Your video made me install Garuda. In my 20 years of using computers i never had so much fun as i am having now with Linux, and i have you to thank for it. I absolutely love tinkering with this system and i don't think i will return to Windows ever again. Thank you.
I'm building my first PC and want to get as far away from Microsoft as i can. This is one of the best videos i've found on how to do this, super easy to follow and beginner oriented, entertaining, covers every question i had. If i can get any of my friends to consider switching from windows, i'll send them here.
good news is Valorant is already giving eyes towards Linux, bad news is you would have to use a custom partial closed source kernel in order to run. (it's not even official, it's just a thought that some dev gave on a Valorant forum about Linux support) and in the case of Easy Anticheat, they are full compatible with Wine/Proton, it's just a matter if the game devs want to opt in or out. now the new EA games like FIFA are using a new anticheat which is not that friendly with Linux nor they care about it at all, and the only thing that can change that is Linux users complain with them (EA).
@@draftofspasiba2 if only that would be true lmfao, considering league the only game i play gets vanguard, im hoping i can somehowi nstall vanguard on unix file system
I started using Linux about a year ago and I'm so very happy with it. It's absolute freedom and bliss and Linux brought the fun of computing back again. I'm not going back to Windows anymore.
I'm a normal gamer I don't use my PC for much really just gaming and basic tasks What do you use your system for that the freedom is that noticeable? If I want to be real the (windows spys on you) is not something that makes people want to change an os that have been used to and even grew up with so Linux needs to be literally better at normal and daily tasks to make people want to change Of course I don't like giving my data to Microsoft but if I'm going to experience problems on Linux that I never had on windows that wouldn't work
@@thewatcher6933 I'm also a gamer like you and I have Steam and Lutris accounts. I can play most of the games that I used to play with Linux, except for some that are probably made specifically for Windows platform only like the World of Tanks. In my honest opinion though, it's not probably because of any technical issue but an attempt by MS to monopolize the PC operating system by preventing the PC users from migrating to Linux OS. And making some games Windows playable only is one of the most effective ways. Other than that minor inconvenience, I have no issue at all with Linux OS. Linux has software repositories that have more than 60,000 free apps that you can download and install anytime you like. And those apps are 100% compatible, are as good, and some are even better alternatives than those offered by Windows that are not even free. And if you really have to install and use applications that were originally made for Windows, you simply have to use the WINE, WINE Tricks, and PlayOnLinux. You can also customize the Desktop to make it look like MacOS, Classic Windows (Millennium, XP, Win 7), or the modern Windows 11, or make it look like something unique only to Linux but with more functionality. There are so many good reasons why you should use Linux but keeping your data safe alone is a good enough reason. If your data falls into the wrong hands, you can get into trouble.
@@wongsanggar It does fine enough for now. But in 2025, you're going to have to change operating systems. Probably again in 2028 or so. And as you approach those years, every update to your computer will make it run slower and slower. That isn't just 'what computers do', that's planned obsolescence that utilizes Windows updates as its crux. And as those new versions come out, more and more data is being taken from you. This isn't just something that affects you, it affects everyone, as you're giving all your information, compromising your privacy more and more by the year, to a company that happily sells that data to third parties - including political ones, that will happily use it to manipulate people as consumers and voters. It's all rather dystopian. I don't encourage people to move off of Linux because I think Linux is cool and people should agree with me. I encourage them because we pretty much live in hell, and removing Windows from your computer is probably the biggest and easiest way you can do something about it as one person.
@rexsarus1154 Because we're all telling you: We've never had to use the terminal. Everything can be done through the GUI these days. And, correction: You'll have to spend a few hours solving a problem that you simply couldn't solve on Windows. I've brought Windows users onto Linux and helped them get games going that simply weren't working before.
@@bruno10505 Their reasoning was really stupid, as it worked perfectly fine before with wine, but now they made it impossible to run even with wine and virtual machines because of "hackers" whatever the fuck that means. I still have no clue how wine and hackers are related
As a music producer, the first software I installed on this distro was FL Studio as I need it for work. Installation was a breeze with Wine, no errors, recognized my audio drivers, but a few seconds after opening it the DAW just kept hanging in almost every single mouse click. I also read in several forums most plugins don't work properly. For this reason alone I went back to Windows, can't afford to lose my FL Studio. Good luck with any other DAW that doesn't have Linux support natively. So at least for music producers, there is a reason why Windows or macOS is better unless the DAW has native Linux version, and the most popular DAWs don't.
@@InnerHacking i didnt see anything about you using both of the systems, so i assumed you hard switched to linux and then back? idk lol i didnt sleep for 30h
@@InnerHacking but yeah, as i see it now, the linux is good for games, better than it ever has been, and windows is good for work... even though, if windows 12 will be even worse than windows 11, i bet more of the people just will never update from 10 or just switch to linux, which might have perfect support of everything in a couple of years... just because a lot of entusiasts will be attracted by the Steam Deck alone
@@divinehatred6021 I'm not interested in gaming on linux all that much. I also used many distros over the years (still remember the hassle of connecting my 56k modem at the time and making the drivers work... that's how long ago I tried linux) and I always keep getting the same problems with them when trying my favorite programs. This distribution doesn't cut it for me, maybe there's some other who works well with my DAW but so far I don't have any solid justification to completely ditch Windows just because of the programs I use, which is what I'm looking for. Mac is also not an option.
As soon as Linux can get to the point where it can play ALL games, I will be switching. Until then, I'm stuck on Windows 10 for many games that refuse to play on any Linux distro. Pretty much any game with Anti cheat is a bust.
Exactly this. Acting like Linux is better for gaming is downright delusional because it's simply not true. Every single game is made to work on Windows. A massive amount of those games either won't work on Linux or require unnecessary tinkering and most importantly knowledge on what to do and how to do it to make them work if at all possible on a completely different operating system. I get it though. I hate windows just as much as the next guy. But I have tried Linux before and it just didn't work out. There was always one unexpected problem after another. It didn't recognize peripherals, couldn't control my RGBs, games wouldn't launch or they crashed, 3rd party software support, and so on. But it was fast and light I'll give it that. A joy to use otherwise. I just couldn't make it do what I needed. So I'm back in Windows until you can ACTUALLY game on Linux without going through a thousand hoops to make stuff work.
@@Thunderhawk51 I had issues with periphrials not working properly as well and the hoops to get them working are very scarce or non existent. Not to mention even the more advanced distros are still very command prompty. Im sure knowing all those commands make some mega nerds feel special but I just want to hit play on my game and have everything work and no version of Linux does that.
Ive always liked the way linux looked and how lite weight it is, this video was so well made and convincing and the distro looks beautiful and u made it look so easy to understand, i recently reinstalled windows 11 and notice it being really slow, i think i might just give this a try! Thanks
I haven't switched to Linux full time, but I have had in dual boot for quite a while now. A lot of games works surprisingly well. And whenever I want to play a newer game, I always test it in Linux also. Plus there are some benefits to Linux gaming. Less RAM/VRAM usage, less stutters, emulating ray tracing, emulated ReFlex, the FSR2 mod working more easily on more games.
Linux uses more VRAM due to proton and other compatibility layers. My GPU has 24Gb of vram and I can see about 1gb+ more usage under Linux vs Windows. So if you have a 8gb GPU and want to play vram heavy AAA games, avoid Linux. Otherwise the difference is not that big of a deal.
yeah no one is buying that lol. if that was the you would think linux would be trying to sue for the use of there code and all but that doesn't seem to be the case i wonder way i know it open source and all so i guess that is way but still just because of that it makes mac and windows version actually mac and window and not linux because they changed the code to suit their needs and is no longer linux but something else.
There is no owner for linux. It is free to instal, copy, and to modify to your own liking or to create new os yourself on linux. Ever gas station in the world uses linux. windows is too heavy to run and too buggy so almost everything but our home and office pc's run on linux lol.
@@hornantuutti5157 i guess i would have to choke that up to use error then. because i have never had a problem with windows doing what needs to be done. though i can understand if you only got one or two system that need to be automated you use something else but i wouldn't call it linux though because once you start changing code it is no longer linux it is what ever you made it.
@@userunknown1030 >if that was the you would think linux would be trying to sue for the use of there code and all but that doesn't seem to be the case 1: Linux is open-source. Anyone can modify it (make their own distros). 2: No one owns Linux. There is not a company behind it, thus there is no way of suing someone for using it. 3: The rest of your message is, sadly, almost incomprehensible; I could not decipher anything beyond what was quoted. Please utilise proper punctuation.
@@Ed.07 yeah its the fact their open source that they don't do it. that would be a losing battle. what i was saying is that linux is just basically dos hyped up for no reason. people keep saying oh linux is used here and over their. i said cool but once you change the code it is no longer linux as you just pointed out.
I've been looking at Linux for a while now, but never ended up pulling the trigger. This video convinced me to do so. General computer usage already feels so much better. Custom function layers work without super fancy workarounds, the general browsing experience is faster and oh my god, the customisation. Couldn't be happier. I'm yet to dig into gaming, but if you are correct, I might never go back. Edit: the only thing that remains to be seen is if I can turn my university assignments in properly as they only accept office documents, but WPS office seems like it can solve this problem.
I'm a longtime Linux user who kept begrudgingly dual-booting Windows because I still spent quite a bit of time gaming. Somewhere in the middle of last year, after some Windows shenanigans that really pushed my patience, I finally decided I was going to spend the next year trying to play all my games on Linux. I knew the situation was pretty good these days, but I was honestly stunned by just HOW good the situation actually is. I have not had a single reason, not even once, to boot back into Windows since then. I'm not going to claim I didn't have a few issues here and there, but I can also attest to the fact that some things are actually easier and work better on Linux, because some of the tools available have just become so great. Some older games even ran better out of the box for me on Linux. It's so comfy being able to do everything I love right from my Linux desktop. I'm really happy I made the jump, I only regret not doing it earlier.
@@EvoraGT430 the thing about running things on wine with good FPS is your card having Vulkan support, other than that i can say that either something is wrong or you should report a bug to WineHQ.
@@TheZettaze my technical instructor of my class couldn't even get it to work. Windows has made it super hard for itself to be removed without Master Chief and the Doomslayer to kill off the rest.
My only holdout is Fortnite, which I can just play on console instead. I've gotten so sick of Windows and it's crap. 11 was the final straw. Also shoutout to Valve for releasing the Steam Deck, they're the real MVP.
Not only does this video presents how great garuda is... like informative its amazing! BUT ALSO, the flow of the video.. the voiceover, editing, music / ambience just amazed me :) You've earned a subscribe!!
this video is probably the most important video that Linux newbie should watch, you mentioned pretty much everything what was important, every single detail and you were very clear without saying too much, personally I wanna move over to Linux soon, new SteamOS 3.0 got me very interested because of the support and the fact that games just work, just like that, person that never used Linux can just install and play anything, I was also afraid of the Terminal but nowadays it's actually not that useful anymore, you can do more with it but 99% of the stuff can be done outside of it now just like on Windows if not even easier because Windows will not allow you to do some stuff without tinkering in PowerShell or Registry, also the fact that there's literally no bloatware, it's heaven for RAM and CPU, and of course the user because we have more freedom
You want to learn using the Terminal its the best tool for every case. If you make a mistake with config or anything else and the system is crash at boot you can revert changes by using terminal. Like my case when i watend mount another m2ssd i made a bad mistake and my linux is crashed at start but with terminal i can just revert my changes and the system is good again. (Does matter what u do once the lifetime u need to touch the terminal on Linux so dont be afraid from it.)
@@DeteCT0R when I first installed Linux, it was Linux Mint btw, I used Terminal for installing some stuff, personally I'm used to installing everything from the internet and later on I started using built-in tool that does that for me, but for more complex stuff I never really used Terminal just yet, but yeah, nowadays Linux is very easy to understand OS and I think that's really nice because more people can use it, especially people like me that are coming from Windows, I will probably try learning Terminal once I will fully move to Linux, for now I'm gonna just keep experimenting with it, and I'm not sure what distro would be the best for me yet, but I'm interested to try Debian 11 because it has same UI as Steam Deck and it looks kinda like Windows
bro what? he is leaving out so much stuff. lack of linux drivers, lack of software support, formatting issues, ironically wine rarely just works. the mentality of the os is different aswell, windows is made for morons that need to be guided with every step. linux expects you to know what you are doing (depending on the distro). troubleshooting also gets significantly harder.
@@permanentlybored195 Morons? Or people who dont have all day spend on troubleshooting to run program or game.. Bigger moron is one who is whiling to go on path where you need more troubleshooting when there are better and easier opinions
Windows 8 was my reason for switching to Linux, but that lasted for a couple years because drawing tablets were kind of limited and a lot of software wasn't available for Linux. Sure there are Windows emulators, but I never could get those to work properly. Was tired of the hassle. However, I get a lot of old computers and wipe them, then I put Linux on before giving them away to people who could use a computer for school or whatever, always used mint or peppermint for really old ones, might have to give this distro a try, thanks
I've heard drawing tablets do have problems on Linux. Can't really say much about it but I do have a drawing tablet that works out of the box. Huion tablet. I think some DEs also give you settings for some tablets in the settings app.
I am a student and I have recently been working with Raspberry Pi OS and it got me pretty hooked up, even though I just scratched the surface of it. Finding out about Garuda, thanks to you, makes me wants to try it out as well and possibly move from Windows, but since I never worked with Linux in depth and having little knowledge of it, I cannot make the switch yet. Though I must say Garuda definitelly looks like an OS I'd love to delve into and experiment with it. But until I finish my college, I don't think I can try it out just yet, as I also don't really have the time to do more research about it. I was thinking of setting up a dual boot, but I'll be honest, my drives are also filled to the neck with games I like to play during my free time - I have a pretty big Steam library. I was also thinking of adding more storage to my computer - that is when I get the money for it and when that happens, I'll definitelly give Garuda a try. On top of that I just love the style of the OS itself, it looks absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing about this.
The learning curve isn't steep. There's a new way of installing things, which is like an app store instead of finding software in your browser. You don't have separate drives and drive letters. One big mistake I think most people make is thinking that the root / is like C:/ and you can just put stuff on it, when everything you are likely to ever muck with is actually in /home/. Other than that, there's not a ton to learn that's crucial. What you can do is try the live iso and play around in there, see how you like the workflow. I'm also happy to answer questions and help you out if you need it in real time.
Unless you absolutely need windows, take the plunge. If you haven't gone into CMD or PowerShell much, then you probably won't touch it much in linux either. CLI is a beast in linux and allows you to do so much changing. M$DOS isn't used anymore but i like to joke M$ Denial of Service. lol. They deny you the services you truly strive for, even in their newer Kernels.
Awesome shit bro! Literally such a insanely good video, I'll show it to all my friends :) One note tho: I used garuda dragonized during the last months/year myself and experienced some issues with it, but I believe this is because kde doesn't work that well with nvidia...? It has to do with my nvidia drivers 100%, because garuda ran well on my no-dedicated-gpu laptop.
For those looking to configure Garuda to look like windows 10 (as I was and as the video shows). I recommend the following UA-cam video "Garuda Linux - From Ugly To Beautiful | Look & Feel Customization". It may be helpful to include a link to the video in the description if you can get away with it. As I am certain a lot of windows users looking to switch would like to keep the windows look and feel at least at first. Or, if you made a follow-up video showing how you made the customizations that are present in the video, I think a lot of people could also appreciate that. Anyways thanks for the info about Garuda regardless
Greetings! Just a question, if I may...for Steam and GOG Lutris works just great, from what I can tell. Yet, how does it work if I'd like to install some ultra-retro games from my CDs/DVDs, especially those ones that came out as bundles of collections of various games?
CDs and DVDs and other removable devices are mounted into the file system - so for instance, it will be in /mnt/cd (rather than its own drive). The computer treats it as if it were just another file on your system. Lutris can then install it from setup.exe via wine like normal, and there are often specific installers written by people for the DVDs etc. to ensure all the prerequisites and options are set up properly.
@@ComradeFerret Most people don't have cd's or dvd anymore. If they have games from them they are backed up as iso' which of course can be mounted in linux. Many of these use DRM protection even wine and Lutris doesn't play nice with and you have to use no DRM patches to play them on windows but many wont work on Linux. It's best to keep the games on the platform they were designed to run on. Linux gaming is not grown up yet by a long shot.
I’ve tried Linux from time to time. My second PC has Garuda installed on it. About 30% of my games library won’t work at all, about another 30% works, but with compromises, usually down to driver issues with GFX hardware not working as well or in some cases at all. Those are just rough numbers. That’s said, if I spend time I can fix some of those on a game by game basis. But that’s the issue, I have precious little,gaming time and want to spend it all gaming, not fixing games. I can see the day I move to Linux coming, but it’s not now.
that's the issue with linux. and usually with the linux "philosophy." you're spending so much time messing around with configurations that messing around with configurations becomes the main use case for linux. lol.
@@androth1502 That is what it feels like. No doubting it's easier now than 20 years ago when I first tried it. Much easier. For gamers the popularity of Steam Deck means more games are now built with Linux in mind (Arch Linux) from the ground up. But with 8 hours a week free time, spending so much of that messing about with configs and looking for home brew drivers that may or may not work. Reading long forum posts about how to get around this or that issue. None of that appeals to me. I do something very similar in my actual job - so doing it in my leisure time is not something I'm happy to do.
That's this issue with Linux in general. It's not supported, so you can't just install and play. You have to be well versed in command line changes, config files, and the awkward Linux filesystem layout to even BEGIN to make a game work. The fact that things just DON'T work when installed is a problem. This is why NOBODY in my family uses Linux. Even a Mac for that matter. Those systems are not supported by 98% of the programs out there. And for good reason.
I started migrating to Linux once Microsoft announced they were ending Windows 7 support. I've been learning it slowly, but I'm already at a point where I can say that the only reason Windows seemed easy was that it was the only thing I had experience with before now. And when Windows 10 was a disaster I've never seen run well anywhere it's installed, Windows 11 is a literal threat to freedom of computing globally, and Windows 12 wants to install a personal FBI agent on your hardware to spy and manipulate everything you do, I finally decided to take the plunge and rather learn a new system from the start than learn the same but infinitely worse system again.
Great video. It's amazing to have more and more people moving on to Linux, because that improves even more the situation for us on it and the quality of stuff that comes to it, even eventually forcing some companies to bring their stuff to it. Sadly, wasn't enough for me, so I have to stick to a stupid dual boot because of Rainbow Six Siege and RedM. Both just can't really work on Linux. R6 Siege because Ubisoft BLATANTLY BLOCKED LINUX from the game with BattleEye (although they already support Linux, and the game performance on it is great - but they block all online features on it) and RedM because their launcher can't access another program in execution through DXVK. So for now, I have to stick to this crappy situation and a stupid Windows version until things get a bit better :)
@morganpike7612 it's improving a lot every day, but there are some companies that just don't want it to happen, which is absurd, but it is what it is. Even anticheat are supported, but the approach is ridiculous. They *gave the choice of allowing it on Linux to the developer*. This is bullshit. There should be no choice in that. Blocking users from a specific OS should be a crime. That goes against freedom and is completely non-sense.
@morganpike7612gaming is usually great unless the game has a crazy anti-cheat (which you probably don't want running on your computer anyways, e.g. riot vanguard), or the developers explicitly decided to prevent the game from running on Linux.
@morganpike7612 yeah, just pointing it out. but there really are very little games that don't work on linux at all, and a lot of games run fine, at least in my experience. it depends on what ur playing tho. pretty much everything on steam works great. stuff off steam u prob can get working but might not be as easy or seamless.
I installed garuda on my shitty laptop like a year ago and I'm pretty happy with the distro. Some day I'll switch my main pc too but funny anticheat people want to throw hands. Funny thing is I actually broke my garuda install some time ago but I didn't realize it because the os just kept running normally.
Hey thank you so much for sharing this easy step by step guide, I’ve been a Linux user for about a year now, currently I use Linux mint on my laptop but I intend to save money for a gaming pc and I really wanted to use a good Linux distro for gaming but wasn’t really sure which would be the easiest to use and this one you’ve shown looks amazing and pretty easy to setup and use.
Ah yes. Secure Boot. Aka the "we're not allowed to install it unless our corporate overlords approve" setting. Good intentions, but excludes a few valuable troubleshooting & recovery programs. Aka Give up some liberty in exchange for security.
Also, if you have two drives, you can just change priority in the bios to make it boot into the drive you want.. and if that doesn't work -- you can just unplug your old drive until you get it setup.. You don't have to wipe it; and I wouldn't until you get your linux up and running for a few months.
What a cool Video. I switched to Linux (Pop! OS) just over a year ago and have not regretted it since. The most remarkable thing for me is, how helpful the community (mostly) is.
I want to switch to Linux but Iam worried about h/w compatibility. My spec's: 13700k, asus z790 prime wifi mb, gigabyte 4080, 4tb gen 4 nvme, 2 tb gen 3 nvme. I was thinking of Zorin 17 but im open to anything that will work. use case: gaming, video and photo editing. Iam also teaching 2 young grandchildren so if i have to do too much trouble shooting Iam afraid they will become disinterested. Thank for any advice you could offer.
You will be fine, I would try pop os or nobara as they come with versions that have Nvidia driver pre installed and are generally pretty stable. Your system isn't anything crazy so there should be no problems.
I've made the switch to Linux earlier this year and rarely ever wanted to return to Windows. While gaming is a big part of my PC use, I arguably use Photoshop and FL Studio both more. It's been a bit of a hassle, but I'm glad to have my Wine and Bottles support :)
I've got a new build I'm doing with an I-7 950 cpu on an Asus rampage 3 black edition with 24G or triple channel ram and 2 TB of mechanical drives. Will give Garuda a shot as an OS. Love the way you de-stressed the process of installing a non windows os. Excellent video.
I love linux, I've used for work and programming for years, but when it comes to games, it's always been hell for me. Things have progressed quite a bit, proton is incredible, and I'm really happy to with my corelec gaming boxes and stuff. But when it comes to actual PC games, things just never work properly. Recently tried playing Ni no Kun Wrath of the White Witch on my Ubuntu 22.04 using Steam + ProtonGE. Game works fine, but there's a horrible white tint over it, like gamma is cranked to 11, and nothing I tried fixes it. I have an RTX 2060 on my laptop, tried different commands, configs, driver versions, open source, propertary, nothing. Gave up, rebooted to Windows (god bless dual boot), worked flawlessly instantly. I hope one day I can get off Windows for games, but today is not the day, not even close.
God its just so much faster. I still have a VM with a windows install just in case, but im gonna check out the apps you listed. Great vid, scorch.exe was tyoed a lot on my childhood keyboard, 100 true about Arch, and proton and wine are truly amazing now. If anyone is on the fence, switching to linux is easiser then ever and its all become very intuitive.🎉
Gamepass is a scam dude. Better to own the game than rent it. One second the game is on gamepass, the next it's just gone. If you buy it, you have it. That's the way it should be.
@@Totalwar09 sure just casually buy the game online on a cloud platform where it can already just be ripped away like steam. at least with game pass you get all the games in a single monthly fee. it's not ideal, and i don't use gamepass, but let people use the solutions that work for them. dont judge. the point of linux is you can use what works for you. and it just happens to be that what works for this guy is windows and gamepass.
idk about battleeye but valorant's anti-cheat I believe wasn't working as many other windows-only kernel-level anti-cheats. Honestly, playing modern corpo stuff games (blizzard's, riot's, etc.) is always going to be hard on linux. There's always a trade. Sometimes it's for the better tho (?.
EAC usually works just fine. BattleEye is often problematic. If a game has kernel-level anti-cheat it's probably not going to work. but to fair, I would recommend you stay the hell away from those games on Windows as well.
steam has EAC and BattlEye runtimes for Proton, although for rainbow six siege and probably a few other games, you just cant play multiplayer cause of a simple fix on Ubi's end.
as a student of computer systems and networks, i absolutly love linux, especially kali distro ( if you know what i mean ;). ), but i feel that after trying this one it's gonna be my new favorite. edit : you should've made the music louder, we could still hear you.
Steam Deck is my 1st Linux PC... and you know what they say - 1st impression is the most important. Can Linux replace Windows ? Well um... *tries to change system language from English to the one I am using*.... nope. It is locked in SteamOS. It can probably be done by some terminal command / registry hack but.... something like this should be easy. Linux is great, but it has so many "small things" that should be easy and intuitive to do.... but somehow they are not. Like for example bricking the system by installing an app from the repository. Something like this should not be possible. I am not a beginner and I am a an experienced user, but the point is - I am a user. And linux so far seems to be system made by devs.... for devs and not for your average Joe. That is the issue here. If linux will ever replace Windows - then it needs to be what android has become for mobile phones. Modified so hard that it is considered an entirely new "idiot proof" system. And I really do hope that it will happen as I have not moved from W10 to W11 and Windows 12 on the horizon is looking even worse than 11.
Steam OS is really not a very good example. Ironically, it's the "idiot proof" system you're looking for, along with Android, both of which are locked down pretty badly. Changing language in KDE Plasma is as easy as two clicks. And I promise it won't brick your system. The only times you're likely to brick your system are: 1. You don't know what you're doing and try to like, chroot your root directory or something. 2. Install just whatever from the AUR without checking what people are saying about it, and whether it requires weird dependency versions. In both these cases, snapper un-bricks your system in seconds, with, again, two clicks. Linux is very much for the average joe, and indeed, as long as you can get over the hump of "/ is not C:\", then the more you let it be for the average joe, the more reliable it is.
Yeah, and complementing what he said here, Steam OS is an immutable-distro, meaning it can't be broken by system packages, instead you use Flatpak for installing an app/package you want. If you don't know what I just said here, just know that immutable Linux systems are the exact perfect solution for "idiot proof" you are seeking.
I have attempted to use Linux several times as a full time gaming setup, but it is still not there quite yet, for wider support. I have a Steam deck and love it and wanted to make it work for my System, but here are the issues I run into that I hope to be resolved someday soon, - ANTICHEAT - ( not supported by all games on Linux yet) NVIDIA (LOL - works mostly but still some issues with driver support - AMD is way better here - INTEL ARC - NO WAY) , HDR Support - if you want or play with HDR in games , movies, etc - Linux is not ready , Third party peripheral software ( I use JBL wireless headset - requires software - Linux Not supported) , Dolby Atmos - use Dolby Atmos in windows - sound is awesome and a BIG part of gaming - you are missing out if you don't invest in it. Gaming is more than just visuals, its the full immersion. I have played a lot on Linux, and love it, but for MOST mainstream gamers, its still not quite ready yet. However with Steam deck and continuing push with Linux and fixing these issue, I'm hoping in the next few years most if not all will be cleaned up.
For anticheat and online games, it may be worth considering running windows through a virtual machine. You’ll have to hijack your gpu to pass it through for performance, but it’s a solid alternative to dual booting
@@Fiftyblessings Have you actually done this? I have and its a pain in the ass, works better with AMD - Again Nvidia is not FUN here , with just one GPU, better to have 2 , and then this is some serious undertaking , its not for the average gamer, and this statement also completely negates the LINUX is good for gaming statement. If it is really good, then this step is not necessary. Unfortunetly we are not there yet for LINUX, however its massively improved, and really leaped forward thanks to Steamdeck and increase interest and progress. I think one day, it could be a REAL viable solution
the reason i still use windows on my new laptop is because not all software i use is available for linux, at least it hasnt been for a long time.. in general pc software is always considered able to run on windows first edit; software i use is mainly fl studio, but a lot of plugins etc as far as i knew are not supported for linux, even for some hardware like audio interfaces it used to be harder to find the right drivers for linux while on windows those things get installed automatically
I've always used Windows for gaming and I also use Nvidia Instant Replay for recording clips. I play a lot of modded games like Arma 3, Stalker Anomaly, and other games like Squad, Baldurs gate 3, Ready or Not, Tarkov, Hunt Showdown and usually a few cracked games too. But I've also always been attracted to Linux, the possibility to have a light and minimal OS with no shitty background processes that eat up to 30% of your RAM. No shitty surveillance, no broken Windows Updates. How would I find myself if I went to Linux? Unable to play these games? I mean, I saw that you can play them with a few tweaks, but would I be able to play them like I normally do on windows? Would I have problems saving clips with nvidia shadowplay? Would I have problems with the shitton of mods that Arma 3 requires? Would my performances be better?
Mods aren't an issue, nor are cracks. Modding platforms (like MO2) and cracks, in my experience, work in wine without any fuss. For specific games, look for them on ProtonDB - ie www.protondb.com/app/107410 . It will tell you how well the game works, and what tweaks different people have needed to get it working the way they want to on their build. Platinum means it works unanimously out of the box, gold means it may have troubles on some systems that can be solved, and silver means it generally needs some tweaking to work at all - though tweaks are never more complicated than installing certain winetricks (which Lutris can handle for you) or pasting in a command line argument. Looks like someone made a replacement for Nvidia Shadowplay specifically, if what you're looking for is a screen recorder that runs off your GPU: git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-gtk/about/ I believe Arma 3 just uses Steam Workshop for its mods? If that's the case, then while I don't play that game in specific, my Workshop mods for Workers & Resources (which is thusfar my shakiest game; the music gets funny unless you run the Windows 7 version) all work perfectly fine. Performance varies game to game, person to person. I personally found a huge performance increase when I switched in most of my titles. Perhaps more importantly, your performance will never decrease on account of planned obsolescence in the form of Windows updates.
Let me know how it goes. I have tried to switch to linux 3 times over the last 12 years, and each time people will yell how easy and seamless it has become. But each time I encountered a very steep learning curve I just couldn't be bothered with. I just don't want to see a terminal, ever.
@@msct6080 You are unlikely to have to use one. Honestly the #1 help for getting onto Linux, getting over that curve of "this is a new system and I feel like my grandma opening up Internet Explorer" is having someone to answer your questions and make sure you don't make a couple basic mistakes, like trying to copy or install things to root. I'm happy to do that.
@@msct6080 Good news: You don't have to. Even as someone who now enjoys using the terminal (after saying the same thing you are now, for years lol) I still don't actually use it for anything game-related. It just isn't a thing. Lutris, wine, and Steam are all GUI stuff.
the ending statement was on point, i could feel your anger, anger is what motivated me to ditch microsoft and im buying a pinetop pro or a thinkpad or something i can put linux on and a pixel 3 or 4 to put linux on (edited after stanb poionted out how slow pinephones are)
I'm thinking of moving to a Linux phone, I just don't really know what direction to go with it. I just want something stable that can make calls and use my dumb proprietary chat apps, with the longest battery life possible.
ikr my samsung a21 has 3 gb of ram and samsung still managed to make it magically slower over time, even after a factory reset it is nigh useless and i dont want to put a custom rom, the pinephone is cheap and you can install many versions of linux on it and it also doubles as a dockable computer@@Skelterbane69
as a garuda dragonized gamer user i recommend it wholeheartedly as it does anything windows can but doesnt steal your info or force updates, the only thing you lose is shitty free games with anticheat oh noes
@rexsarus1154 Yes, there's a Linux version of MO2 on GitHub that I use. If it isn't in the repo (I can't remember) I can help you with installing it. One of the only times you still need the terminal is when working with GitHub, but it's two lines to copy and paste.
The issue with Linux still is that you can't play specific standalone games like Project Reality (Arma 2 for potato PC lol) and Warno, and in addition, they run terribly on Wine or Win10/11 VMs. Can't use certain proprietary software like Adobe photoshop (and no, Gimp sucks, just admit it). But truth be said, Linux has come a looooooong way. I wish I could soon switch to it and say goodbye to Windows for once and for all.
Thank you for making this video. It was the one which convinced me in large part to finally migrate to Linux from Windows since I always had skepticism towards it because of games in the past. I was shocked at how many games work on Linux with minimal headaches... pretty much everything I play works through Lutris (since I don't play games with bullshit kernel-level anti-cheat and stuff like that). I chose Mint over Garuda, but at the end of the day it's all just about moving away from Microsoft isn't it? People mock Linux users for being evangelists but you won a convert with me. :)
This man sounds like Todd Howard, it just works. At the end of the video if it doesn't work go on the forms and figure out how it's supposed to work. So it doesn't work a % of the time. I'm all for Linux but not lying to ppl.
Running a windows app on Linux is not like using a emulator(the way windows run Linux apps) it's more like a translator on the go. It have negligible resource consumption than compared to an emulator taking up 2GB of ram to just run WhatsApp.
@@ComradeFerret why do you paste lgbt over an os? It's so random and unprofessional. I am not transphobic, you just made me uncomfortable by inserting something gender related. In some way that is wrong on your end because you're basically saying trans is better than every other gender. Not cool
@@Spectrulight Yeah, that makes you transphobic. Doubt you would have cared if it were a cis woman. Trans isn't a gender, and having representation of it doesn't do anything bad to you - unless you're a transphobe.
can it run star citizen ? no , can it run F1 23 ? no , just because windows has the most marketshare, but great video and i hope linux gets the best of windows .
I have a few things to say about this. First is a question, have you ever used a steam deck or steam os. Second is the fact that Linux isnt just about gaming, so to have an entire community working together to do something it was never intended to is straight up incredible. It's the whiners that can't appreciate all the work. No one likes whiners. If all you do is wine (haha funny joke) then stick with your baby toy (very slow, much like crawling) known as windows which just works and let the people who enjoy it do just that.
@@appsaucetech i think the one whining here is you mate, i'm using linux for work, macOS (because why not) and windows (just to play games) and i'm spitting the fact that it can't run most of the games, that's just a fact , and no, i dont use steam deck or anything related to steam or any other platform , i hate that.
I completely agree with you on the fact that it can't run all games, I was just mentioning that its pretty incredible it can run any at all. But you are wrong in the sense that it can't run most games, I'd say its more like a few. There are some that can't run but thats due to the anticheats running a kernel level of windows, something that simply can't be emulated or translated using the current version of wine/proton. I also understand why you see me as whining (I kinda was lol) it just sounded like you were a little misinformed on how many games it can run I guess no offense. @@theawesomerb2807
Interesting video. I've given Linux a chance, and the only reason I haven't (and can't) switch over is I do remote work and IT has told me only Windows or Mac works for security reasons, Linux OS's cannot be used at all. I'm probably going to just use windows for work (and the rare game that doesn't work on Linux).
It is admittedly weird that they say you have to use Windows for security reasons, when I've never met anyone who suggests that Linux isn't immensely more secure. Cysec folks generally run Linux themselves for their jobs. Most vulnerability concerns are in Windows, from attackers running Linux. Not a criticism or saying you're lying or anything, just something that's lived rent free in my head since I read your comment and I felt the urge to bring up lol I wonder if it's because of the potential for user error in an improperly configured Linux environment, and they can't be bothered configuring it.
@@ComradeFerret I think it's either that or something else. Either way it's only really a problem for me and the ten other people who requested in, so it's not really a burning issue for them lol.
@@ComradeFerret Its probably more simple than that. Some boss that isn't tech savvy sees he cant install the regular antivirus software he usually uses, OR he just saw a video on facebook about how hackers USE linux and took that to mean that they "hack" other linux users or something dumb like that.
Update: to my previous comment So I went ahead and installed it and I'm in love there's so many features it's overwhelming lol! And it looks so nice, I can't go back to windows cause I would find it too simple and boring, I love tinkering around it makes me feel like the good old days, everything works perfect it's my first time using Linux and I already have a good understanding of how things works, already got some windows applications running with wine 🍷 perfectly, got all my applications I had on my windows OS now I need to try some games but ik they will work well because of steam and proton for the deck, for those of who isn't sure I say go ahead and give it a try you won't be disappointed
I use kubuntu btw Moved recently, have win10 in dualboot just in case but never actually used it since I moved to linux, everything just works: gaming (steam and emu), drawing, video editing and 3d modeling Well, maybe because I already was into FOSS so just changing OS and running some software through wine isnt problem for me, so I can understand that switching to linux is not that morally (and maybe technically) simple, but everyone at least should try it
Hello, nice video but I have a question. I've been wanting to change to linux so I went ahead and downloaded fedora 38, my issue is when I game it looks much worse than win11 even though the settings and the framerate is the same , I was playing baldur's gate 3, do you perhaps know why? my gpu is rx 5600 xt. Im gonna try Garuda today, I hope it works well.
@@ComradeFerret I mean it looks much worse in graphics, as if I'm looking at an og game then going to windows and playing the remaster. I don't know what's that, I'm using an AMD GPU rx 5600 xt
@@justjk2452 It's graphical software. Without seeing your problem I couldn't say for sure, but you may want to have a look into it. I've never used Fedora, and don't know anyone who uses anything based on Red Hat, so I couldn't tell you how to set it up or what to look into. If you're intent on giving Garuda a shot, though, let me know how it works out.
@@ComradeFerret well uhh I'm trying to download grauda kde but everytime it says isohybrid something and when I try to boot into it nothing happen, and it has too partitions can u help me with that please?
Riot Vanguard is a new one I haven't heard of. I know you're joking, but, give it a little and it'll probably go the way of Easy Anticheat, which is now Linux-compatible as of earlier this year.
While I appreciate your video I disagree. I'm stuck duel booting because while Linux is getting very good it's not as good as Windows, not yet. Theres a few cases where Linux outperforms Windows for gaming but theres not many. It's a shame because as a desktop enviroment Linux is outstanding and far superior to Windows.
There's lots of videos that show that Linux does outperform Windows these days for gaming, mainly on account of Windows being horribly bloated. I wasn't able to have those settings I have on ESO until I made the jump, for example - much less have them maxed out and running OBS at the same time.
Yes, in my experience performance isn't QUITE on par with Windows, but it's often relatively close. However, I think the fact that you can just use Linux and enjoy all of the upsides of doing that far outweigh having to deal with Windows for slightly enhanced performance. Just my two cents ofc.
🤔if you make windows 11 vs Garuda benchmark video testing all aaa games of 2023 i might start running it on one of my spare ssd but until then i will wait im rooting for linux thou just not ready for the move just yet
Am using Garuda as an IT Senior, Game Dev, Gamer and Streamer. I had some issues at the beginning since I use a very huge variety of programs, but I mostly got rid of them only unity engine sucks on Wayland, you have to start it always on Vulkan. And for some reason I can install the unreal engine. Can't find any working workarounds. My system was also very unstable at the beginning, after I upgraded& updated everything including the kernel, it finally became stable.
Once Win7 went EOL i switched to Linux. I'm finally home. And on Elder Scrolls Online i noticed a big performance boost (15-20% higher FPS). Microsoft will lose this segment as well over time as they did with servers.
i tried both pop and endevour last month, spent 2 days trying to figure out why's there tearing in the desktop (vsync issue i think), tried all i could from tutorials to reinstalling a previous version of the nvidia driver, then went back to windows . . . :`(
@ComradeFerret tried both with the same result, tested garuda today with the same res, so im pretty sure it's the nvidia drivers, gonna try again later when i have the time (already sat up my dev env on windows again ;=;)
@@KanaanGM It must be, I've had troubles with Arch-based stuff and an older Nvidia card before. (750 Ti). Manjaro oddly didn't present an issue, nor did Ubuntu-based distros, so you may have better luck with that if updating the proprietary drivers (make sure you've got those) doesn't work.
@@ComradeFerret interesting, my card is relatively new (2080), i've noticed that it only happens when i Install the drivers. so maybe installing an older version of the driver may solve it, but will do it later. thanks for the advice :D
@@KanaanGM Wayland issues should actually be mostly resolved these days, even on Nvidia. I have a laptop on the side with an RTX 2060 with the latest stable driver (535.86.05) on latest stable GNOME (44.2) and kernel 6.5.7 and I have zero tearing issues, ever (including on previous versions obviously). What desktop environment are you on? You're sure you're using the proprietary driver, right? Nouveau unfortunately isn't adequate anymore for newer generation Nvidia cards (although hopefully we'll see some change to this in the coming years thanks to work being done making NVK usable).
The only reason I haven't switched yet is for compatibility purposes, I love linux though and as an owner of a steam deck I can safely say the minute linux is able to run everything I use on windows I will be switching.
The only big downside is that it's very hard to install proper driver for Nvidia. My 1070 Linux driver don't allow Fan control and I constantly get Black flickering during gaming.
It would be a lot easier to recommend this channel if you didn't have a North Korean wallpaper and other symbols of oppression all over your PC. I don't know if it's supposed to be ironic but talking about the freedom that Linux offers while opening up an image of the soviet hammer and sicle just doesn't work.
I might switch to Linux one day but the feeling of me having Linux and people going to question me why I use it is dawning on me. I just run virtual machines to test out operating systems, not to destroy them or what people do with virtual machines. The fun of Linux for me is testing all of the cool distros and how they are special, I even downloaded Pop!_os on a trash computer (that still is trash it took like a hour to install) and it was fun to find out how to install it.
Good time to brush up on all the awful things Windows is doing. For example, as of a few days ago, Windows 11 now backs up your personal files to OneDrive by default - unprompted.
I've switched to Linux and on my machine ( laptop gtx 1650) games run much much better than on Windows. I tried Fedora, PopOs, Kubuntu and now I settled with Linux Mint as it has better performance.
I watched this video twice. I will be switching to Linux for sure and Garuda looks really charming. I was thinking of using Linux Mint since I'm familiar with it but now maybe ill use Garuda.
Wow amazing and entertaining video, thank you! I am still using Windows 11 and so far it is working OKish but with some small problems here and there (aside from their behind the curtains telemetry). If I consider moving to Linux out of curiosity and because Garuda is looking amazing etc., there are things I want to ask firstly: 1. I have an HDR monitor and I moved from W10 to W11 because of the HDR functionality and settings W11 provide (AutoHDR that works great, Windows HDR Calibration app, DisplayHDR test etc.), so do you know how is the HDR experience in this Garuda Linux? In W11 I had problems with taking screenshots while HDR was ON (they were overexposed), but now there is a workaround fix which is an option in the Snipping tool app, that lets you take screenshots with "HDR color correction" applied. There are some issues with Photoshop and some other programs that look awful when HDR is ON and they are not reproducing the correct colors. Will it be better in Garuda Linux from that point of view? Is everything HDR related going to work in Linux? 2. In my free time I play only older games and one of them is Apex Legends, but since it is using anti-cheat, will I have problems on Garuda Linux playing Apex online (through Steam) with my friends? Also how is the game-modding doing (*like the good old Skyrim Nexus mod days), will I have problems with those kind of stuff working at all in Garuda? 3. Aside from gaming, I am using Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, ArtRage, also XPpen software for my drawing tablet - so will all of this work as it should in Garuda Linux? 4. Also since I am a strange one and I am using Opera browser with several saved browser workspaces (named differently) with hundreds of opened and slept tabs (because I use them organized for my historical hobby-topics and such unfinished projects), will I have problems with using the same type of Opera functionality in Garuda Linux? 5. I am also using Kodi, Stremio and stream movies, will all of those work here too?
I very much enjoyed how you made your argument ^^ PS I arrived here cause I am looking into changing to linux, im not much of "evil corpo" "privacy conspiracy" guy but... at windows taking screenshots of what im doing even I draw the line...
I would prefer use a dual boot, due to compatibility issues with some games. In my opinion, devs always do games with Windows compatibility, so always that games are first available in Windows and some time later are available for Linux or they never come out and have to be emulated with Wine or another emulator, sometimes causing certain performance problems, among other problems that are a headache.
Your opinion is incorrect. Wine isn't an emulator, and in general, games run better on Linux than on Windows because Windows is a bloated mess with built-in planned obsolescence.
Moved to Endeavour this week. I tried multiple distros and this had the best performance out of the box. Being pretty much Arch with a few basic QoL makes it a winner for me. The only thing that bugs me is the name. It's great in English, but I'm not even going to start explaining the meaning to my natives.
I am intrigued now! And yeah, Endeavour's gonna be pretty snappy; it's about the least 'bloat' you can get while still being on Arch, without just installing Arch from scratch. I wouldn't call it new-user friendly, but once you've got the hang of Linux and feel that passion to make it your own system, Endeavour is awesome.
My first experience with Linux was with the Steam Deck, with Arch/SteamOS. I’ve since switched to Linux (Garuda) partly thanks to this video, and partly because Microsoft thinks it’s okay to implement spyware into Windows 11 (Look up the Windows Copilot Recall controversy) Haven’t looked back since.
You are the man I will definitely pass it on! Great video! Corporations and Governments are all overstepping their boundaries! We people need to check and balance em out!
I don't like setting people up with the idea they won't need to "learn" a new OS. Linux ABSOLUTELY requires tinkering at times, and this issue is made worse by recommending an arch based rolling release distro. I suggest Debian. Yes the packages are going to be more out of date, but the vast amount of information on the internet revolves around the ubuntu/debian space. We've all had something that didn't install right, or a package that we couldn't find. This gives a newbie the best chance of finding something to paste into the terminal to fix it. Plus I swear the debian wiki is literally wrote for babies, 9/10 very helpful and *current* information.
Yeah, I'm about ready to switch over permanently. I switched in 2017 (dual boot), but it just wasn't there yet for a primary gaming OS. It looks more than fine now. I used Manjaro then, but that won't be happening this time. I am debating over Garuda, EndeavorOS, or Nobara for a gaming rig, with light internet media consumption. I play almost entirely SP experiences too.
The best video I've seen for a good time. Liked and subscribed to the channel. Like your sarcasm. Nerd shit :)) Hope you keep this good work and I want to see your channel grow ! Love Garuda Linux !
The best thing about linux is that you can do whatever you want and no one can say anything to you, like not using Garuda's KDE theme haha. Nice vid tho.
The last time I tried Linux was Ubuntu in 2008 and it was too much console work for me. With Windows 11 and its bloatware being rammed down everyone's throats maybe it's time to give Linux another go.
I believe Linux is the future. Those companies wouldn't be able to control people forever. And I wish game developers would be more flexible to work with Linux..
as a long time Linux user that surpised me, i have too much problems with configuring wine for games that forced me to dual boot for gaming, but, now, i'm going to boot only Linux on my computer for ALL.
Thank you for the video! RIGHT NOW it's not much use to me... I've been fighting my PC for weeks, finally got things working decently, I'll stay on what I've got. For now. When it (windows 11) breaks? I'm glad to know I have an option - just finished writing a Garuda bootable USB, and it'll be my parachute when this thing goes into a crash-dive.
Was always interested in Linux, but the complexity of the OS always put me off. What about game development engines and design/editing programs ? Like Photoshop and Unity. Will it install those programs ? Will the GPU drivers work ? Sorry lots of questions I just want to make sure before I make the choice to move my operations. I refuse to go to 11 and need an alternative before it's too late.
CS6 runs under wine. Unity runs natively. GPU drivers and other necessary drivers are built into the kernel, with an exception: Nvidia GPUs use their own proprietary drivers, but most "out of the box" distros, including Garuda, will grab those for you; just make sure to install the OS with open source drivers first. It will then automatically install the proprietary ones when you boot for the first time.
@@ComradeFerret I made the transition. This is so much better than Windows. Takes a bit of getting used to. I'm going to try Bottles to see if I can't install PhotoShop if that doesn't work I'll try a virtual machine. Thank you ComradeFerret You Rock!!!!
Tried Ubuntu with Wine to run Path of Exile 2 years ago; performance was a disaster, had to switch back to Windows using some shady KMS verification. Will give this a try next time I need to reinstall OS.
Couldnt help but notice it said youre name was jesse on the install setup. Me too! Welp found out what os and video im going to follow. This one right here ^^^^
new generations learned freedom matters ...
Lets just be free we dont need the dumb attachment
Your video made me install Garuda. In my 20 years of using computers i never had so much fun as i am having now with Linux, and i have you to thank for it. I absolutely love tinkering with this system and i don't think i will return to Windows ever again. Thank you.
It only gets better op!
I'm building my first PC and want to get as far away from Microsoft as i can.
This is one of the best videos i've found on how to do this, super easy to follow and beginner oriented, entertaining, covers every question i had.
If i can get any of my friends to consider switching from windows, i'll send them here.
If only Anti-Cheat devs could give/afford some love for Linux too 😭
good news is Valorant is already giving eyes towards Linux, bad news is you would have to use a custom partial closed source kernel in order to run. (it's not even official, it's just a thought that some dev gave on a Valorant forum about Linux support)
and in the case of Easy Anticheat, they are full compatible with Wine/Proton, it's just a matter if the game devs want to opt in or out.
now the new EA games like FIFA are using a new anticheat which is not that friendly with Linux nor they care about it at all, and the only thing that can change that is Linux users complain with them (EA).
@@draftofspasiba2 if only that would be true lmfao, considering league the only game i play gets vanguard, im hoping i can somehowi nstall vanguard on unix file system
and on my own custom linux kernel
Do you really want to install a rootkit just to be able to play games? xD
@@TheDZHEX no but what choice do we have when the games we want to play require it
I started using Linux about a year ago and I'm so very happy with it. It's absolute freedom and bliss and Linux brought the fun of computing back again. I'm not going back to Windows anymore.
I'm a normal gamer
I don't use my PC for much really just gaming and basic tasks
What do you use your system for that the freedom is that noticeable?
If I want to be real the (windows spys on you) is not something that makes people want to change an os that have been used to and even grew up with so Linux needs to be literally better at normal and daily tasks to make people want to change
Of course I don't like giving my data to Microsoft but if I'm going to experience problems on Linux that I never had on windows that wouldn't work
@@thewatcher6933 I'm also a gamer like you and I have Steam and Lutris accounts. I can play most of the games that I used to play with Linux, except for some that are probably made specifically for Windows platform only like the World of Tanks. In my honest opinion though, it's not probably because of any technical issue but an attempt by MS to monopolize the PC operating system by preventing the PC users from migrating to Linux OS. And making some games Windows playable only is one of the most effective ways. Other than that minor inconvenience, I have no issue at all with Linux OS. Linux has software repositories that have more than 60,000 free apps that you can download and install anytime you like. And those apps are 100% compatible, are as good, and some are even better alternatives than those offered by Windows that are not even free. And if you really have to install and use applications that were originally made for Windows, you simply have to use the WINE, WINE Tricks, and PlayOnLinux. You can also customize the Desktop to make it look like MacOS, Classic Windows (Millennium, XP, Win 7), or the modern Windows 11, or make it look like something unique only to Linux but with more functionality. There are so many good reasons why you should use Linux but keeping your data safe alone is a good enough reason. If your data falls into the wrong hands, you can get into trouble.
"It's absolute freedom and bliss" - could you tell us more why? I just need casual and office use and I think windows does it fine enough
@@wongsanggar It does fine enough for now. But in 2025, you're going to have to change operating systems. Probably again in 2028 or so. And as you approach those years, every update to your computer will make it run slower and slower. That isn't just 'what computers do', that's planned obsolescence that utilizes Windows updates as its crux.
And as those new versions come out, more and more data is being taken from you. This isn't just something that affects you, it affects everyone, as you're giving all your information, compromising your privacy more and more by the year, to a company that happily sells that data to third parties - including political ones, that will happily use it to manipulate people as consumers and voters. It's all rather dystopian.
I don't encourage people to move off of Linux because I think Linux is cool and people should agree with me. I encourage them because we pretty much live in hell, and removing Windows from your computer is probably the biggest and easiest way you can do something about it as one person.
@rexsarus1154 Because we're all telling you: We've never had to use the terminal. Everything can be done through the GUI these days.
And, correction: You'll have to spend a few hours solving a problem that you simply couldn't solve on Windows. I've brought Windows users onto Linux and helped them get games going that simply weren't working before.
Windows has Fortnite, Linux don't.
Linux wins
i don't really care about Fortnite
the same thing is now with ROBLOX itself.
@@azunima Yeah, Roblox doesn't work on Linux anymore, Linux loses in this point
@@bruno10505 I just hope in the future, people start porting things to linux, which i doubt will happen neverless
@@bruno10505 Their reasoning was really stupid, as it worked perfectly fine before with wine, but now they made it impossible to run even with wine and virtual machines because of "hackers" whatever the fuck that means. I still have no clue how wine and hackers are related
@@user-ks1oh2wx6o Linux users represents too little amount of players, they just don't care
As a music producer, the first software I installed on this distro was FL Studio as I need it for work. Installation was a breeze with Wine, no errors, recognized my audio drivers, but a few seconds after opening it the DAW just kept hanging in almost every single mouse click. I also read in several forums most plugins don't work properly. For this reason alone I went back to Windows, can't afford to lose my FL Studio. Good luck with any other DAW that doesn't have Linux support natively. So at least for music producers, there is a reason why Windows or macOS is better unless the DAW has native Linux version, and the most popular DAWs don't.
you realise that you can do both systems, right?
@@divinehatred6021 What I realize is you didn't read my comment properly
@@InnerHacking i didnt see anything about you using both of the systems, so i assumed you hard switched to linux and then back? idk lol i didnt sleep for 30h
@@InnerHacking but yeah, as i see it now, the linux is good for games, better than it ever has been, and windows is good for work... even though, if windows 12 will be even worse than windows 11, i bet more of the people just will never update from 10 or just switch to linux, which might have perfect support of everything in a couple of years... just because a lot of entusiasts will be attracted by the Steam Deck alone
@@divinehatred6021 I'm not interested in gaming on linux all that much. I also used many distros over the years (still remember the hassle of connecting my 56k modem at the time and making the drivers work... that's how long ago I tried linux) and I always keep getting the same problems with them when trying my favorite programs. This distribution doesn't cut it for me, maybe there's some other who works well with my DAW but so far I don't have any solid justification to completely ditch Windows just because of the programs I use, which is what I'm looking for. Mac is also not an option.
As soon as Linux can get to the point where it can play ALL games, I will be switching. Until then, I'm stuck on Windows 10 for many games that refuse to play on any Linux distro. Pretty much any game with Anti cheat is a bust.
Exactly this. Acting like Linux is better for gaming is downright delusional because it's simply not true. Every single game is made to work on Windows. A massive amount of those games either won't work on Linux or require unnecessary tinkering and most importantly knowledge on what to do and how to do it to make them work if at all possible on a completely different operating system. I get it though. I hate windows just as much as the next guy. But I have tried Linux before and it just didn't work out. There was always one unexpected problem after another. It didn't recognize peripherals, couldn't control my RGBs, games wouldn't launch or they crashed, 3rd party software support, and so on. But it was fast and light I'll give it that. A joy to use otherwise. I just couldn't make it do what I needed. So I'm back in Windows until you can ACTUALLY game on Linux without going through a thousand hoops to make stuff work.
@@Thunderhawk51 I had issues with periphrials not working properly as well and the hoops to get them working are very scarce or non existent. Not to mention even the more advanced distros are still very command prompty. Im sure knowing all those commands make some mega nerds feel special but I just want to hit play on my game and have everything work and no version of Linux does that.
@@shperax Yeah, same here. Maybe one day.
Ive always liked the way linux looked and how lite weight it is, this video was so well made and convincing and the distro looks beautiful and u made it look so easy to understand, i recently reinstalled windows 11 and notice it being really slow, i think i might just give this a try! Thanks
Garuda is a wonderful distro, once you have gotten used to it should give the hyprland version a try 😊
The switch to Linux as a gamer is so easy now for people. Most of 80 percent of steam games and emulators run perfectly, even better.
I cant even get the right nvidia drivers to install everyone loves linux but i honestly hate it right now and sadly about to go back to windows 😢
The Nvidia driver issue is pretty well documented, unless you have an older card there should be no problem
I haven't switched to Linux full time, but I have had in dual boot for quite a while now. A lot of games works surprisingly well. And whenever I want to play a newer game, I always test it in Linux also.
Plus there are some benefits to Linux gaming. Less RAM/VRAM usage, less stutters, emulating ray tracing, emulated ReFlex, the FSR2 mod working more easily on more games.
Linux uses more VRAM due to proton and other compatibility layers. My GPU has 24Gb of vram and I can see about 1gb+ more usage under Linux vs Windows. So if you have a 8gb GPU and want to play vram heavy AAA games, avoid Linux. Otherwise the difference is not that big of a deal.
it cannot run rdr2 bro
linux is not for gaming
@@Gen-ZVerse skill issue
@@djramiofficial or OS issue?
@@antonioytm 3 of them. hardware issue
Linux is so great, that even microsoft has their own version of Linux. Also MacOSX, is built from a unix variant called BSD.
yeah no one is buying that lol. if that was the you would think linux would be trying to sue for the use of there code and all but that doesn't seem to be the case i wonder way i know it open source and all so i guess that is way but still just because of that it makes mac and windows version actually mac and window and not linux because they changed the code to suit their needs and is no longer linux but something else.
There is no owner for linux. It is free to instal, copy, and to modify to your own liking or to create new os yourself on linux.
Ever gas station in the world uses linux.
windows is too heavy to run and too buggy so almost everything but our home and office pc's run on linux lol.
@@hornantuutti5157 i guess i would have to choke that up to use error then. because i have never had a problem with windows doing what needs to be done. though i can understand if you only got one or two system that need to be automated you use something else but i wouldn't call it linux though because once you start changing code it is no longer linux it is what ever you made it.
@@userunknown1030
>if that was the you would think linux would be trying to sue for the use of there code and all but that doesn't seem to be the case
1: Linux is open-source. Anyone can modify it (make their own distros).
2: No one owns Linux. There is not a company behind it, thus there is no way of suing someone for using it.
3: The rest of your message is, sadly, almost incomprehensible; I could not decipher anything beyond what was quoted. Please utilise proper punctuation.
@@Ed.07 yeah its the fact their open source that they don't do it. that would be a losing battle. what i was saying is that linux is just basically dos hyped up for no reason. people keep saying oh linux is used here and over their. i said cool but once you change the code it is no longer linux as you just pointed out.
I've been looking at Linux for a while now, but never ended up pulling the trigger. This video convinced me to do so. General computer usage already feels so much better. Custom function layers work without super fancy workarounds, the general browsing experience is faster and oh my god, the customisation. Couldn't be happier. I'm yet to dig into gaming, but if you are correct, I might never go back.
Edit: the only thing that remains to be seen is if I can turn my university assignments in properly as they only accept office documents, but WPS office seems like it can solve this problem.
I'm a longtime Linux user who kept begrudgingly dual-booting Windows because I still spent quite a bit of time gaming. Somewhere in the middle of last year, after some Windows shenanigans that really pushed my patience, I finally decided I was going to spend the next year trying to play all my games on Linux. I knew the situation was pretty good these days, but I was honestly stunned by just HOW good the situation actually is. I have not had a single reason, not even once, to boot back into Windows since then. I'm not going to claim I didn't have a few issues here and there, but I can also attest to the fact that some things are actually easier and work better on Linux, because some of the tools available have just become so great. Some older games even ran better out of the box for me on Linux. It's so comfy being able to do everything I love right from my Linux desktop. I'm really happy I made the jump, I only regret not doing it earlier.
Most games run noticeably slower, in my experience.
@@EvoraGT430 it's 100+-5% generally speaking. some games run better some games run slower. idk how are games running slower for you.
@@EvoraGT430 the thing about running things on wine with good FPS is your card having Vulkan support, other than that i can say that either something is wrong or you should report a bug to WineHQ.
On scale of 1 to anonymous, how hard was it to make a dual boot system?
@@TheZettaze my technical instructor of my class couldn't even get it to work. Windows has made it super hard for itself to be removed without Master Chief and the Doomslayer to kill off the rest.
My only holdout is Fortnite, which I can just play on console instead. I've gotten so sick of Windows and it's crap. 11 was the final straw.
Also shoutout to Valve for releasing the Steam Deck, they're the real MVP.
Not only does this video presents how great garuda is... like informative its amazing! BUT ALSO, the flow of the video.. the voiceover, editing, music / ambience just amazed me :) You've earned a subscribe!!
Thank you!!
this video is probably the most important video that Linux newbie should watch, you mentioned pretty much everything what was important, every single detail and you were very clear without saying too much, personally I wanna move over to Linux soon, new SteamOS 3.0 got me very interested because of the support and the fact that games just work, just like that, person that never used Linux can just install and play anything, I was also afraid of the Terminal but nowadays it's actually not that useful anymore, you can do more with it but 99% of the stuff can be done outside of it now just like on Windows if not even easier because Windows will not allow you to do some stuff without tinkering in PowerShell or Registry, also the fact that there's literally no bloatware, it's heaven for RAM and CPU, and of course the user because we have more freedom
You want to learn using the Terminal its the best tool for every case. If you make a mistake with config or anything else and the system is crash at boot you can revert changes by using terminal. Like my case when i watend mount another m2ssd i made a bad mistake and my linux is crashed at start but with terminal i can just revert my changes and the system is good again. (Does matter what u do once the lifetime u need to touch the terminal on Linux so dont be afraid from it.)
@@DeteCT0R when I first installed Linux, it was Linux Mint btw, I used Terminal for installing some stuff, personally I'm used to installing everything from the internet and later on I started using built-in tool that does that for me, but for more complex stuff I never really used Terminal just yet, but yeah, nowadays Linux is very easy to understand OS and I think that's really nice because more people can use it, especially people like me that are coming from Windows, I will probably try learning Terminal once I will fully move to Linux, for now I'm gonna just keep experimenting with it, and I'm not sure what distro would be the best for me yet, but I'm interested to try Debian 11 because it has same UI as Steam Deck and it looks kinda like Windows
bro what? he is leaving out so much stuff. lack of linux drivers, lack of software support, formatting issues, ironically wine rarely just works. the mentality of the os is different aswell, windows is made for morons that need to be guided with every step. linux expects you to know what you are doing (depending on the distro). troubleshooting also gets significantly harder.
@@permanentlybored195 Morons? Or people who dont have all day spend on troubleshooting to run program or game..
Bigger moron is one who is whiling to go on path where you need more troubleshooting when there are better and easier opinions
Windows 8 was my reason for switching to Linux, but that lasted for a couple years because drawing tablets were kind of limited and a lot of software wasn't available for Linux. Sure there are Windows emulators, but I never could get those to work properly. Was tired of the hassle. However, I get a lot of old computers and wipe them, then I put Linux on before giving them away to people who could use a computer for school or whatever, always used mint or peppermint for really old ones, might have to give this distro a try, thanks
I've heard drawing tablets do have problems on Linux. Can't really say much about it but I do have a drawing tablet that works out of the box. Huion tablet. I think some DEs also give you settings for some tablets in the settings app.
You know, I've been considering switching to Linux for my next computer so I could avoid Windows 11. This has convinced me. Thanks!
Same. After all these years, Microsoft was the one to convince me by making their software simply too atrocious to tolerate anymore.
I am a student and I have recently been working with Raspberry Pi OS and it got me pretty hooked up, even though I just scratched the surface of it. Finding out about Garuda, thanks to you, makes me wants to try it out as well and possibly move from Windows, but since I never worked with Linux in depth and having little knowledge of it, I cannot make the switch yet. Though I must say Garuda definitelly looks like an OS I'd love to delve into and experiment with it. But until I finish my college, I don't think I can try it out just yet, as I also don't really have the time to do more research about it. I was thinking of setting up a dual boot, but I'll be honest, my drives are also filled to the neck with games I like to play during my free time - I have a pretty big Steam library. I was also thinking of adding more storage to my computer - that is when I get the money for it and when that happens, I'll definitelly give Garuda a try. On top of that I just love the style of the OS itself, it looks absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing about this.
The learning curve isn't steep. There's a new way of installing things, which is like an app store instead of finding software in your browser. You don't have separate drives and drive letters. One big mistake I think most people make is thinking that the root / is like C:/ and you can just put stuff on it, when everything you are likely to ever muck with is actually in /home/. Other than that, there's not a ton to learn that's crucial.
What you can do is try the live iso and play around in there, see how you like the workflow. I'm also happy to answer questions and help you out if you need it in real time.
Unless you absolutely need windows, take the plunge. If you haven't gone into CMD or PowerShell much, then you probably won't touch it much in linux either. CLI is a beast in linux and allows you to do so much changing. M$DOS isn't used anymore but i like to joke M$ Denial of Service. lol. They deny you the services you truly strive for, even in their newer Kernels.
Awesome shit bro! Literally such a insanely good video, I'll show it to all my friends :)
One note tho: I used garuda dragonized during the last months/year myself and experienced some issues with it, but I believe this is because kde doesn't work that well with nvidia...?
It has to do with my nvidia drivers 100%, because garuda ran well on my no-dedicated-gpu laptop.
Hell yeah man I actually switched earlier to Garuda. I just randomly stumbled upon this video. Gotta say it's snazzy and smooth.
For those looking to configure Garuda to look like windows 10 (as I was and as the video shows). I recommend the following UA-cam video "Garuda Linux - From Ugly To Beautiful | Look & Feel Customization".
It may be helpful to include a link to the video in the description if you can get away with it. As I am certain a lot of windows users looking to switch would like to keep the windows look and feel at least at first. Or, if you made a follow-up video showing how you made the customizations that are present in the video, I think a lot of people could also appreciate that. Anyways thanks for the info about Garuda regardless
Greetings!
Just a question, if I may...for Steam and GOG Lutris works just great, from what I can tell. Yet, how does it work if I'd like to install some ultra-retro games from my CDs/DVDs, especially those ones that came out as bundles of collections of various games?
CDs and DVDs and other removable devices are mounted into the file system - so for instance, it will be in /mnt/cd (rather than its own drive). The computer treats it as if it were just another file on your system.
Lutris can then install it from setup.exe via wine like normal, and there are often specific installers written by people for the DVDs etc. to ensure all the prerequisites and options are set up properly.
@@ComradeFerret Most people don't have cd's or dvd anymore. If they have games from them they are backed up as iso' which of course can be mounted in linux. Many of these use DRM protection even wine and Lutris doesn't play nice with and you have to use no DRM patches to play them on windows but many wont work on Linux. It's best to keep the games on the platform they were designed to run on. Linux gaming is not grown up yet by a long shot.
@@DivergentDroid No? Cracks work just fine, if you want to use them. Chances are, those cracks were written in Linux.
I’ve tried Linux from time to time. My second PC has Garuda installed on it. About 30% of my games library won’t work at all, about another 30% works, but with compromises, usually down to driver issues with GFX hardware not working as well or in some cases at all. Those are just rough numbers.
That’s said, if I spend time I can fix some of those on a game by game basis.
But that’s the issue, I have precious little,gaming time and want to spend it all gaming, not fixing games.
I can see the day I move to Linux coming, but it’s not now.
Skyrim bros know the grit makes it worth it
that's the issue with linux. and usually with the linux "philosophy." you're spending so much time messing around with configurations that messing around with configurations becomes the main use case for linux. lol.
@@androth1502 That is what it feels like. No doubting it's easier now than 20 years ago when I first tried it. Much easier. For gamers the popularity of Steam Deck means more games are now built with Linux in mind (Arch Linux) from the ground up. But with 8 hours a week free time, spending so much of that messing about with configs and looking for home brew drivers that may or may not work. Reading long forum posts about how to get around this or that issue.
None of that appeals to me. I do something very similar in my actual job - so doing it in my leisure time is not something I'm happy to do.
@@androth1502lol exactly 😂
That's this issue with Linux in general. It's not supported, so you can't just install and play. You have to be well versed in command line changes, config files, and the awkward Linux filesystem layout to even BEGIN to make a game work. The fact that things just DON'T work when installed is a problem. This is why NOBODY in my family uses Linux. Even a Mac for that matter. Those systems are not supported by 98% of the programs out there. And for good reason.
I started migrating to Linux once Microsoft announced they were ending Windows 7 support. I've been learning it slowly, but I'm already at a point where I can say that the only reason Windows seemed easy was that it was the only thing I had experience with before now.
And when Windows 10 was a disaster I've never seen run well anywhere it's installed, Windows 11 is a literal threat to freedom of computing globally, and Windows 12 wants to install a personal FBI agent on your hardware to spy and manipulate everything you do, I finally decided to take the plunge and rather learn a new system from the start than learn the same but infinitely worse system again.
Great video. It's amazing to have more and more people moving on to Linux, because that improves even more the situation for us on it and the quality of stuff that comes to it, even eventually forcing some companies to bring their stuff to it. Sadly, wasn't enough for me, so I have to stick to a stupid dual boot because of Rainbow Six Siege and RedM. Both just can't really work on Linux. R6 Siege because Ubisoft BLATANTLY BLOCKED LINUX from the game with BattleEye (although they already support Linux, and the game performance on it is great - but they block all online features on it) and RedM because their launcher can't access another program in execution through DXVK. So for now, I have to stick to this crappy situation and a stupid Windows version until things get a bit better :)
@morganpike7612 it's improving a lot every day, but there are some companies that just don't want it to happen, which is absurd, but it is what it is. Even anticheat are supported, but the approach is ridiculous. They *gave the choice of allowing it on Linux to the developer*. This is bullshit. There should be no choice in that. Blocking users from a specific OS should be a crime. That goes against freedom and is completely non-sense.
@morganpike7612gaming is usually great unless the game has a crazy anti-cheat (which you probably don't want running on your computer anyways, e.g. riot vanguard), or the developers explicitly decided to prevent the game from running on Linux.
@morganpike7612 yeah, just pointing it out. but there really are very little games that don't work on linux at all, and a lot of games run fine, at least in my experience.
it depends on what ur playing tho. pretty much everything on steam works great. stuff off steam u prob can get working but might not be as easy or seamless.
I installed garuda on my shitty laptop like a year ago and I'm pretty happy with the distro. Some day I'll switch my main pc too but funny anticheat people want to throw hands.
Funny thing is I actually broke my garuda install some time ago but I didn't realize it because the os just kept running normally.
Hey thank you so much for sharing this easy step by step guide, I’ve been a Linux user for about a year now, currently I use Linux mint on my laptop but I intend to save money for a gaming pc and I really wanted to use a good Linux distro for gaming but wasn’t really sure which would be the easiest to use and this one you’ve shown looks amazing and pretty easy to setup and use.
If anyones having trouble with actually booting from the drive, make sure secure boot is disabled in your bios
Ah yes. Secure Boot. Aka the "we're not allowed to install it unless our corporate overlords approve" setting.
Good intentions, but excludes a few valuable troubleshooting & recovery programs.
Aka Give up some liberty in exchange for security.
Also, if you have two drives, you can just change priority in the bios to make it boot into the drive you want.. and if that doesn't work -- you can just unplug your old drive until you get it setup.. You don't have to wipe it; and I wouldn't until you get your linux up and running for a few months.
What a cool Video. I switched to Linux (Pop! OS) just over a year ago and have not regretted it since.
The most remarkable thing for me is, how helpful the community (mostly) is.
I want to switch to Linux but Iam worried about h/w compatibility. My spec's: 13700k, asus z790 prime wifi mb, gigabyte 4080, 4tb gen 4 nvme, 2 tb gen 3 nvme. I was thinking of Zorin 17 but im open to anything that will work. use case: gaming, video and photo editing. Iam also teaching 2 young grandchildren so if i have to do too much trouble shooting Iam afraid they will become disinterested. Thank for any advice you could offer.
Test it with the live iso is the best advice I can give.
You will be fine, I would try pop os or nobara as they come with versions that have Nvidia driver pre installed and are generally pretty stable. Your system isn't anything crazy so there should be no problems.
I've made the switch to Linux earlier this year and rarely ever wanted to return to Windows. While gaming is a big part of my PC use, I arguably use Photoshop and FL Studio both more. It's been a bit of a hassle, but I'm glad to have my Wine and Bottles support :)
And then they go down the rabbit hole, and start installing WMs on Gentoo... XD
I've got a new build I'm doing with an I-7 950 cpu on an Asus rampage 3 black edition with 24G or triple channel ram and 2 TB of mechanical drives. Will give Garuda a shot as an OS. Love the way you de-stressed the process of installing a non windows os. Excellent video.
Developing games for linux is a pain in the a**.
I love linux, I've used for work and programming for years, but when it comes to games, it's always been hell for me. Things have progressed quite a bit, proton is incredible, and I'm really happy to with my corelec gaming boxes and stuff. But when it comes to actual PC games, things just never work properly.
Recently tried playing Ni no Kun Wrath of the White Witch on my Ubuntu 22.04 using Steam + ProtonGE. Game works fine, but there's a horrible white tint over it, like gamma is cranked to 11, and nothing I tried fixes it. I have an RTX 2060 on my laptop, tried different commands, configs, driver versions, open source, propertary, nothing.
Gave up, rebooted to Windows (god bless dual boot), worked flawlessly instantly.
I hope one day I can get off Windows for games, but today is not the day, not even close.
God its just so much faster. I still have a VM with a windows install just in case, but im gonna check out the apps you listed. Great vid, scorch.exe was tyoed a lot on my childhood keyboard, 100 true about Arch, and proton and wine are truly amazing now. If anyone is on the fence, switching to linux is easiser then ever and its all become very intuitive.🎉
The biggest problem is that you can’t use games pass on Linux
Gamepass is a scam dude.
Better to own the game than rent it. One second the game is on gamepass, the next it's just gone.
If you buy it, you have it. That's the way it should be.
@@Totalwar09 sure just casually buy the game online on a cloud platform where it can already just be ripped away like steam. at least with game pass you get all the games in a single monthly fee. it's not ideal, and i don't use gamepass, but let people use the solutions that work for them. dont judge. the point of linux is you can use what works for you. and it just happens to be that what works for this guy is windows and gamepass.
Game Pass is killing gaming...
hey this was a pretty good watch, but I thought easy anti-cheat and some other ones like battleeye don't support linux no?
idk about battleeye but valorant's anti-cheat I believe wasn't working as many other windows-only kernel-level anti-cheats. Honestly, playing modern corpo stuff games (blizzard's, riot's, etc.) is always going to be hard on linux. There's always a trade. Sometimes it's for the better tho (?.
Easy Anti-Cheat works as of earlier this year. I think BattleEye still has issues.
EAC usually works just fine. BattleEye is often problematic. If a game has kernel-level anti-cheat it's probably not going to work. but to fair, I would recommend you stay the hell away from those games on Windows as well.
steam has EAC and BattlEye runtimes for Proton, although for rainbow six siege and probably a few other games, you just cant play multiplayer cause of a simple fix on Ubi's end.
They both support it, it's just wether or not the developer wants it to
as a student of computer systems and networks, i absolutly love linux, especially kali distro ( if you know what i mean ;). ), but i feel that after trying this one it's gonna be my new favorite.
edit : you should've made the music louder, we could still hear you.
The classy thing to do would be not to draw attention to it 😳
@@ComradeFerret LOL i won't do it next time ahahah
Steam Deck is my 1st Linux PC... and you know what they say - 1st impression is the most important. Can Linux replace Windows ? Well um... *tries to change system language from English to the one I am using*.... nope. It is locked in SteamOS. It can probably be done by some terminal command / registry hack but.... something like this should be easy. Linux is great, but it has so many "small things" that should be easy and intuitive to do.... but somehow they are not. Like for example bricking the system by installing an app from the repository. Something like this should not be possible. I am not a beginner and I am a an experienced user, but the point is - I am a user. And linux so far seems to be system made by devs.... for devs and not for your average Joe. That is the issue here. If linux will ever replace Windows - then it needs to be what android has become for mobile phones. Modified so hard that it is considered an entirely new "idiot proof" system. And I really do hope that it will happen as I have not moved from W10 to W11 and Windows 12 on the horizon is looking even worse than 11.
Steam OS is really not a very good example. Ironically, it's the "idiot proof" system you're looking for, along with Android, both of which are locked down pretty badly.
Changing language in KDE Plasma is as easy as two clicks. And I promise it won't brick your system. The only times you're likely to brick your system are:
1. You don't know what you're doing and try to like, chroot your root directory or something.
2. Install just whatever from the AUR without checking what people are saying about it, and whether it requires weird dependency versions.
In both these cases, snapper un-bricks your system in seconds, with, again, two clicks.
Linux is very much for the average joe, and indeed, as long as you can get over the hump of "/ is not C:\", then the more you let it be for the average joe, the more reliable it is.
Yeah, and complementing what he said here, Steam OS is an immutable-distro, meaning it can't be broken by system packages, instead you use Flatpak for installing an app/package you want. If you don't know what I just said here, just know that immutable Linux systems are the exact perfect solution for "idiot proof" you are seeking.
I have attempted to use Linux several times as a full time gaming setup, but it is still not there quite yet, for wider support. I have a Steam deck and love it and wanted to make it work for my System, but here are the issues I run into that I hope to be resolved someday soon, - ANTICHEAT - ( not supported by all games on Linux yet) NVIDIA (LOL - works mostly but still some issues with driver support - AMD is way better here - INTEL ARC - NO WAY) , HDR Support - if you want or play with HDR in games , movies, etc - Linux is not ready , Third party peripheral software ( I use JBL wireless headset - requires software - Linux Not supported) , Dolby Atmos - use Dolby Atmos in windows - sound is awesome and a BIG part of gaming - you are missing out if you don't invest in it. Gaming is more than just visuals, its the full immersion. I have played a lot on Linux, and love it, but for MOST mainstream gamers, its still not quite ready yet. However with Steam deck and continuing push with Linux and fixing these issue, I'm hoping in the next few years most if not all will be cleaned up.
For anticheat and online games, it may be worth considering running windows through a virtual machine. You’ll have to hijack your gpu to pass it through for performance, but it’s a solid alternative to dual booting
@@Fiftyblessings Have you actually done this? I have and its a pain in the ass, works better with AMD - Again Nvidia is not FUN here , with just one GPU, better to have 2 , and then this is some serious undertaking , its not for the average gamer, and this statement also completely negates the LINUX is good for gaming statement. If it is really good, then this step is not necessary. Unfortunetly we are not there yet for LINUX, however its massively improved, and really leaped forward thanks to Steamdeck and increase interest and progress. I think one day, it could be a REAL viable solution
the reason i still use windows on my new laptop is because not all software i use is available for linux, at least it hasnt been for a long time.. in general pc software is always considered able to run on windows first
edit; software i use is mainly fl studio, but a lot of plugins etc as far as i knew are not supported for linux, even for some hardware like audio interfaces it used to be harder to find the right drivers for linux while on windows those things get installed automatically
I've always used Windows for gaming and I also use Nvidia Instant Replay for recording clips.
I play a lot of modded games like Arma 3, Stalker Anomaly, and other games like Squad, Baldurs gate 3, Ready or Not, Tarkov, Hunt Showdown and usually a few cracked games too.
But I've also always been attracted to Linux, the possibility to have a light and minimal OS with no shitty background processes that eat up to 30% of your RAM.
No shitty surveillance, no broken Windows Updates.
How would I find myself if I went to Linux? Unable to play these games?
I mean, I saw that you can play them with a few tweaks, but would I be able to play them like I normally do on windows?
Would I have problems saving clips with nvidia shadowplay?
Would I have problems with the shitton of mods that Arma 3 requires?
Would my performances be better?
Mods aren't an issue, nor are cracks. Modding platforms (like MO2) and cracks, in my experience, work in wine without any fuss.
For specific games, look for them on ProtonDB - ie www.protondb.com/app/107410 . It will tell you how well the game works, and what tweaks different people have needed to get it working the way they want to on their build. Platinum means it works unanimously out of the box, gold means it may have troubles on some systems that can be solved, and silver means it generally needs some tweaking to work at all - though tweaks are never more complicated than installing certain winetricks (which Lutris can handle for you) or pasting in a command line argument.
Looks like someone made a replacement for Nvidia Shadowplay specifically, if what you're looking for is a screen recorder that runs off your GPU: git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-gtk/about/
I believe Arma 3 just uses Steam Workshop for its mods? If that's the case, then while I don't play that game in specific, my Workshop mods for Workers & Resources (which is thusfar my shakiest game; the music gets funny unless you run the Windows 7 version) all work perfectly fine.
Performance varies game to game, person to person. I personally found a huge performance increase when I switched in most of my titles. Perhaps more importantly, your performance will never decrease on account of planned obsolescence in the form of Windows updates.
Let me know how it goes. I have tried to switch to linux 3 times over the last 12 years, and each time people will yell how easy and seamless it has become. But each time I encountered a very steep learning curve I just couldn't be bothered with. I just don't want to see a terminal, ever.
@@msct6080 You are unlikely to have to use one. Honestly the #1 help for getting onto Linux, getting over that curve of "this is a new system and I feel like my grandma opening up Internet Explorer" is having someone to answer your questions and make sure you don't make a couple basic mistakes, like trying to copy or install things to root. I'm happy to do that.
@@msct6080 Good news: You don't have to. Even as someone who now enjoys using the terminal (after saying the same thing you are now, for years lol) I still don't actually use it for anything game-related. It just isn't a thing. Lutris, wine, and Steam are all GUI stuff.
the ending statement was on point, i could feel your anger, anger is what motivated me to ditch microsoft and im buying a pinetop pro or a thinkpad or something i can put linux on and a pixel 3 or 4 to put linux on (edited after stanb poionted out how slow pinephones are)
I'm thinking of moving to a Linux phone, I just don't really know what direction to go with it. I just want something stable that can make calls and use my dumb proprietary chat apps, with the longest battery life possible.
Man, I'd love a linux phone.
Especially now that samsung is showing they're just as bad as apple.
@@Skelterbane69 Yeah. I'm on a Moto right now but I want to get onto something with real ethics
ikr my samsung a21 has 3 gb of ram and samsung still managed to make it magically slower over time, even after a factory reset it is nigh useless and i dont want to put a custom rom, the pinephone is cheap and you can install many versions of linux on it and it also doubles as a dockable computer@@Skelterbane69
@@Cmdrbzrd Yeah, that's why I haven't moved yet. They aren't ready, but I look forward to that changing.
as a garuda dragonized gamer user i recommend it wholeheartedly as it does anything windows can but doesnt steal your info or force updates, the only thing you lose is shitty free games with anticheat oh noes
Even EAC works as of a month or two ago.
@rexsarus1154 Yes, there's a Linux version of MO2 on GitHub that I use. If it isn't in the repo (I can't remember) I can help you with installing it. One of the only times you still need the terminal is when working with GitHub, but it's two lines to copy and paste.
The issue with Linux still is that you can't play specific standalone games like Project Reality (Arma 2 for potato PC lol) and Warno, and in addition, they run terribly on Wine or Win10/11 VMs. Can't use certain proprietary software like Adobe photoshop (and no, Gimp sucks, just admit it).
But truth be said, Linux has come a looooooong way. I wish I could soon switch to it and say goodbye to Windows for once and for all.
Thank you for making this video. It was the one which convinced me in large part to finally migrate to Linux from Windows since I always had skepticism towards it because of games in the past. I was shocked at how many games work on Linux with minimal headaches... pretty much everything I play works through Lutris (since I don't play games with bullshit kernel-level anti-cheat and stuff like that). I chose Mint over Garuda, but at the end of the day it's all just about moving away from Microsoft isn't it? People mock Linux users for being evangelists but you won a convert with me. :)
This man sounds like Todd Howard, it just works. At the end of the video if it doesn't work go on the forms and figure out how it's supposed to work. So it doesn't work a % of the time. I'm all for Linux but not lying to ppl.
Running a windows app on Linux is not like using a emulator(the way windows run Linux apps) it's more like a translator on the go.
It have negligible resource consumption than compared to an emulator taking up 2GB of ram to just run WhatsApp.
At 1:41 you made me never choose linux ever
Good. You aren't welcome here.
@@ComradeFerret why do you paste lgbt over an os? It's so random and unprofessional. I am not transphobic, you just made me uncomfortable by inserting something gender related. In some way that is wrong on your end because you're basically saying trans is better than every other gender. Not cool
@@Spectrulight Yeah, that makes you transphobic. Doubt you would have cared if it were a cis woman. Trans isn't a gender, and having representation of it doesn't do anything bad to you - unless you're a transphobe.
@@ComradeFerret why do you bring sexuality into online gaming video on oses?
@@Spectrulight he's a trans furry, what did you expect? he'd bring sexuality into everything. linux has nothing to do with his delusions.
can it run star citizen ? no , can it run F1 23 ? no , just because windows has the most marketshare, but great video and i hope linux gets the best of windows .
exactly bruh 😭the only games u will be able to play is old poopy fart games dawg
I have a few things to say about this. First is a question, have you ever used a steam deck or steam os. Second is the fact that Linux isnt just about gaming, so to have an entire community working together to do something it was never intended to is straight up incredible. It's the whiners that can't appreciate all the work. No one likes whiners. If all you do is wine (haha funny joke) then stick with your baby toy (very slow, much like crawling) known as windows which just works and let the people who enjoy it do just that.
@@appsaucetech i think the one whining here is you mate, i'm using linux for work, macOS (because why not) and windows (just to play games) and i'm spitting the fact that it can't run most of the games, that's just a fact , and no, i dont use steam deck or anything related to steam or any other platform , i hate that.
@@theawesomerb2807I use Linux (Ubuntu) for work, Windows for work and games too and I agree he's the one whining
I completely agree with you on the fact that it can't run all games, I was just mentioning that its pretty incredible it can run any at all. But you are wrong in the sense that it can't run most games, I'd say its more like a few. There are some that can't run but thats due to the anticheats running a kernel level of windows, something that simply can't be emulated or translated using the current version of wine/proton. I also understand why you see me as whining (I kinda was lol) it just sounded like you were a little misinformed on how many games it can run I guess no offense. @@theawesomerb2807
Interesting video. I've given Linux a chance, and the only reason I haven't (and can't) switch over is I do remote work and IT has told me only Windows or Mac works for security reasons, Linux OS's cannot be used at all.
I'm probably going to just use windows for work (and the rare game that doesn't work on Linux).
I love it when companies say, It's for security reasons. 🤣
Same company later crying that next Office 365 Zero day leaked customer information.
if you mess around with themes and icons you cam make your linux distro look almost identical to windows 10.
It is admittedly weird that they say you have to use Windows for security reasons, when I've never met anyone who suggests that Linux isn't immensely more secure. Cysec folks generally run Linux themselves for their jobs. Most vulnerability concerns are in Windows, from attackers running Linux.
Not a criticism or saying you're lying or anything, just something that's lived rent free in my head since I read your comment and I felt the urge to bring up lol
I wonder if it's because of the potential for user error in an improperly configured Linux environment, and they can't be bothered configuring it.
@@ComradeFerret I think it's either that or something else. Either way it's only really a problem for me and the ten other people who requested in, so it's not really a burning issue for them lol.
@@ComradeFerret Its probably more simple than that. Some boss that isn't tech savvy sees he cant install the regular antivirus software he usually uses, OR he just saw a video on facebook about how hackers USE linux and took that to mean that they "hack" other linux users or something dumb like that.
Update: to my previous comment
So I went ahead and installed it and I'm in love there's so many features it's overwhelming lol! And it looks so nice, I can't go back to windows cause I would find it too simple and boring, I love tinkering around it makes me feel like the good old days, everything works perfect it's my first time using Linux and I already have a good understanding of how things works, already got some windows applications running with wine 🍷 perfectly, got all my applications I had on my windows OS now I need to try some games but ik they will work well because of steam and proton for the deck, for those of who isn't sure I say go ahead and give it a try you won't be disappointed
i would love to try this, but not all apps are built for linux tho
A lot of them have linux alternatives
And the ones that aren't are easily run through wine
Glad to see someone spreading the good word. Each day we are one step closer to a windowless future.
I use kubuntu btw
Moved recently, have win10 in dualboot just in case but never actually used it since I moved to linux, everything just works: gaming (steam and emu), drawing, video editing and 3d modeling
Well, maybe because I already was into FOSS so just changing OS and running some software through wine isnt problem for me, so I can understand that switching to linux is not that morally (and maybe technically) simple, but everyone at least should try it
Hello, nice video but I have a question. I've been wanting to change to linux so I went ahead and downloaded fedora 38, my issue is when I game it looks much worse than win11 even though the settings and the framerate is the same , I was playing baldur's gate 3, do you perhaps know why? my gpu is rx 5600 xt. Im gonna try Garuda today, I hope it works well.
Worse in what fashion? It may be the shaders, especially if you're running Nvidia. Do you have vulkan/mesa installed?
@@ComradeFerret I mean it looks much worse in graphics, as if I'm looking at an og game then going to windows and playing the remaster. I don't know what's that, I'm using an AMD GPU rx 5600 xt
@@justjk2452 It's graphical software. Without seeing your problem I couldn't say for sure, but you may want to have a look into it.
I've never used Fedora, and don't know anyone who uses anything based on Red Hat, so I couldn't tell you how to set it up or what to look into. If you're intent on giving Garuda a shot, though, let me know how it works out.
@@ComradeFerret well uhh I'm trying to download grauda kde but everytime it says isohybrid something and when I try to boot into it nothing happen, and it has too partitions can u help me with that please?
@@justjk2452 What are you using to create the bootable drive? Rufus is Windows-only, grab Balena Etcher.
The only thing I miss is Valorant.
JK I don't like valorant lol.
Riot Vanguard is a new one I haven't heard of. I know you're joking, but, give it a little and it'll probably go the way of Easy Anticheat, which is now Linux-compatible as of earlier this year.
the music and the way you spoke gave me even more conviction, lol
I use Arch btw
While I appreciate your video I disagree. I'm stuck duel booting because while Linux is getting very good it's not as good as Windows, not yet. Theres a few cases where Linux outperforms Windows for gaming but theres not many. It's a shame because as a desktop enviroment Linux is outstanding and far superior to Windows.
There's lots of videos that show that Linux does outperform Windows these days for gaming, mainly on account of Windows being horribly bloated. I wasn't able to have those settings I have on ESO until I made the jump, for example - much less have them maxed out and running OBS at the same time.
Yes, in my experience performance isn't QUITE on par with Windows, but it's often relatively close. However, I think the fact that you can just use Linux and enjoy all of the upsides of doing that far outweigh having to deal with Windows for slightly enhanced performance. Just my two cents ofc.
I would say it’s better just there is less dev support because windows literally payed devs and companies back in the day for more market share
🤔if you make windows 11 vs Garuda benchmark video testing all aaa games of 2023 i might start running it on one of my spare ssd but until then i will wait im rooting for linux thou just not ready for the move just yet
Well playing games with anticheat... plz showcase that..
no need to be jealous man. linux is free, just make the switch.
Easy, stop installing kernel level malware on your systems, simple
Considering i avoid playing such games i fail to see a downside... Not everyone is addicted to toxic cesspool of "competitive" gaming
Real bro I just want to play destiny 2 and MC😭😭
Yeah, cant play Dragon Ball fighterz online, just offline
I can’t switch to linux because most of the games i play don’t run on it
It's only going uphill from here, hopefully in the future it'll keep improving :)
That would surprise me. Check them on ProtonDB, there aren't many games these days that don't run on Linux.
Am using Garuda as an IT Senior, Game Dev, Gamer and Streamer. I had some issues at the beginning since I use a very huge variety of programs, but I mostly got rid of them only unity engine sucks on Wayland, you have to start it always on Vulkan. And for some reason I can install the unreal engine. Can't find any working workarounds.
My system was also very unstable at the beginning, after I upgraded& updated everything including the kernel, it finally became stable.
Wayland has received some major updates under Nvidia just within the last few weeks, if that happens to be relevant to your situation.
Once Win7 went EOL i switched to Linux.
I'm finally home.
And on Elder Scrolls Online i noticed a big performance boost (15-20% higher FPS).
Microsoft will lose this segment as well over time as they did with servers.
same here
windows 12 will switch its kernel for a linux one, my prophecy.
i tried both pop and endevour last month, spent 2 days trying to figure out why's there tearing in the desktop (vsync issue i think), tried all i could from tutorials to reinstalling a previous version of the nvidia driver, then went back to windows . . . :`(
X11 or Wayland? Wayland has given folks tearing issues especially with Nvidia.
@ComradeFerret
tried both with the same result, tested garuda today with the same res, so im pretty sure it's the nvidia drivers, gonna try again later when i have the time (already sat up my dev env on windows again ;=;)
@@KanaanGM It must be, I've had troubles with Arch-based stuff and an older Nvidia card before. (750 Ti). Manjaro oddly didn't present an issue, nor did Ubuntu-based distros, so you may have better luck with that if updating the proprietary drivers (make sure you've got those) doesn't work.
@@ComradeFerret interesting, my card is relatively new (2080), i've noticed that it only happens when i Install the drivers.
so maybe installing an older version of the driver may solve it, but will do it later.
thanks for the advice :D
@@KanaanGM Wayland issues should actually be mostly resolved these days, even on Nvidia. I have a laptop on the side with an RTX 2060 with the latest stable driver (535.86.05) on latest stable GNOME (44.2) and kernel 6.5.7 and I have zero tearing issues, ever (including on previous versions obviously).
What desktop environment are you on?
You're sure you're using the proprietary driver, right? Nouveau unfortunately isn't adequate anymore for newer generation Nvidia cards (although hopefully we'll see some change to this in the coming years thanks to work being done making NVK usable).
The only reason I haven't switched yet is for compatibility purposes, I love linux though and as an owner of a steam deck I can safely say the minute linux is able to run everything I use on windows I will be switching.
The only big downside is that it's very hard to install proper driver for Nvidia. My 1070 Linux driver don't allow Fan control and I constantly get Black flickering during gaming.
Make sure you're using the latest proprietary driver (after install). And I'm looking at nvidia-settings right now, it definitely has fan control.
thank you, you convinced me to stay on windows 😊
especially comment section
I honestly fell in love with Fedora After trying them all for gaming Good video thought
It would be a lot easier to recommend this channel if you didn't have a North Korean wallpaper and other symbols of oppression all over your PC. I don't know if it's supposed to be ironic but talking about the freedom that Linux offers while opening up an image of the soviet hammer and sicle just doesn't work.
I might switch to Linux one day but the feeling of me having Linux and people going to question me why I use it is dawning on me. I just run virtual machines to test out operating systems, not to destroy them or what people do with virtual machines. The fun of Linux for me is testing all of the cool distros and how they are special, I even downloaded Pop!_os on a trash computer (that still is trash it took like a hour to install) and it was fun to find out how to install it.
Good time to brush up on all the awful things Windows is doing. For example, as of a few days ago, Windows 11 now backs up your personal files to OneDrive by default - unprompted.
@@ComradeFerret luckily I uninstalled onedrive because I don’t need it and I have local backups
I've switched to Linux and on my machine ( laptop gtx 1650) games run much much better than on Windows. I tried Fedora, PopOs, Kubuntu and now I settled with Linux Mint as it has better performance.
I watched this video twice. I will be switching to Linux for sure and Garuda looks really charming. I was thinking of using Linux Mint since I'm familiar with it but now maybe ill use Garuda.
Wow amazing and entertaining video, thank you! I am still using Windows 11 and so far it is working OKish but with some small problems here and there (aside from their behind the curtains telemetry). If I consider moving to Linux out of curiosity and because Garuda is looking amazing etc., there are things I want to ask firstly:
1. I have an HDR monitor and I moved from W10 to W11 because of the HDR functionality and settings W11 provide (AutoHDR that works great, Windows HDR Calibration app, DisplayHDR test etc.), so do you know how is the HDR experience in this Garuda Linux?
In W11 I had problems with taking screenshots while HDR was ON (they were overexposed), but now there is a workaround fix which is an option in the Snipping tool app, that lets you take screenshots with "HDR color correction" applied. There are some issues with Photoshop and some other programs that look awful when HDR is ON and they are not reproducing the correct colors. Will it be better in Garuda Linux from that point of view? Is everything HDR related going to work in Linux?
2. In my free time I play only older games and one of them is Apex Legends, but since it is using anti-cheat, will I have problems on Garuda Linux playing Apex online (through Steam) with my friends?
Also how is the game-modding doing (*like the good old Skyrim Nexus mod days), will I have problems with those kind of stuff working at all in Garuda?
3. Aside from gaming, I am using Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, ArtRage, also XPpen software for my drawing tablet - so will all of this work as it should in Garuda Linux?
4. Also since I am a strange one and I am using Opera browser with several saved browser workspaces (named differently) with hundreds of opened and slept tabs (because I use them organized for my historical hobby-topics and such unfinished projects), will I have problems with using the same type of Opera functionality in Garuda Linux?
5. I am also using Kodi, Stremio and stream movies, will all of those work here too?
I very much enjoyed how you made your argument ^^
PS I arrived here cause I am looking into changing to linux, im not much of "evil corpo" "privacy conspiracy" guy but... at windows taking screenshots of what im doing even I draw the line...
PTSD from "overly full desktop" count
VVV
I would prefer use a dual boot, due to compatibility issues with some games.
In my opinion, devs always do games with Windows compatibility, so always that games are first available in Windows and some time later are available for Linux or they never come out and have to be emulated with Wine or another emulator, sometimes causing certain performance problems, among other problems that are a headache.
Your opinion is incorrect. Wine isn't an emulator, and in general, games run better on Linux than on Windows because Windows is a bloated mess with built-in planned obsolescence.
Moved to Endeavour this week. I tried multiple distros and this had the best performance out of the box. Being pretty much Arch with a few basic QoL makes it a winner for me. The only thing that bugs me is the name. It's great in English, but I'm not even going to start explaining the meaning to my natives.
I am intrigued now!
And yeah, Endeavour's gonna be pretty snappy; it's about the least 'bloat' you can get while still being on Arch, without just installing Arch from scratch. I wouldn't call it new-user friendly, but once you've got the hang of Linux and feel that passion to make it your own system, Endeavour is awesome.
My first experience with Linux was with the Steam Deck, with Arch/SteamOS.
I’ve since switched to Linux (Garuda) partly thanks to this video, and partly because Microsoft thinks it’s okay to implement spyware into Windows 11 (Look up the Windows Copilot Recall controversy)
Haven’t looked back since.
Man its feels so good listing about Garuda Beacause it's made in India, Linux ❤❤❤❤
You are the man I will definitely pass it on! Great video! Corporations and Governments are all overstepping their boundaries! We people need to check and balance em out!
Wolfenstein 3d is a classic, it’s awesome to see you play that too mate! 😁 👍🏻
I don't like setting people up with the idea they won't need to "learn" a new OS. Linux ABSOLUTELY requires tinkering at times, and this issue is made worse by recommending an arch based rolling release distro.
I suggest Debian. Yes the packages are going to be more out of date, but the vast amount of information on the internet revolves around the ubuntu/debian space. We've all had something that didn't install right, or a package that we couldn't find. This gives a newbie the best chance of finding something to paste into the terminal to fix it. Plus I swear the debian wiki is literally wrote for babies, 9/10 very helpful and *current* information.
Yeah, I'm about ready to switch over permanently. I switched in 2017 (dual boot), but it just wasn't there yet for a primary gaming OS. It looks more than fine now. I used Manjaro then, but that won't be happening this time. I am debating over Garuda, EndeavorOS, or Nobara for a gaming rig, with light internet media consumption. I play almost entirely SP experiences too.
The best video I've seen for a good time. Liked and subscribed to the channel. Like your sarcasm. Nerd shit :))
Hope you keep this good work and I want to see your channel grow !
Love Garuda Linux !
"Linux made easy" is an oxymoron
ok you got me hooked I'll be formatting my pc by next month and try something else other than windows
The best thing about linux is that you can do whatever you want and no one can say anything to you, like not using Garuda's KDE theme haha. Nice vid tho.
your desktop environment looks sick man!
The last time I tried Linux was Ubuntu in 2008 and it was too much console work for me. With Windows 11 and its bloatware being rammed down everyone's throats maybe it's time to give Linux another go.
I tried it back then, too, and immediately uninstalled it as it didn't install a single driver and barely functioned. It's completely changed since.
Very cool video windows has been having nothing but issues and im over it i may switch over during the long weekend.
I believe Linux is the future. Those companies wouldn't be able to control people forever. And I wish game developers would be more flexible to work with Linux..
as a long time Linux user that surpised me, i have too much problems with configuring wine for games that forced me to dual boot for gaming, but, now, i'm going to boot only Linux on my computer for ALL.
Thank you for the video! RIGHT NOW it's not much use to me... I've been fighting my PC for weeks, finally got things working decently, I'll stay on what I've got. For now.
When it (windows 11) breaks? I'm glad to know I have an option - just finished writing a Garuda bootable USB, and it'll be my parachute when this thing goes into a crash-dive.
Was always interested in Linux, but the complexity of the OS always put me off. What about game development engines and design/editing programs ? Like Photoshop and Unity. Will it install those programs ? Will the GPU drivers work ? Sorry lots of questions I just want to make sure before I make the choice to move my operations. I refuse to go to 11 and need an alternative before it's too late.
Photoshop does not work on Linux.
CS6 runs under wine. Unity runs natively. GPU drivers and other necessary drivers are built into the kernel, with an exception: Nvidia GPUs use their own proprietary drivers, but most "out of the box" distros, including Garuda, will grab those for you; just make sure to install the OS with open source drivers first. It will then automatically install the proprietary ones when you boot for the first time.
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@@ComradeFerret I made the transition. This is so much better than Windows. Takes a bit of getting used to. I'm going to try Bottles to see if I can't install PhotoShop if that doesn't work I'll try a virtual machine. Thank you ComradeFerret You Rock!!!!
@@graphicnostalgiastudios I know folks have also had luck with a Lutris installer for CS6. Hit me up again if you need help with anything!
Tried Ubuntu with Wine to run Path of Exile 2 years ago; performance was a disaster, had to switch back to Windows using some shady KMS verification.
Will give this a try next time I need to reinstall OS.
Couldnt help but notice it said youre name was jesse on the install setup. Me too! Welp found out what os and video im going to follow. This one right here ^^^^