Why Linux Gaming is Thriving in 2024 (and What to Expect)

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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2024

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  • @VictorSouza02
    @VictorSouza02 3 дні тому +25

    This year was incredible for Linux. After years on Windows, I was able to stay on Linux without missing anything.
    But for gamers like me who play some "sparrow" games, the experience can be more complex than Windows if the person doesn't understand how Wine prefixes work to install the famous "repacks". Some cracks don't work with Proton and you need to know how to manage your prefix and know when Wine-ge is needed.
    If you only play through Steam you will have a great experience without much effort, but if you want something outside of that you will have to dedicate some time to learning about Wine/Lutris or Heroic.

    • @DerEchteAndrej
      @DerEchteAndrej 2 дні тому

      Absolutely, you need dedication and an intrinsic motivation to put in the effort.
      If one has this and a couple of days to put in the effort - then you would not regret anything.
      Most important to keep in mind: It isn't hard(er) but only different - be open and learn something new. It is worth it .

  • @claudiodiaz9752
    @claudiodiaz9752 3 дні тому +41

    I refuse to go back to windows. If all online games change to use kernel anticheats, I'll just play offline games.

    • @dakarma2553
      @dakarma2553 3 дні тому

      @@claudiodiaz9752 10 days on cachy os, every online game i play is still working perfectly as it was, The Finals and Space Marine 2, even Sea of Thieves works perfectly out of the box

    • @ismailtilki
      @ismailtilki 2 дні тому +2

      since i changed to linux. now i got a feeling how deep a kernel ac goes in your system and sniffs around. and since i have linux it feels so snappy and light like a feather😩

    • @arthurwiebusch9292
      @arthurwiebusch9292 13 годин тому

      hey dude, what distro are u using? I thought fedora was the right option but i had some problems installing nvidia drivers

    • @dakarma2553
      @dakarma2553 12 годин тому

      @@arthurwiebusch9292 Fedora gave me troubles for nvidia too, but these issues seem to be resolved for me, but I prefer way much using CachyOS (based on Arch), and even though its Arch, you have way less work to do to run games, and most things actually, really easy, the cachyos documentation is almost unneeded except if you find yourself in the need to tweak to get the most performances for demanding games

  • @MacWills
    @MacWills 3 дні тому +28

    I play WoW on Linux, on windows I drop to 50-60fps in high population areas, but on Linux I literally stay above 100fps even in raid

    • @k3ppi537
      @k3ppi537 3 дні тому +1

      Youre using lutris or Bottles ?

    • @MacWills
      @MacWills 3 дні тому

      @@k3ppi537 I use Lutris personally

    • @MacWills
      @MacWills 3 дні тому

      @@k3ppi537 I use Lutris personally

    • @MacWills
      @MacWills 3 дні тому

      @@k3ppi537 Lutris mate

    • @MacWills
      @MacWills 2 дні тому +1

      @@k3ppi537 Personally I'm using Lutris, I tried bottles a while back, Lutris seems to work better for me

  • @2ru2pacFan
    @2ru2pacFan 3 дні тому +5

    The reason I'm excited about Linux thriving is that I don't want to miss anything from Windows and any online gaming I do it all on my PS5 and any offline gaming for mods I can do it all on Linux so it's a win-win!

  • @ArcMageXe
    @ArcMageXe 3 дні тому +7

    Actually I'm surprised by Linux gaming today, last time tried Mint 21.3 Edge and encountered quite much problems, it was like 15-18 months ago, before this I tried Fedora 38 and also wasn't quite nice, but now, 3 weeks ago tried CachyOS and I'm really positively shocked, all my games from Win11 run Instantly without any of my interfere, just few clicks, mostly by Proton 9, Experimental or Lutris, especially for older games, I know that no EAC games for me, but I can live without that (Paladins, Smite, basically almost dead titles 😂) and on the other hand I have better and more stable OV2 gameplay which really surprised me, and as a Intel ARC user, I must say, didn't expected this kind of stability, performance and quality in gaming on Linux 2024 😲🕹️🎮 hope it will only get better, and that resources management, KDE Plasma with normal (1.6GB) RAM usage 😂 not like my old win11 friend with 5.6GB usage right out of the box 😅😂 cheers 🥂 for CachyOS Team 🎉👏🏼

    • @fooboomoo
      @fooboomoo 3 дні тому

      after trying a bunch of arch based distros after using Manjaro for 10 years cachy just felt instantly right and i don't even game much.

    • @paultapping9510
      @paultapping9510 2 дні тому +2

      cacheOS is a lot more gaming focussed than mint, but GE has made a LOT of progress with proton in the last couple of years, and there has also been more support from the big gpu vendors and steam. I think the Steam Deck may be the best thing that has happened to linux in a long while!

  • @TheDirk74
    @TheDirk74 3 дні тому +4

    Also, I like your takes and your videos a lot! Keep up the good work, Monsieur!

    • @A1RM4X
      @A1RM4X  3 дні тому

      Thank you very much!

  • @cybernit3
    @cybernit3 3 дні тому +4

    Nice overview of Linux Gaming 2024; the only negatives was low performance in a few games like Blackmyth Wukong and the anti-cheat anti- linux trend for some mmo games, but nothing is perfect and hopefully in late 2025 those issues will be resolved.

  • @LinuxIsForAll
    @LinuxIsForAll 3 дні тому +6

    Great video man, I think 2025 will be amazing for Linux gaming!

    • @A1RM4X
      @A1RM4X  3 дні тому +1

      Definitely!

  • @antiwokehuman
    @antiwokehuman 3 дні тому +2

    Your channel is amazing man. I love listening to you. Keep up the good work

    • @A1RM4X
      @A1RM4X  3 дні тому

      Glad you enjoy it!

  • @ThePhenoix504FI3D1
    @ThePhenoix504FI3D1 День тому

    My transition from windows to fedora was a god send.
    Fedora 41 is almost a flawless distribution with mostly minimal apps installed by default.

  • @SirVisigoth
    @SirVisigoth 3 дні тому +1

    Another nice unbiased view at he gaming situation, Thanks A1RM4X

  • @Logvon9
    @Logvon9 3 дні тому +1

    Path Of Exile 2, I'm so excited to play this game on linux for years to come.

  • @chungushook
    @chungushook 3 дні тому +3

    VR is still not there and probably won't be for a while, but otherwise its very good. Only non-vr game i played on windows this year was alan wake 2, because of performance issues (probably epic launcher related)

    • @Silverhks
      @Silverhks 2 дні тому

      I installed Garuda in a dual boot just to try it out in June. I've been impressed enough that at this point it's my everyday unless I want to do VR.

    • @chungushook
      @chungushook 2 дні тому +1

      @Silverhks similar story for me only with fedora and then endeavour. Vr takes enough time to set up that rebooting doesn't really make much difference anyways.

  • @paultapping9510
    @paultapping9510 2 дні тому

    I recently moved over from vanilla debian to picaOS, a more gaming focused Debian distro, based on Sid, and the difference is quite marked. Gaming is by no means bad on vanilla debian, but picas collection of kernel patches and software handles visuals and framerate much better. For e.g. I went from running THPS 1+2 at the lowest settings, fixed at 60fps, to running it at max, and it being locked at 90fps. My 'problem' is that I generally don't play graphically intensive games, so testing is harder. Overall, I do think it's worth looking at more gaming focused distros like Nobara, cacheOS, and picaOS if you want to get the best out of your hardware.

  • @RexRex-n5t
    @RexRex-n5t 3 дні тому +1

    2024 was the year of Wayland I feel. nVidia became usable on Wayland this year, sadly nvidia-settings is still barebones but still. This is the year a lot of distros really went all in on Wayland, Valve is also doing serious work there and I feel like this is going to be the path forward. For gaming we had a few ups and downs. Apex Legends was a serious loss, even if the game is a bad one in my view. EA abandoning Linux like that was a bad look for the system, and that becoming more of a trend would be horrible. Valve say they have solutions in the works, lets hope they do for the Deck's sake and Linux. I have been toying with trying to set up a cloud based solution using a Windows computer with something like Moonlight/Sunshine to see if that would work for stubborn Windows only stuff. Next year I will set this up. I am going to limit my Windows use to nothing if I can help it. Next goal after that is to only use FOSS for tools, browsers etc.

  • @tech.curiosity
    @tech.curiosity 3 дні тому +1

    J'aimes bien écouter ton frenglish. En tout cas merci pour la vidéo, j'en avais besoin pour prendre une décision.

  • @esaedvik
    @esaedvik 3 дні тому +2

    Tbh, haven't had any issues with games on Linux so far in a year and a half of Nobara+X11. I have to do the same settings optimizations as on Windows, since I don't have a 4090, I have a 5700X3D+7800XT (undervolted) and an ultrawide.
    I've just gone through my library of recent games and tested how they run. I haven't done hours and hours of gaming per game though.
    Mostly I tried to find nice balanced settings for 60FPS and have the game not look terrible. I don't do competitive games, so 60 is mostly fine.
    The game I fiddled with the most, was The Ascent. I also can't run Wayland atm due to one crucial app not supporting it yet. Alan Wake 2 I tested a bunch of combinations on too, following some guides for dropping graphical options that don't matter fidelity wise, but give a few extra FPS. Space Marine 2 was decent a while after release, Last Epoch was good, Baldur's Gate 3 runs at like 4k120, Warhammer 40k: Darktide runs fine too.

  • @silentJET85
    @silentJET85 3 дні тому

    The thing I'm most excited about is seeing NVK continue to improve.
    It will be awesome to be able to install any distro and have Nvidia cards automatically work.

  • @astronemir
    @astronemir 3 дні тому

    Looking for your top 5! I’m gonna get some PC upgrades on Black Friday and looking forward to trying the gaming related distros, upgrading from my boring Ubuntu setup

  • @gmanprime500
    @gmanprime500 2 дні тому

    I don't run many online games with kernel lvl anticheat but I have heard rumors that Microsoft may lock down their kernel lvl access because of the crowdstrike incident a bit ago, if that happens I feel that will be a major boon to multi-player access on linux.

  • @77wolfblade
    @77wolfblade 3 дні тому +1

    Judging by the looks of things, I think Linux is working better for a lot of older games.

  • @solarpowder962
    @solarpowder962 3 дні тому

    Hi @A1RM4X, you can safely put Hunt:Showdown 1896 on your list. On my NVIDA machine on CachyOS, it runs buttersmooth since 3 weeks. There were a few hickups with the game not starting, where i had to switch to "Proton-Experimental Bleeding Edge", but since three weeks or so, it runs absolutely flawless. On my dual-boot Windows (which i need for PUBG :-( ) i have the game installed as well and i can say that i experience more FPS-drops on Windows. The only issue i have with Linux is the not-working In-Game Gamma setting (which i offset by using a custom Monitor Profile).
    Thanks for your videos! 🙂

  • @TheDirk74
    @TheDirk74 3 дні тому

    I am using a Beelink Ryzen Mini-PC for Emulation and playing older PC/Steam games under Linux (Pop_OS in my case). It's just incredible how easy gaming under Linux has become, compared to the state like 10 to 20 years ago. Thanks to Valve, of course, but also many other Open Source projects. My main gaming PC is still running Windows 11, since I regularly play CoD, Fortnite with my wife and my family. So no 100% Linux gaming for me, but I enjoy using my Linux machine for my single player bucket list/pile of shame. And I would totally switch instantly to Linux if there is some day a solution to the Kernel level anti-cheat issue.

  • @DerEchteAndrej
    @DerEchteAndrej 2 дні тому

    After losing my finished but not yet saved tax declaration 2 weeks ago due to another forced windows restart I finally got the intrinsic motivation to switch finally (failed 2 times before)
    I put 3 days of full effort to setup Mint properly for gaming until all run how I wanted it to run - using part 5 of your series as a starting point.
    Booted not once into windows 10 since.
    Let's hope the Steam Deck 2 won't flop so valve will keep pushing gaming on Linux - then there is not a single reason to go back.

  • @youtubevanced4900
    @youtubevanced4900 День тому

    Is HDR still broken on Catchy? I moved back to windows after having serious issues with HDR.
    Also interested in Ray Tracing performance on Nvidia in Catchy?

  • @sourcilavise3788
    @sourcilavise3788 День тому

    I didn't know for the DLSS ! I'm on driver 565 with Fedora 41, will test it tonight !

  • @hamsterer2005
    @hamsterer2005 3 дні тому

    can you do another video on the state of the nvk drivers, i would like to see how much of an improvement there is after all the added vulkan extensions.

  • @mirkodiciano4647
    @mirkodiciano4647 3 дні тому +4

    papa great video we took some losses but we had some wins and i think with steam in linuxs corner and the growing popularity of linux i think 2025 is going to be awesome for linux

  • @LeHoax
    @LeHoax 3 дні тому +5

    We also lost Battlefield 1 and 5. EA went out of their way to patch them, even though they don't really support them anymore. The singleplayer is also unplayable unless you delete the EA anti-cheat files from the game directory.

    • @LinuxIsForAll
      @LinuxIsForAll 3 дні тому +3

      @@LeHoax we also lost Plants vs Zombies garden warfare 2 because of their new anticheat, and I loved playing that game

    • @LeHoax
      @LeHoax 3 дні тому +3

      @@LinuxIsForAll I did not know about that, sorry for your loss brother.

  • @BecauseYadeR
    @BecauseYadeR 2 дні тому

    I really wanted to switch to Linux 100% but League of Legends is one of my main games which I play almost every day and that's holding me back from switching completely until it will become available again on linux I won't be switching and Linux will stay as a side OS sadly :/

  • @DefCantGame
    @DefCantGame 3 дні тому

    My biggest complain about cinnamon is its one of the few DEs that drain my laptop batteries fast vs gnome and kde

  • @elsaeedelsayed7428
    @elsaeedelsayed7428 3 дні тому

    How about you make a video about the engineering applications and the use of them in Linux what is working and what's not and what to expect in the future
    Thanks for your awesome videos

  • @Aleks-it4ok
    @Aleks-it4ok 2 дні тому

    whats stopping me from moving to linux is being not able to undervolt my nvidia card. I need my card to be silent

  • @Ziomal645
    @Ziomal645 3 дні тому

    So much thriving that I cannot play any anti cheat games, and ones I played got cancelled (apex, bf v, bf 1)

  • @t1nytim
    @t1nytim 2 дні тому

    I do very regularl6 find games ive had hundreds or thousands hrs in on windows, sre just so much smoother on linux. Had many friends move since witnessing how much smoother things are on my systen when they come over.

  • @pauloskinner
    @pauloskinner 9 годин тому

    I’m more interested in old or retro games. How is that experience on Linux? I do play one mmo a lot too, Elder Scrolls Online. Anyone knows if ESO is playable on Linux?

  • @Bracket_Man
    @Bracket_Man 3 дні тому

    Does the finals work without disabling avx512?

  • @Ruboka
    @Ruboka 3 дні тому +1

    how is the current state of frame generation for amd gpus on linux? all the information I find is only about NVIDIA, also because the term frame generation is occupied by nvidia. FSR does not yield good information either sadly. I understand that if the games support and use fsr 3(?) it should work on amd, but I have no clear picture about this since the news only cover the added support for nvidia.

    • @77wolfblade
      @77wolfblade 3 дні тому

      Some of the 3rd party versions of Proton like proton GE. AKA Glorious Eggroll seems to work well with FSR.

    • @tablettablete186
      @tablettablete186 3 дні тому +3

      What I know now is that FSR 3 FG and DLSS FG both work under Linux.
      Only AMD AFMF that isn't supported atm

    • @Ruboka
      @Ruboka 3 дні тому +1

      @tablettablete186 is fluid motion frames not the amd frame generation technique? i am so confused by this buzzword rapidfire the big tech companys do year after year. so many acronyms and they only get more confusing

    • @tablettablete186
      @tablettablete186 3 дні тому +1

      @@Ruboka I don't know exactly about the internals, but:
      - FSR 3 is implemented by the game engine (devs need to build code to use frame gen in the game)
      - AFMF is done at driver level and does not require the game to implement frame generation

    • @Ruboka
      @Ruboka 3 дні тому +1

      @tablettablete186 ah okay. that clears it up.
      nvidia is only supported by games directly implementing dlss 3? it would surprise me if its on driver level

  • @nathanwhite5626
    @nathanwhite5626 3 дні тому

    I play the finals but get a hard lock on steam every 3 games or so, have to force close steam and start it again

  • @re-gaming3913
    @re-gaming3913 3 дні тому

    Is elden ring not capped to 60 fps? How did you mod it?

    • @A1RM4X
      @A1RM4X  3 дні тому +1

      Here you go ua-cam.com/video/Aj0Mi03Wy8I/v-deo.html

  • @glenni83
    @glenni83 3 дні тому

    We are pretty much there in a way. Il never stop complaining on Linux to the things I need is fixed. But that`s me in a nutshell. I was pretty much ready to dump Windows, until I started to play Once human. Once human plays like dogshit on Linux sadly. Its on of the few games that runs super bad. So I've been on Linux since late summer last year. I must say it has improved a lot. I was there for the non explicit sync times, when it was hard running games on Lutris. When it was pretty much not possible to run 4k games in a way. Then we had the time before we where introduced to schedulers, and now you can put em on automode and you dont have to think about profiles.. We have gotten UmU Launcher, that helps a lot for lutris and heroic launcher, so it runs pretty much as steam. We can have different refresh hz on both screens. But its like you say, its the Dx12 problems. Those are a killer right now. Worst part, its not all Dx12 games. But pretty much the latest of 2 years. Where I have been tinkering with updating the core files and layers etc. Many times issues can be related to outdated dx12 files. The files given out, has many many updates in the past, where devs have not updated the files when you install em. That can be a performance problem or lead to a crash.

  • @w4rlxrd
    @w4rlxrd 3 дні тому +1

    Linux for life.

  • @ssd6010
    @ssd6010 3 дні тому

    could test balck myth wukong?

  • @Chirp_Bunny
    @Chirp_Bunny 3 дні тому +2

    For anyone's next PC build, go with AMD, you may like the responsiveness on Linux with it.

  • @quizarorobzaqu8558
    @quizarorobzaqu8558 3 дні тому

    Just need better VR supoort and ill go back. Just dual boot for now ACK

  • @Wkaelx
    @Wkaelx 3 дні тому +3

    Vulkan > D3dx

  • @Apemania69
    @Apemania69 3 дні тому +1

    Personally I would never play any game that wants KERNEL LVL system access!!!
    I mean how far they wana reach? Next anticheat requires a camera that is pointed to your screen with your head in the frame?
    No, could not care less about the games use kernel anti cheat.
    I loved to play lol but well, their lost not mine.
    Remind yourself: you talk with your wallet, the less ppl play bc it is kernel anti cheat, the faster they find other solution that is not that intrusive

  • @ColemakDH
    @ColemakDH 3 дні тому

    It's only gotten worse for me since Apex has been banned and it's spread false notions that linux is where the cheaters are when a cheat dev themself said it was only like 5% of the cheaters on Apex

  • @ThePainlessGamer
    @ThePainlessGamer 3 дні тому

    Let’s be honest, the kind of people who play League of Legends aren’t smart enough to want to use Linux

  • @ratlinuxgamer2855
    @ratlinuxgamer2855 3 дні тому +1

    MMM, pika, still has some bugs to resolve. Better ubuntu. ;)

    • @GWFO
      @GWFO 3 дні тому

      Laughs in uwuntu

  • @filipepinho3319
    @filipepinho3319 3 дні тому

    I think linux gaming will thrive as soon the BS kernel anti-cheats are forced to not even exist.... While this doesn't happen, it will limit what we can play in Linux

  • @samnwakefield2032
    @samnwakefield2032 3 дні тому

    Hey guys linux is king..is where all the cool things happens...no sweat about kernel anti cheat whatever...it wont be long after some devs create the antidote...now no sweats...emulators and the software stores GOG...FLATPAKS..ETC...let the windows brainwashers keep using it...the linux community will also be a major system...way too many devs on our side...and im a proud ubuntu and arch linux..second one mainly....the windows fanboys and their ecosystem knows exactly the threat that they are facing and is that linux is catching up to their level in gaming and that terrifies them to the point where they use whatever tactic to diminish linx gaming...but to no avail...we will always create some antidotes...so again from the dominican republic..salute and linux is NOT striving to game keep that in your minds ..linux is king.

  • @Rmonta990
    @Rmonta990 2 дні тому

    I've switched to Linux this year, I don't regret it!
    It gave a second life to my potato hardware. 🤣
    It can now run 2 screens at 2 different refresh rates and resolutions and it can handle several 1080p/1440p video side by side which it couldn't anymore on Windows 10.
    Your channel greatly helped me at that time.

  • @riezzo1350
    @riezzo1350 3 дні тому +4

    Just recently uninstalled windows and now using cachyos,,, way better than windows

    • @凸Bebo凸
      @凸Bebo凸 3 дні тому +5

      CachyOS is the real deal.

    • @esaedvik
      @esaedvik 3 дні тому +2

      I'm considering testing CachyOS' kernel on Nobara for a few more FPS.

    • @souviksaha5416
      @souviksaha5416 3 дні тому

      Do games on cachy linux run out of the box? Like no additional packages need to be installed?

    • @凸Bebo凸
      @凸Bebo凸 3 дні тому

      @@souviksaha5416 You just install the gaming package by clicking one button in the hello app that comes with the system. It comes with pretty much every relevant game launcher and the dependencies they need.

    • @riezzo1350
      @riezzo1350 3 дні тому +1

      @@souviksaha5416 yes sir you wont even realise your are not on WIN.

  • @charika755
    @charika755 3 дні тому

    the first !

  • @CocolinoFan
    @CocolinoFan 3 дні тому +1

    Diablo gaming achievements are not valid, the game is pay2win. Elon is #1 in the would or something xD.
    P.S. I don't play the game, so I don't really know.

    • @esaedvik
      @esaedvik 3 дні тому +2

      Elon's achievement was based on some niche leaderboard no one uses :D Such a lame move. Not saying he isn't good, I guess doing Artificer's Pit in under 2 mins is ok.

    • @VictorSouza02
      @VictorSouza02 3 дні тому +1

      nah he is top 1 because the game has a lot of broken mechanics, there is no weapon/armor itens selling on store and he really play the game lol