
I can play Jazzpunk and CS2 so I'm happy :)
Screen sharing with sound in Discord has been a long running issue already. It would be so easy if you could just connect OBS stream to it and be done, but nope that's not an option.
Well actually you can sort of do that by setting up virtual webcam kernel module and then feed it to the Discord as live webcam feed. The image quality, frame rate and audio quality take a tremendous hit but this way I could stream output rather reliably with audio with great level of control what goes into the audio and what does not.
I moved over to Linux a couple of weeks ago and I miss playing Warzone but I hate Windows enough to where I will not go back. I have 2 machines running Linux my main machine is running PopOS 24.04 Cosmic and my 2013 Mac is running PopOS 22.04 both run excellent
nice video ty
The lack of official screen sharing with audio support on Discord is tragic and switching to something like Matrix and screen sharing just doesn't cut it
Nobara Linux is very good for gaming, based on fedora but glorious eggroll is the main contributor I think and it comes with a lot of gaming oriented fixes out the box so it’s amazing for beginners
As far as pure gaming is concerned, I can recommend Garuda Linux. The only gaming related thing I had to do, was install a controller related plugin for Steam to recognize a Bluetooth controller; wired controller was working out of the box. Everything else, just plug & play, no utilities, plugins, no terminal commands.
As for non gaming related stuff, yes, it will probably take some time to familiarize yourself with utilities for fan control, rgb, that sort of thing.
Make a video for batocera retro console
I haven't swapped yet, but thank you
Could u make a video on the Conky application and how to customize it? Keep up the amazing videos
Thanks Mike, you are a gangster!
I'm so happy to see you're a fedora guy
window king 👑
Friendship ended with traditional distros. Now Bazzite is my best friend.
What is non-traditional about it?
@@yurithebrave It's an immutable distro. You can't basically make changes to root filesystem and many system files, and you install softwares mostly using Flatpak.
This way it's more secure and you can avoid the system to fall into the dependency hell and other bad situations related to packages.
@@Crested6812 Ahh, right, I know what these are, didn't know Bazzite is one, thanks!
Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, Kenoite) is also like this, an immutable distro. I tried it and it’s very cool. Everything is compartmentalized and there are snapshots of system updates and package installs so you can roll back changes if something goes wrong, or delete a toolbox if you have issues with installed packages. You can even install sets of packages temporarily in containers and delete them all in one go without affecting anything else. The downside is that it is harder to troubleshoot system issues because the system is read only, which can be a real issue when you can’t edit system files, even as root.
(Coming form a guy who JUST installed mint for good this time) TERMINAL ROCKS I AINT USING EXECUTABLES ANYMORE
My main issue is VR. I recently got a CV1 but I'd like to still play Beat Saber with all my mods and etc...
Nice video, but most of the stuff is already well documented. It would've been better, if you talked about enabling HDR on Gnome and KDE, because that's where the confusion lies.
Damn I’ve never before installed another os on my pc but u make it seem so easy an intuitiv ill give it a shot
Oh and till now ive only ever been running windows 😅
austria peace be upon you sir from me
My main problem with gaming on linux is nvidia gpus and driving simulator with a wheel, some wheels aren't recognized on linux sadly
Hello, brand newbie here (switched to linux just a few days ago). Thank you for your video. Is bottles a wine replacement? Or do i need to also have wine installed in order to use bottles? I love the word play in all this LOL.
Only thing keeping me from making the move is ALVR with wireless needs some work with encoding settings and anti-chat with a lot of games, particularly East Anti-cheat.
bad move disabling pre caching, its not really noticable unless you run advanced overlays with frametiming graph, the 1% low is much more stable with precaching so leave it on dummy and just tick the background process, overnight a massive library is up to date, hope this helps
After a lot of fighting with it, I finally got linux to play nice with my laptop...up until I figured out that it didn't play nice with my fan controls and I'd eventually just overheat.
The preferred method of installing software on Linux is by using the terminal, you shouldn't tell people to use the package manager or software store. I understand most people stay away from Linux cause of the terminal, but it's not that hard to learn how to use it, and once you do, the way how a Linux system is structured becomes clearer to the user, which imho is a crucial part of the learning curve.
The problem is no one wants to "learn" a PC. For me the terminal is like showing people winget since it's faster to install software.
No one would listen
@@MichaelNROH I totally get that and actually agree for the most part, but to truly understand the inner workings of the system one should learn how to use the terminal, but package managers and software stores are indeed good tools for introducing Linux to beginners in a more "tame" manner to say so.
@@goodtimeschan people dont want to understand anything they wanna game bro
@skittles.abuser Well, most people, yeah, but you see, at some point, everybody who owns a computer had to learn how to use an OS (the majority of course being Windows). I won't argue about the user experience, yes, Linux is NOT as user friendly as Windows, I'll give you that, but things are changing a LOT. Distros such as Mint are really changing the game, and making Linux way more accessible for the average user. These days pretty much anybody can setup a a basic Linux system and if you're good at following instructions, setup pretty much anything, the support base for Linux is amazing, I dare to say it's even BETTER than Windows. The Arch Wiki is awesome, one can solve pretty much anything just by following it's instructions. Anyway, things are changing, also, the Steam Deck is acting as a gateway to Linux for many new users, so there's that. Linux's market share remains pretty small, but it's growing steadily, personally I don't believe it will ever surpass Windows, not even in 100 years, but who knows, something might happen. What I do think it's possible and might happen is that Linux grows to become at least number two, the Pepsi to Microsoft's Coca-Cola. Well, no one knows for sure what the future reserves, but it sure is fun to witness the changes.
I went to linux and so far I'm finding linux to be flat out better.
Edge cases like simracing need custom drivers(literally find the commonly reccomended driver and copy paste some commands into terminal) and vr needs to make sure you are using right proton.
So far only issues i've had have been:
Something not working cause secureboot was enabled.
Me installing wayland incorrectly and it causing games to crash after a bit
For the rest games run as good or sometimes flat out better and without crashing compared to windows.
You might not always want to disable shader precaching. Some games send transcoded video files and might not play if shader precaching is disabled.
Video files have nothing to do with shader caching. Since the files you download have already been compiled for your hardware there is no reason why it can't compile it itself. Depending on the game there could be stutters, but it shouldn't have anything to do with compatibility
Also disabling shader precaching might lead to stutter in some titles. Runtime compiling is only possible without stuttering on games that are more CPU limited than GPU limited. If your GPU is pegged at 100% it will need to decrease the frametime to reserve resources for shader compilation.
Shader pre-caching is a fantastic feature, not having it enabled is a mistake
It doesn't affect the gaming experience on higher end GPUs and skips the daily downloads which can get annoying at times. I see this as a win
@@MichaelNROHIn my experience there are games which will stutter without it regardless of hardware. Isn't it why games like Elden Ring run more smoothly on Steam Deck than on Windows at launch?
@@MichaelNROH Wrong, shaders compilation affects any hardware especially in the new games.
I've tried moving to linux since the 90's, Suse, Redhat, Mint, Slackware, Ubuntu etc. Every single time I run into a dealbreaker somewhere, forcing me back to windows. It's just not working for me. Also, I work in IT...the last thing I need in my life is the endless tinkering with that damn computer in my spare time. I really don't know how people find the time to get it working. Windows it is. They can have my metadata, I don't care anymore.
I'm looking at a linux-based machine for my next PC. I was curious about the part about NVIDIA. I picked up that AMD was a better choice and so have been looking at AMD-based systems. But if, as you showed, an nvidia system has no issues and you just install the drivers, it opens up a lot of options. Honestly, I was hoping to arrange something very like a Steam Deck -- it's distro, along with the KD5 plasma interface, and steam.
What's the theme on the thumbnail? It looks quite nice
I'm still stuck in limbo between Windows and Fedora because I can't break away from Office 365 and Once Human is not supported...
Putting processor in performance mode helps with the anticheat. You set a higher benchmark when you log into steam. Lot of the time the anticheat is kicked off by ram usage. I use emulators to play nintendo, playstation, and xbox games. I have had issues with controller mapping like with non nintendo wii controllers. Personally I found windows games run fine using wine, and proton. I think Linux actually is better than windows now. It takes less time on Linux than on windows to do most things. And don't need to download and extra program to do things.
Just in case somebody wondering, original Playstation Dualshock 3 is supported in Linux both plugged or via Bluetooth.
Can you talk about VR gaming in linux ? This is the only thing that not many poeple in the linux community talk about!
yeah, that would be very helpful
its not very good right now. there have been some leaks from valve that suggests that there will be a Linux based stand-alone VR headset at some point, so hopefully it will improve over the next few years.
I've found vr in linux works fine for games that are running inside steam but any vr games that you have outside steam just don't work very well.
I can't really unless I make a video based on assumptions. VR headsets are still relatively expensive unfortunately.
@@MichaelNROH There are really good headsets for not that high of a price now.
like the quest 3s for 299$ or the
quest 2 for 249$
If you don't have SteamVR compatible headset, you might as well walk away. Tho if you do, it's much better then it was just few months ago, valve has been updating linux version of steamvr quite regularly now, tho you still need one of the linux supported headsets, with the og htc vive and index being still the best supported, but I read that the quest 2 & 3 are much better as well nowdays trough ALVR. And others are try out and see. Still no smoothing and no lighthouse management tho. And you need beefier PC than if you played on windows because of no smoothing, if you don't want to see "echo" of your previous frames.
But from my experience on with amd gpu(RX 6600), HL: Alyx works, Contractors works, VRChat works(regular proton version are spotty, better to use the Proton GE RTSP), Hyper Dash works, Into the Radius works, Rumble works(on AMD, I know it didn't support nvidia), Beat Saber works(you need to downgrade to an older version tho), Zenith works, Skyrim VR works, and that concludes my VR library I tried on linux.
Nice and informative video content, thanks a lot for that, highly appreciated.
Can you generally say whether one should currently lean either towards NVIDIA or rather AMD when it comes to choosing a modern graphics card? Not only in terms of performance, but also concerning things like driver support, technologies like (especially global/driver-controlled) G-Sync/FreeSync, or whether there are special things to consider with global graphics settings for non Linux games?
What about ‘old fashioned problems’ like for example screen tearing or freezing and crashing bugs that can occur when you frequently tab back and forth between the desktop and the game itself (I'm specifically using the latter as an example because I remember having massive problems with exactly that back some time using GNOME + NVIDIA, although that was years ago... but bad memories and experiences always got the habit to remain in the back of one's mind).
It would also be very interesting to know whether you can use Wayland without any problems in the meantime or whether it can cause any heavy problems. I lately considered switching to Sway Display Manager on my Linux PC...
Thanks in advance, keep up with that great content!
If all you want to do is gaming then go AMD, no arguments.
Running Nobara 40... rock solid foundation for my gaming/programming rig. I also love the Snaphots feature, this combined with slightly older kernels being saved makes for a very robust system with very little downtime since I can merely boot from a slightly older kernel and delete the damaged one. After a few updates I am back up and running with the latest kernel again. Spectacular! NEVER going back to Windows, ever again.
ROCKSTARRRRRR!!!!!!!!
The final frontier is kernel level anti cheat. Hopefully that will be solved in the near future.
@@roborob347 Games that have a kernel-level anti cheat don't deserve your time
@@TheFrontmanRocker I agree. That is why I refuse to duel boot windows on my PC just to play them. I hope the rise of Linux gaming will make devs second guess implementing such invasive software.
Microsoft themselves are planning to ban kernel level anti cheat. xD
@@TheShawMustGoOnSadly, this isn't true. A bunch of people just misread Microsoft's announcement. They just want to introduce safer ways to interact with the kernel. So it will either not affect Linux at all or make it worse
@spatiumowl It's not clear at all what they are planning and there have to be changes. If they want to prevent a new crowdstrike situation, then they need to somehow force developers to use their new implementations, since if it's a choice then the same thing can happen again
Why did you not cover PortProton 😢 it’s far superior to lutris and bottles while being just as powerful and has a large community
Absolutely! I am a big fan of PortProton. I used to run all my Windoes games and software withe CodeWeaver Crossover. But PortProton runs everything way better!
i would LOVE to switch to linux but the only thing stopping me is vanguard not being supported. i unfortunately play league and all my friends do, so that’s a big limit
I have a problem in CS2. When playing for a long time, the system crashes and I get an input/output error in the console (the file system error).
Your smile go ood
If i want discord , you should definitely recommend vesktop
crazy that he didnt mention it, or doesn't know about it
Screen sharing is just an issue from Wayland. Thats why I use Xorg instead. At least stable.
Steam has made it very easy to game on linux. But there is still some room for improvement. For example, Steam doesn't recognize that you're using linux, and automatically switch the games over to linux mode. You have to manually go in there and do it yourself, each time you want to install a new game. Not a huge deal, but it would be cool if you just hit the "Play" button like you can on windows. Next problem is that if you want to play a game that's not on steam, there's usually several more steps. You have to install something like Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris. And there's a setup that you have to do for each game. Unlike with Steam. But Ai is coming to help at least. Soon there will be a good FOSS Ai that will make everything just work on linux easily.
EA sports would run on kernel ??
unfortunately it becomes difficult to use when you have to do silly things like install WeMod and have an easy-to-use and always up-to-date distrubution
you can turn pre-shading off??????????????????????????????????????
what software did you download for the settings menu in 3:06
Do you mean the one for the experimental settings?
It's called dconf editor
Linux of be absolutely perfect if it supported call of duty. Say what you say about the series but sometimes I don't have too much time to sit there and play story games and that would be nice to have a good arcade shooter.
It would be phenomenal. Not only on the Desktop but possible future Linux based consoles
@@MichaelNROH It would be more than phenomenal. Currently using Chimera OS as my main build for the living room, definitely annoying when I boot up windows and have to navigate it with a controller and key oard while I wait for all the pop-ups to finish loading on boot. (With an NVMe and literally just steam installed.)
i use windows 10 btw