A Guide To Get Gaming On Linux!
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
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Chapters:
0:00 Why Linux Gaming?
2:10 Native Linux Games
3:18 Wine & Proton
4:03 Testing Conditions
5:38 Gaming on Flatpak
6:59 Wayland Gaming
8:10 Steam
8:41 Custom Wine/Proton
9:47 Epic Games & Heroic
10:51 Lutris
11:43 Bottles
13:11 Caveats
15:03 Environment Variables & Arguments
17:19 Outro - Věda a technologie
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ACHTUALLY 🤓 the "third-party launcher" for Morrowind (openMW) is not a separate launcher but instead a complete open source reimplementation of the game engine (similarly to DOOM ports like GZDoom). 👆🤓
It supports additional features like higher draw distances, proper font support, and Wayland (with features such as shaders and scripting support in nightly builds) 👆🤓
Morrowind Wayland
now thats wild
openMW Is honestly my goto recommendation for anyone playing it regardless of OS.
Likewise, I highly recommend OpenRCT2.
you can start openmw (after setting it up with esm files and all) within steam, adding a command ( /path/to/openmw %command% ) in that way it starts you openmw native binary (or flatpak if you're so inclined) instead of the old cranky exe that crashes thru proton. So you can track your playtime while running openmw
we love the helltaker
You know, while i myself don't pray to gabe, you gotta respect this. I still think 30% cut is a good chunk and that without Australia we would never get the good policy refunds, but my experience with valve is just GOLD.
My account got stolen and i texted their support and within 3 hours i got it back. Once i couldn't refund a game within 2 weeks and they still refunded it for me
And objectively their launcher is just better than the competition. With the good sales too as a cherry on top .
This is just so nice. Linux now is bigger than ever thanks to them . Pure respect . It went from 2 % of the desktop makret to 3.5. wich is still small but over 50% increase . thanks, Gabe
One of the many things I appreciate about your videos is they are so practical and show people how to better accomplish their daily needs in a better and more secure way.
This is a pretty awesome primer for getting into Linux gaming, great work! Once HDR support starts working reliably on Linux, I’m going to transition my dedicated gaming rig to Nobara.
Such a thorough yet simple explanation of everything, excellent work
heroic has instructions on how to get easy anticheat to work on their wiki lmfao
Still doesn't work but ok
@@oo--7714does it still still not work? 😢
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Pretty thorough, thanks!
Bottles is pretty great. Definitely easier to get set up for playing games that require dependencies than Wine. Between that and Steam+Proton, I've been able to do all of the gaming that I used to do on Windows.
I haven’t been able to get Bottles to work yet so I still use wine and proton
@@LilBitDistributist I never tried it I was using Linux Mint because Wine was fine, but I had the opposite situation with Fedora. Wine didn't work like I expected it to, so I gave Bottles a try and it worked perfectly. Easier to get some common dependencies installed too.
If I was setting up a new install at this point, I'd probably go with Bottles first.
@@LilBitDistributist Playing Diablo 4 using bottles in Fedora Silverblue 38.
@@ordinaryhuman5645makes me wonder what games you been playing. No game i play that came out within a 6 year time span support. Unless its singleplayer and even that is a hit or miss. Some games run better but many games run worse then windows. Ive tried nebora, mintos, pop os.
@@elitepauper7400 nebora
Great Video as always🔥🔥
Nice video, I been down this road and although I still have a few games under linux using lutris/steam I got lazy and opted for a gpu accelerated win VM for some troublesome games. Recently spun up a nobora VM and will start experimenting with that soon.
Let me know how that goes. I ran into some issues with it. Maybe I'll come back to it.
@@ldmedicityIts working well im happy with it, looking-glass was the game changer for me integrating it onto the linux desktop. I have spent a bit of time tuning the VM, the arch wiki was very helpful. Ready to go for the diablo 4 launch :)
Right now you can run most games right after os install + a short, guided setup with Garuda or Nobara. I still remember the pain of trying to launch almost anything on Mandrake 2010. Hours of troubleshooting just to realise it has kernel-level anti-cheat or requires some obscure tweaks that won't work with anything else. Bottles helped a lot, true, but it's nothing compared to having your distro ship with wine-GE. Heck, before Proton you could end up with dozens of bottles and STILL fail to launch a 5 years old game 😅
I have really been interested in linux for gaming but man...there is so many barriers to entry.
Ye i keep circling back and forth myself and test stuff on an old laptop with a gtx 960. (i try various distros but i want to find one thats plug and play and reliable, and so far most have weird issues that are solvable but its just so much grief for basic stuff.)
@@lindenreaper8683 for me, a game can be worth playing even if its on a bad platform, game companies can still make good games on bad platforms.
for example stalker series will be a hassle to set up on linux and i dont even know if its possible to add a few hundred mods over the game using linux. The community is very passionate about the game, making their own open source 64 bit engine, when the game was originally in 32bit and they are giving it away for free with the devs being ok with it too.
Its easy for you because you haven't found good games that aren't compatible with linux.
I play civ 5/6 type games on linux but most of my gaming is on dual boot windows
Gaming on Nobara almost 2 years now . I use an all amd top tier build and i dont play online games so its pretty plug and play for me with the occasional variable addition which i would do anyway to enable gamemode etc. so no issue there.Gaming on linux is amazing, apart from the obvious win of not having to use windows , you have more control over your games , heck you can even enable fsr on titles that dont support it. Linux is a way of life, simple as that.
Out of curiosity, which rendition of Nobara are you using? Gnome or KDE, Wayland or Xorg? I'm considering KDE Xorg with toggling compositor off (Alt+Shift+F12) since apparently "it just works," but I'm not sure if another combo works a bit better. Using an AMD CPU/AMD GPU rig.
@@savagej4y241 Hey , i have been using KDE+ wayland for over a year now. Xorg is a dead project now w/o any major development i see no reason in using it .
What would you recommend for intel?
@@fadark55 intel is well supported in linux for both cpu and gpu recently.
didn't Nobara get hit by xz utils bug? lol
I fucking _love_ flatpak steam, when glibc broke EAC on Arch, I was like "well, sucks to be those guys" and went back to playing Multiversus; So I was so disheartened to learn that it is allegedly incapable of having adequate sudo permissions to install SteamVR. This means if I wanna see how VR progression has come along, I have to install a separate instance of steam that isn't flatpaked, unless there's some weird udev permission thing I can resolve in flatseal.
or just use a distro that does not fuck up very basic system utilities like glibc or grub oy anything else. if you want to be on a rolling release then just use opensuse tumbleweed,plus it has yast+snapper(a tool that takes snapshots with btrfs automatically whenever you use the package manager)
@@sesei2149 Don't take this reply as me chewing you out for trying to help, I really do appreciate the suggestion, but I feel like I should explain myself: OpenSUSE does not make it clear what proprietary drivers you need to install for Nvidia in YaST, it just dumps a bunch of them on you and does not make it clear what the latest one for modern cards is. I have since RTFM'd and figured it out, but it really was annoying at first compared to "hey do you want Proprietary Nvidia or Nouveau?" Plus, it feels somewhat bloated and clunky to use in my experience, I spend more time uninstalling shit from tumbleweed that I could be using to install things I'm actually going to use, that's why I don't use Tumbleweed anymore and stick to EndeavourOS or Arch. Also, BTRFS still has file corruption bugs which I'm done dealing with, I mostly use ext4 just to be safe now.
I have distro hopped many times in my linux journey, trying everything from pop, to mint, to plain old ubuntu and the distros that have given me the least problems are inside of the Arch family (Manjaro is shit and doesn't count). I would be using Nobara instead of arch since that has just the right amount of apps I want, but it keeps breaking Nvidia repositories and runs more slowly than Arch does for me.
In the future, if I decide to go for a non-rolling release, it's going to be something like BlendOS or VanillaOS which containerizes rolling release distros anyway, meaning a glibc problem wouldn't get fixed regardless cause I'm gaming inside of a rolling release container at the end of the day.
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They should create a launcher using users configuration that works for each hardware. Where user will be able to put there configured dependencies and other users will be able to set the configuration of a game at the click of a button using those settings by other user .
That'd be awesome. Are you sure that that has not been made yet?
I was trying gaming on linux mint,but graphics werent smooth, and sometimes it just got broken, i needed to reinstall sustem. Tried fedora 37, regata os, and nothing was working fine, did you had similliar issue? Till i have installed garuda gaming kde, still gaming on x11 but its awesome now
If Wayland worked, I’d love to use it. No amount of features will outweigh the ridiculous stutter/tearing under Wayland. X11 smooth like butter on same hardware.
Amazing video sir and should i stop using Debian Distros or do i use fedora instead
If Debian is working without any problems, then there's not much point in switching, is there?
I only switched to Fedora because Elden Ring was crashy due to older kernel/drivers, and that switch helped. But Fedora has been more annoying to get things setup than Mint was (e.g. RenPy games were not running properly until I installed some extra packages that Mint apparently had out of the box).
Any distro works really, just pick the one you like unless you really need the latest and greatest kernel or something. I've been gaming on arch and fedora. Arch worked a bit better overall but with the frequent updates sometimes some game would break because of them.
@@Mammel248 thanks man
I am super curious how you got KDE working with nvidia and wayland, I have a 2060 and if I log into a wayland session on KDE my desktop get something like 2 fps...
You need to be using the most up to date version. Anything before 5.26 was unusable. Are you using a rolling release?
@@Trafotin I was using the KDE version of nobara, I switched to Garuda last night and it seems to work mostly ok :) just some flikkering on docks and some electron apps
@@Trafotin side question what vtuber software are you using on linux?
Like and subcribed . Well done
Gaming on Linux is amazing until you run into a game that uses EAC
*unless you run into a game that deliberately doesn't allow EAC on linux (eac has linux support but some devs don't allow it anyways 😉)
Until you run into a game that hasn't enabled EAC.... so I guess those games don't get your money.
Elden Ring uses EAC and it hasn't given me any problems
Funnily enough, it's actually the Windows 11 users that have been complaining more about EAC in the Elden Ring discussions on Steam. Apparently a recent update broke something for W11 users and you have to disable a new feature to get it working.
@Akabe Animations I knew there would be one smart ass that thinks their shit doesn't stink. Yes I realize this. Thanks captain obvious.
Cool guide.
13:33 Roblox still plans on supporting Wine in the future, it's just that they need to optimize their new client for native Windows first. They aren't necessarily afraid of linux users cheating.
They are afraid of Linux users freeing the simps with FOSS software. Like we once did with Emacs and many other platforms. The nerds of Eternal September send their Ai beasts in violation of the Metalogicon, such scigen tricks are a cheap immitation of the All-In-One. Many supply chains and lines of communication have been offline breached. If you see a distribution with ties to Californian data collectors, simply move along even if its just a single mod asking for your uname -a tell them to stick it up their -A and qq. Beggars are not given OPs, they get their cords cut.
I use linux for over 10 years i can say it has come a very long way
this should be followed up with a walkthrough on how to find the files and set it up...
just because i think that's a good thing - not many people who are unfamiliar with linux are gonna watch this video, install linux and attempt to just do it straight up..
Unfortunately, I can't provide a guide for every single game out there. I can only do what I've tested and it's different for you probably. Most games are pretty turnkey, but everything else is looks like hacking magic to normal people.
@@TrafotinI would still be beneficial if you could da a general gaming guide to linux (probably best with a typical use case like Fedora) with all the general things to look for and set up to get most stuff working. I know, that like you said these things can be pretty different from use to user but I think this could help a lot of people (including me). I hope you consider it :)
i've found i need to dual boot to windows to play like r6s or valorant, any big anti cheat wont work on linux
Interesting video, I didn't know that there were game stores other than Steam. I installed Heroic and had a look at it, though I'm not sure I want to pay for games that will only work if I get lucky with Wine. As for Wayland, Pipewire is great and I gather that's an offshoot of Wayland, so it seems like they're doing good work... unfortunately, it doesn't matter because none of the drivers nor window managers support it. Thus it's been up and coming for the past 20 years, and it'll most likely be up and coming for the next 20 years. Maybe they could try rebranding it, as one: naming after a town is Mass. was dumb, and two: at this point it stinks of failure. This way, they could present it as a new thing, that's already made amazing progress for a brand pnu project (Thus no need to worry that it's just going to be Vaporware till the turn of the next century.)
Anybody know if adaptive refresh work in Linux? The answer I get seems to be "no". I have an AMD RDNA2 GPU and a freesync premium 1440p display
Linux has only gotten more appealing for me, especially with windows 10s support ending in 2 years and me having no other real reason to upgrade my CPU.
I would argue it's a good reason if you're like me and your computer is nearing 9-10 years old, it's time to upgrade. Newer Intel chips have Bootguard and AMD has Pluton and built-in TPM (which works out of the box in most distros btw). Pluton doesn't work until kernel 6.4, but Bootguard works great. Older chips will not get proper security patches and stuff.
He's gonna need to upgrade his CPU too if he keeps thermal throttling like that :P
@@Trafotin
Oh i know but i m s o c h e a p l i k e . . Lol
My computer has a stroke when I try and use Wayland, any help? I have an rtx 3050 btw.
About native games with old deoendencies, couldn't they just ship dependencies with the game, like appimages do to a degree?
How do native games on linux work now, have they not worked out that problem still?
Has not been worked out. The reason Valve's Proton worked out so well because it does exactly this, but in Wine. Lots of games are basically abandonware and they are confined to their Wine prefixes.
Now you may think this is hard or anything but know that before valve got their magical hands into Linux getting anything working in wine was something else 🤣🤣 way harder and had to try variables that something's only worked for somebody else and not your hardware 😂 thank god proton and vulkan exist now 🙏🙏
Did i just watched you play Warframe awesome.🎉
Is there a good tutorial on how to get DbD to work with linux?
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 will give you the 32 bit libraries.
It's hard to consider wayland the future when it literally won't even boot on Fedora KDE with nvidia. I try it every time I upgrade and it's still broken
Kde(wayland) and Nvidia doesn't work that well. Gnome works better with Nvidia in wayland.
Hmm I need to go on some forums. Multi-player game companies need to learn that the client side anti-cheat is simply a courtesy to their game server, not a solution to preventing cheating. Cheat catching needs to be found server side
wait your cpu is a 100C at 40% usage? Crazy, overall good video.
the multiplayer it is also becase linux is like 1% of the player base but a massive % (if not more than the rest combine) of issue report so not a very wise utilisation of time for most dev
a month ago wayland is exaggeratedly plugged in kde to the point of not being able to use full screen xddd
My first experience with Linux was the steam deck, I’m now tryna move to Linux on my pc cuz I hate windows but god damn are normal processes like downloading programs or hoping that certain things work etc it’s a pain.. I’m here to learn but forums talk abt acronyms and codes and words I’ve never heard of b4 😭😭
That sounds more like a Steam problem. I've never had a good experience downloading stuff from Steam because I always felt like my device would get locked up, even on Windows.
I would like to see you play new world with the latest expansion
Can I play SuperTuxKart on Winblows?
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welp, I'm still trying to make heroic work for more than 2 hours before something crashes
Then after doing that, you try to do something else to your system and break it having to do it all again... or is that just me
Im still struggling to decide on a distro, I originally wanted it to be pop OS because apparently its beginner friendly and stable, "stable" lol. I ran into issues with popOS not picking up my primary monitor a lot and steam UI decides to just fade in and out causing it to be unusable. I want something that's beginner friendly, stable and gamer ready, any recommendations?
Ubuntu LTS. Stable, kernel updates, highly popular, and it's the only Linux officially supported by Steam (ik SteamOS too).
However it's not gamer ready, but gaming support is easy to install, like Lutris and Steam.
@@AD-xg2cs The only I can think of is Nobara linux
It is hit or miss. Some games work, some have even more fps than under Windows, some work with limitations and some don't work at all. If everything worked 100%, I would switch to Linux immediately. But when I see Conan Exiles stuttering like crazy and several X-Plane addons not working....no thanks.
Im forced to use zorin os cause i bought a 100 dollar laptop with an 11th gen i5 but it's locked with a bitkocker thing and i plugged it in my other laptop and it didn't work so idk if getting a new nvme ssd would work but zorin os isn't terrible but i pretend its a netbook on steroids i use bottles🙂
I was trying to play on linux but it just doesn't work even with some games that run natively on linux...
Native ports are made for ancient distros no one uses anymore. Unless it's based on Unity, fall back to the Windows version.
Xubuntu (or another ligth maybe Ubuntu budgie or Loc OS...???) + steam + Dota 2... Is something...
I run POP OS and my good steam games work. Older is better, Some need Proton. And you can get Sonic the Hedgehog or Tux Cart.
Lol loved the video up until the Nvidia bit muahaha sorry AMD over here! ;) great content! Wonderfully detailed, great video bud!
What is the best fine-tuned speech to text solution on Linux right now?
"Live captions", available as a flatpak, is pretty damn good. All done locally too.
@@notjustforhackers4252 I very much doubt that comes even close to whisper. I'm not even looking for standard whisper but for whisper that has been fine-tuned for different domains.
@@encapsulatio Why don't you try it before dismissing it? I very much doubt you're actually looking for a solution, just something to moan about. Excuse me for trying to help.
@@notjustforhackers4252 I am looking to transcribe some videos. What you recommended is real time transcription ONLY so I need to play the video to actually transcribe. That's why I said I'm looking for whisper based solution who is good for actual recorded audio.
@@encapsulatio can't you run whisper on Linux? Or you are looking for more simpler option?
4:35 What is that CPU temp???? You throttling!
I love Flatpaks, and always will try to advocate for them.
That being said, every time I use them. They are always a inferior experience to native packages.
There is also some nagging bug or functionality loss.
Appimages also have been constant on the small issues.
The are small but always lead to native packages. cause a vast majority of the time, they just tend to work.
I have never used Snaps. So, unable to comment on them. besides the usual boo closed source backend.
From using Ubuntu for a while and being forced to use the Firefox snap by default, it’s pretty bad, in my experience it takes longer to launch and reach a usable state while also consuming more cpu and ram than its packaged equivalent.
It was based off of ubuntu then switch to debian to avoid legal issues, you had ot a little wrong
I use Arch btw...
Imagine if there was open source offbrand anime game engine
well that's a lot to learn, but still definitely sounds better than being greeted by a FULLSCREEN AD to install Windows 11 that simultaneously tells me I need to upgrade my hardware in order to even install Windows 11 again the next time I boot my Windows 10 install!
Fingers crossed it'll work out well! Cause I am DONE with Microsoft's BS and I want to take the power back over my own PC!
You're CPU sitting at a chilly 100C....😮
these are all the reasons i switched back to windows
Dual boot exists
@@sebastiangonzales46 I know i have done dual boot, but gaming is just easier on windows. I have now switched to MacOS for school
I'm a Debian (kde) user. I find this after arch-based distros the most challenging and I think I found the reason, which got confirmed by my very few friends who use linux.
You can get up and running very easily. Steam, Lutris and stuff make it very comfortable. Only thing that you have to do by opening the terminal is getting flatpak up and running.
BUT! Where I failed and most people failed is customization.
Linux allows for an awful lot of customization and tinkering and as soon as you try to do so without already knowing what you're doing, you're off for an adventure.
Nobody breaks their system by doing the basic stuff that they do on windows/macos as well, but do so trying to squeeze out what linux offers.
This is why people argue "it isn't the OS, it's user error".
If you really only care about gaming, browsing, watching videos and what now, you won't have any problem with it.
If you then find out you can automate your video-encoding, put it in a systemd-service and what not, you'll have to get through a learning-curve.
Linux is easy if you stick to the basic stuff. It's time-consuming to learn the advanced stuff.
Easy anticheat keeps kicking me out
This is all just too much of a hassle. You always end up with some weird glitches. Especially missing textures or flickering, the game not even able to load.... I started using minimal windows editions like Ghost Spectre and leave Linux to my server and smartphone only.
Please do not use alternate versions of Windows that are not by Microsoft. Use only official downloads from Microsoft.
@@Trafotin Well, I would if Microsoft offers a Win11 light version ;)
AMD is the bleeding edge features on Linux.. if you running Nvidia on Linux to game your doing it wrong. Nvidia was nothing but headaches when I still used one on Linux.. AMD everything just works
Bro Your CPU is getting to 100 celcius of temperature u gotta update the cooling in ur system man.
I'm on windows, and I still use heroic. Epic's launcher is garbage, and GOG's just doesn't want to work sometimes.
This isn't a Gentoo video.
This isn t a Slacwarre video
This isnt a Linux From Scratch Video
This inst a Archtrash Video
and.....you are a BOT
@@fabricio4794 nope I'm a lizard man
frame consistency and input issues are the biggest issues in linux for competitive games outside of anticheat
also makes non-competitive games feel bad to play
although i dont use wayland because ive tried 3 times and never gotten it to work
p.s. nvidia user (most competitive gamers have nvidia gpus)
still too much work just to get it running
Linux must get nvidia to run flaweless! Most gamers have NV Cards. Love Linux but my 4090 on every distro has allways problems.
Regata_OS
Flatpak and snaps are evil. Stay on .debs!
100C lol
You can tell from how he speaks that he's heavily biased towards Linux😂
oof, too many hurdles.
wayland sucks, well as long as I can't disable vsync I can't use it
Step One: Remove Linux
Step Two: Install Windows
Sorry, but devs are abandoning Linux. I wonder if Photon actually hurt in some ways, as it dissuaded devs from providing native clients.
Oh god how i hate the vtuber thing, i am considering closing the video rigjt from the start
One other small upside - if you're a filthy cheater, Game Conqueror is much easier to get running than Cheat Engine on Windows. I think I had to go through two or three layers of "I can't let you do that" before I could download and run Cheat Engine on Windows 10.
Get away from git or be owned by M$
I hate git as much as the next guy, but Microsoft doesn't own git, they own GitHub. They're not the same thing.
Lets foot on the Ground - First of All,Windows Game Titles are Very Repetitive -( Lot of Milsim games,FPS shooting,this sucks,etc etc,they arent be So Creative nowadays),On Other Hand Devices Emulation and LInux Games on Steam that you dont need to Mambo Jambo,just install and Play - Good,PSP , PS2 and Dreamcast and XBOX has A Lot of More interesting Games than the New Ones(who cares about war thunder,that i can play a lot of Single Player Action RPGs on PSP Emulation running all in the Maximum?)
Cool guide.