Everything you NEED to know about Linux gaming
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This is an introduction to Linux gaming, everything you should know when setting started. This includes basic Steam setup, getting some Windows games working, extra tools and more!
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00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Steam and Proton
03:02 - ProtonDB
03:28 - proton-ge/ProtonUp-Qt
05:14 - Game Managers/Wine Helpers
07:37 - Drivers
09:20 - MangoHud
10:54 - Gamemode
11:24 - Emulators
12:52 - Custom Kernels - Věda a technologie
there's never been a better time to play games on Linux than now, thank you Valve, Lutris, Heroic and the Linux community.
Well...probably true, but I prefer to use Windows rather than an emulator like Wine. I mean the person with the highest frame rate wins in many games, right? I might be interested in Linux is you could play chess online, but my partner's game is Fortnite, which doesn't run on Linux from what I heard on this video.
@@raylopez99 wine is not an “emulator” and in most cases you won’t find the fps on Linux a lot different from running on Windows
@@raylopez99 Wine litterally stands for Wine is not an emulator because it isn’t. It’s a compatibility layer that translates windows api/syscalls into calls that Linux can understand and use. It doesn’t emulate anything.
@@raylopez99 I get higher FPS on Linux on most games, because linux has a lot less crap it has to run in the background and is overall far more optimized than windows
@@moosedoggy But you can't run Fortnite on Linux? That's my gf's game of choice. Me? I play chess online and you can use any browser for that.
Please make a part-2 for more advance gaming tips:
- Installing games with custom installers like DVD setups and games you just extract (so no install) or an executable zip/rar.
- Game modding
- Using game trainers
- VR gaming
- How set up a DosBox game
- Games that don't have a Lutris install scrip
- Emulation (and therefor also, installing controllers)
One final question, I"m always told to install separate Vulcan drivers, is this really necessary ? I see no mention of this.
It is one thing to tell someone how to do it, but I'd rather you show us from start to finish without editing cuts.
For Vulkan you either don't need to do anything in case of most distros as RADV is a part of Mesa (the open source graphic "driver") or if using more DIY distro like Arch installing additional packages like vulkan-radeon that provides RADV support. And obviously there is nvidia with their binary blob that should have everything prepackaged.
For any troubles with controllers, emulation, etc. I highly recommend using Arch wiki no matter what distro you use. In any topic it has many solutions to common problems that should work everywhere or just changing some path/name of package.
This is anecdotal but I will say that having vulkan-radeon (Mesa) and amdvlk (GPUOpen) is good to try.
With EndeavourOS I find Apex Legends to perform slightly better with amdvlk, whereas in Dishonored 2 while I did get higher FPS via amdvlk there were some few stutters that didn't seem to be caued by shader compilation, since with vulkan-radeon those stutters were gone (but at the cost of slightly lower FPS and a tad worse but still manageable frametimes).
There's also experimental emulators for the PS3 (RPCS3) and PSVita (Vita3k) that have very promising compatibility results.
I wonder how they emulate Vita's back touchpad
I actually haven't tried that yet, None of the homwbrew on my actual Vita utilizes the back touchpad so I can't really test that.
i wouldnt call rpcs3 experimental, it does most things perfectly and is one of the best emulators ive played with interms of configuration and more, even better then dolphin imo
@@pineapplepie4929 fair point, Vita3k definitely is though
the biggest hurdle right now is anti cheat software. Even though some anti cheat software supports wine/proton, the developers do not enable support on their side.
The Steam Deck has done so much for gaming on Linux! you made this vid half a year ago and now gaming on Linux is 10 times better, I've had FFXIV running for 7 hours non-stop at 150fps maximum graphics without a single dropped frame and my machine is silent. All while watching videos on the second monitor, really is insane.
That is some insane performance. Just imagine the possibilities in just couple of years.
Linux is the best OS rn
Man, I remember struggling to play sims on Ubuntu over 10 years ago. Things have definitely improved; I can now play many steam games on Linux with no issues 😊
i give linux a chance but it always happens that you need to debug, search investigate and test its sometimes so much work that I really dont want to do while you try to relax i appreciate the effort the community is doing we need more companies to give native support to linux Update: i solve my initial issues and trying again lol i really love the customization parts
Exactly my experience. I am so sick of Windows for its constant ads and other things that just aren't necessary to use an OS, but it by far has the most out-of-the-box usability, especially when it comes to games. I don't have the time of day to mess with all these settings and tweaks, so I would rather just stick with Windows for a little longer.
@@SelibeIi yeah i feel you I did tried again and my hate for windows is as great as my love for teaking things so idk
This problem is already solved! Distros like manjaro or Mint literaly gives you all the tools on GUI, and require little to no configuration, depending on your demandings
It grows on you. Over time, you learn to love, "need" the setting
@@SelibeIi Just debloat windows or get a custom windows iso but, it is still sad I love linux and all the customization you can do yet it's still not ready for gaming sadly
If anyone is interested in playing Half-Life, xash3d can be built even on a Raspberry Pi and allow you to play it at full speed. And dhewm3 can also be built for a Raspberry Pi and allow you to play Doom 3 at full speed. Elsewhere too, of course, but I just think it's really awesome that an SBC can play games at full speed which when they were brand new required beefier desktop hardware than what was normal.
EmuDeck and Steam ROM Manager make the SteamDeck an absolutely fantastic little emulation machine as well, much easier than setting up an emulation front-end on the desktop even in Windows.
I expected to see Nobara mention after custom kernels.
This video is a goldmine! Thank you so much!!!
For those that like Fedora, GloriousEggRoll, the protonGE guy, also manages Nobara that includes lots of gaming improvements to make getting everything going very easy.
I've used Debian and Arch for years but my HW is so new that I wasn't able to get anything below 6.0 kernel livecd to even boot or install. Finally decided to try Nobara with kernel 6.1.4 and after a few hickups, wayland used 100% CPU before I managed to install NVIDIA drivers and boot, it's been running well for a day or two. Apex Legends plays super smooth, even smoother than in Windows 11. No tearing, frame skips or anything like that. Now I can stay on linux 99% of time. I managed to get noise suppression working with werman/noise-suppression-for-voice plugin. It's almost as good as RTX Voice/NVIDIA Broadcast.
Only problems so far are that push to talk doesn't work in OBS/Discord and it's driving me insane. Has something to do with wayland not capturing key inputs unless the window is active.
@@ex1tium I switched back to X11 from Wayland and it seems to work a lot better with the Nvidia drivers and Discord so maybe try that and see if it helps. In Nobara it's pretty easy to change.
You have a typo in the chapter name "kernels". Great video as always! :D
Fixed it thank you :)
Ah wish you mentioned Nobara Project when talking about Fedora as this is a project set up by GE to make Fedora more gaming focussed :)
Thanks for posting this. It looks like gaming really has come a long way on Linux since I last tried. I am hoping to be completely windows free before being forced to move to win11 to game.
I was having lots of troubles with Lutris and Bottles last night so I'm glad to see there are more options. Very useful vid.
What do you need Lutris for? I might be able to help you out with an alternative.
@@Brain_pocketer Starcraft 2. I haven't really put much effort into finding a fix yet, but it would be nice to have it working.
I know a bit but your explanations straighten out many details. Thanks m8. 🖖 👌 🇦🇺
I've had quite a lot of problems with Linux gaming on an nvidia Powered laptop (Asus with 950m). Recently I tried pop_OS with Lutris but absolutely no game would launch and I basically gave up. Even though I know my way around computers and I'm not afraid of the Terminal, I simply don't want to deal with this when I just want to game and relax. Everything should be simple and straightforward.
I also understand nVidia has never made it easy for Linux users. Probably my next machine will be an AMD machine. They have seen much more open with their standards.
I really appreciate these kinds of videos. You mentioned much more alternatives that I've never heard of. Thank you!
You should try Manjaro, many will disagree, but for me it is the easiest distro to game on, Nvidia is pre-configured and most special dependencies and tools you can find on AUR without needing terminal commands.
@@Deezter16Manjaro? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGA
Hey op, don't listen to this idiot, manjaro is horrible
@@samyt681 nice argument
At this point it's important some of these dev support native Linux games too. The wine translation layer is super good but, Linux should get its own native ports like other platforms but there're still issues about market share and optimisation that companies don't provide it's a hit or miss. But current growth for gaming does show a positive future for gaming on Linux.
Thing is, they would have to write a vulkan renderer instead of directx to get that good performance while still supporting linux natively, and that’s apparently hard from what I’ve heard
Nice video. Thanks
Which Linux distro do you recommend for gaming? I'm loving using Xubuntu for programming, but most people recommend me using the normal Ubuntu one, or even KDE
hey man if I want to use gamemode and mangohud in steam launch options do I have to put: " mangohud %command% gamemode %command%" or "mangohud gamemode %command%" ?
I'm already there, man! Almost all the games in my main genre (fighting games, with the exception of Dragon Ball FIghterZ 'cause of EAC) work on Linux without any faffing around with settings. Here's hoping Street Fighter VI works day one once it comes out.
bery cool, nice videos, didn't know about gamemode, learning something new every time. :D
I am using GameHub because I like the interface and the only issue I have with it is that multiple times all my installed GOG and manually added games disappeared from the list of installed. It probably happened after installing GH updates. So I needed to manually add the installation folder and executable.
For some reason Steam games are not impacted.
Steam has basically appropriated open source technology and then pushed it forward and incorporated it into steam. That's all you really need to know.
Great video, I was waiting for a all in one video about getting started with linux gaming.
Thanks, James
I know that the raspberry pi could be used for video casting but I was wondering if somebody develop an app on Linux so you can make any x86 hardware a caster or it's something a little bit more difficult
Buddy, you can tell about StartWine Launcher, I heard that they wrote a program for launching games on Linux. Thank you!
@TechHut #TechHut I have a question.!
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Can I point Steam on Linux to my existing Steam on Windows library.? This would be a massive boon to me as my internet speed is very, very slow, and I also want to easily switch back to Windows as required. Thanks.
Pretty nice vid
Switch to Proton Experimental, Enable it for all games, Install EAC, Install Battleeye. Next get a gaming kernel and the gamemode daemon, >>> cap your fps
Can you explain more please? Why? Does it make more games work?
Do you need Proton Running While you are playing a game?
My next build for gaming will not require Windows
Hope someone develops software like throttlestop too. My laptop has no bios options to give good thermals.
So my use case is verity gaming with friends. We will try new online multiplayer games frequently maybe sometimes 3-4 times a night till we find a game we get hooked on for a while.
As of right now we just install and go no real down time waiting for people to get up and going.
If I do this I want to make sure I won't be missing out on the action or holding up the group.
So my real question is how easy is it to get going from downloading, installing and playing online with friends.
I had a question about a dual drive dual boot system. I have windows 10 on one drive and mint on another. I do not have grub installed and I installed steam. When I try to import my games from my other drives I run into issues when running the games. The game will start and immediately crash. Is there some compatibility issue with the file system (ntfs vs fat)? Or something else. I am a Linux noob but have been using dos and windows since 1987.
Nice Vid
Any update on the state of PCVR on linux?
wow this video is crazy... of all the things i found goin thru my llinux gaming phase (now im complacent with dual booting windows till i get a second gpu for my games) this video showed AALLLLLL of em, not in detail but still crazy
I loved the part about emulators! Maybe you can do an up-to-date video about console emulators on Linux.
So long as you don't play many recent multiplayer and know some of the really obscure games with custom engines probably won't work then Linux gaming is absolutely fantastic. Easily the best experience with emulators and the vast majority of games, especially single player, will run perfectly.
Halo Infinite Multiplayer works fine tho on the steam deck through steam os and Apex Legends
So if I ignore that Linux gaming is missing critical basic gaming features like multiplayer support then yes I can always say Linux gaming is fantastic.
@@SelibeIi good, im more of a singe player guy
good stuff
I've been running dual boot with Manjaro for about a year now. I have about half my steam library working on linux. Things work *most* of the time, but there's some days where I have to spend time troubleshooting. For example the other day steam would not launch and I couldn't explain why. The next day, it just worked. Unfortunately, I will still also need windows for some games for the foreseeable future.
The biggest hurdle I'm facing now is that some games (namely satisfactory) do not behave well with dual monitors with different refresh rates. Says I'm getting 90 fps but it feels like 30 with horrible input lag. Unplug the second monitor and it is buttery smooth. If I could fix this issue I would be a lot more interested in installing even more games on linux.
Switch to AMD for your GPU and use wayland. Its the best multi monitor support at the moment.
"Linux gaming"
*Opens the video
I am playing Doom Eternal here on Linux (Zorin 16.2).
The game runs as smooth as runs on Windoze.
Without lag, without tearing and without BSOD.
Hello, I have a 5700xt, and regardless of the linux distribution, be it arch manjaro, fedora, debian, even garuda, pop os, etc. the problem is that in windows with the virtual super resolution I can play elden ring at 4k but when I do it in linux with the gamescope and it is played the bad thing is that it does not last 1 minute and the pc crashes completely, the light on the graphics turns on again and so some solution, because I would like to leave windows completely
I have i74790 16gb ram z97x-gaming 5
We Need a Linux Gaming Festival...and You should do a Hardware Showcase Channel Too..Gaming on Linux with Hardware sponsors Too....
I was expecting a video through the configs and demo :c
It's very impressive what they've done with Proton, DXVK and all the compatibility stuff, but it's not perfect of course. With so many popular game engines supporting native linux builds, I really hope the game studios will start bothering to hit that button and give us a native binary. If you're thinking about buying a game to play on linux, make sure you download and test it immediately, before you buy a bunch of DLC and let it sit there for a month while the refund period expires.
Be content with Proton & DXVK. Enjoy while it lasts. No one will bother with Linux.
Which linux distro is better for steam gaming out of the box? Last time I used linux was ubuntu back in 2006 when I dualbooted with windows xp. I heard pop OS is the best for gaming on linux right now
Consider Garuda, or Linux Mint. Some people also suggest PopOS.
is it possible to run a windows virtual machine on Linux and play games that way or is it not possible or worth the bother?
i don't have much knowledge about Linux and Virtual machines, so if anyone can explain if its possible?
Any way to get oculus/steam vr to work on linux?
You are suggesting to use flathub apps and also suggests goverlay. Goverlay is not available on flathub and any app downloaded from flathub doesn't work along with apps not from flathub.
I have had this issue and confusion for a long time. I still have issues of getting goverlay and mangohud work properly. I hope some one makes a good chronological explaination of what needs to be done and why and what problems we might encounter.
Hope someone makes good mangohud fork too with already integrated graphical interface.
Yessir 👏👏👏
i use arch btw
can I run steam games from a exfat drive?
what partition format works for steam games in linux (ext4, ntfs, exfat, etc)?
any
The only game that I'm personally still waiting for is Halo MCC to work with EAC.
Cant help but notice that you own Awesomenauts
What can i say that game is pretty cool imo
If your hardware is old and GPU doesn't support vulkan prepare for even more sluggish gaming experience on Linux even if games do work because having to use slower directx -> OpenGL compatibility layers
My biggest question is, will I get better performance at games than in Windows??
How do you guys handle gaming with dualsense outside steam? There basically isn't a single properly supported controller.
The dualsense controller is officially supported by Sony, having released Kernel drivers for it a while ago. Like all supported Linux hardware, including controllers, they're plug and play, nothing to do. Should work out of the box.
I don't consider myself a gamer but I have used linux as my daily os since 1995 and I work in IT with linux since 1997. Due to memory issues from cancer treatment, drs recommend in 2021 I play games. My employer purchased a nintendo switch for me to help pass time during long chemo treatment days in 2020. I started playing games on it. Once I realized green hell had better graphics on computer vs nintendo switch, I changed over to using steam. Steam works very well with proton. All was well for many months but the last few months I have been totally aggravated with AMD crashing practically non-stop during game play. So if you have an amd graphics card, lets just say for several weeks/months now gaming has not been much fun and I know I am not the only person suffering from this.
I have a few computers that have windows 10 that dont meet the requirements for windows 11, one is an laptop which I'm definitely installing Linux on soon. Another is a gaming PC... I will bypass the requirements for windows 11... If windows 11 doesn't work well/get security updates though... I'm a little less intimidated going the Linux route, seems like compatibility/emulation is looking pretty good. Plus it's clearly less bloated and more secure, gaming is really my only hesitation. I do play a mix of modern single player, retro and multiplayer games... But honestly I play online way more on my PS5... So I can probably deal with this.
Even if I did get a new gaming PC like Microsoft clearly wants me to do, having my old PC on Linux as an office PC or in my bedroom with some games is definitely a route I'll go
Setting compatibility and mangohud for each game is a hassle. SteamTinkerLaunch fixes this.
ReplaySorcery doesn't work on wayland. gpu-screen-recorder works on x11 and wayland.
My rule when gaming on my linux desktop is simple:
"If it had a complicated anti cheat, don't play it. If it doesn't have a complicated anti cheat, play it."
What about mc bedrock the android port is really laggy for my laptop, its kinda random question but thats this
@@Cheapaudioman_. hell na
Tried Manjaro about 2 years ago. The OS had lagging animations of windows minimized/maximized and other annoying bugs in the UI. Whatever. Probably wrong distro for my system.
I played mainly GW2 at the time. Installed it. Barely managed to get it working with sound after a day of tinkering, reading, typing in the terminal and watching videos. And this is without any mods and add-ons that i normally use with the game, which may or may not work under linux.
I'm sorry but this is not ok. I want to use linux, i really do, i like it as an OS and i use it all the time at work, but a day to get a game properly working? No thanks. If it was an hour or two - who cares.
I understand that the majority of games are for Windows and getting them to run under Linux is normally a pain, but if people are to move away from the monopoly of Windows, things on Linux need to be a lot more streamlined and a lot more user friendly. After all, gaming is a leisure activity, not command prompt/terminal struggle with tutorials and forum advices.... Well.. to each their own, some people might enjoy that, but not my cup of tea and i imagine not the cup of tea to the larger mass of potential users, given the adoption rate of Linux for gaming at present.
This isn't really a guide for people to switch to Linux *because* they want to game on it, it's objectively an inferior option for most people. This is more meant for people who use Linux (for ideological or privacy/security reasons) *and* want to game on it. Of course not *everything* will work because like you said - it's made for windows, it's a damn miracle it works as well as it does. Right now with steam and some other game launchers, it's as streamlined as it can be - you press play and it works with most popular games. Everything else is gonna be a bit more of a pain but is still doable if you're dedicated to freedom and privacy over convenience like most Linux users are. Remember that people are developing most of those things for free, in their own free time, there's no single entity or corporation funding it or profiting from it, there's no one paying the developers. This is a community project and as such, it moves slower than commercial ones, but you can see the route all commercial projects seem to be heading and make your own choice.
Ubuntu Linux problems: speakers dont work. Dlna server apps dont recognize external hard drives, which means i cant stream to my tv off my storage device. periodically freezes. glitchy installer. ya Linux has a way to go.
Will alder lake cpus work ???
What do you mean? I’ve been using Linux (EndeavourOs) on my 12600K machine since I built the computer in the spring, no problems I’ve noticed relating to the cpu.
Tell me of a linux distro that allows me to install offline games (pc games that don't use launchers such as steam and all that nonsense).
Steam tinker launcher needs a bunch of work, currently is a broken mess that doesn't detect existing proton, install correctly with dependencies, etc. This is really bad considering you almost need it to be on par with Windows.
Now only thing holding me to switch to linux is anti cheat software support
Lutris is amazing. It allows you to tweak all sorts of stuff with games. I was afraid of wine and winecfg and winetricks before, lutris made it all in one tweaking place.
How well does it integrate with SteamDeck and launching from game-mode?
@@AlexChama There's a dedicated "Add to Steam as Shortcut" option that lets you easily access the game from game-mode on the deck
3:23 libary?
I don't do online/co-op/party games. Any game that will not play in single player mode without anti-cheat will not find space on my drive.
GOG games and launcher should just work perfectly fine with Linux, does it not?
i wish holoiso wasn’t broken rn
Me trying gaming on Linux:
game 1: works fine.
game 2: starts then closes immediately.
game 3: actually opens, but then freezes.
game 4: works somewhat OK, but a fragment of the screen is cut off.
It sucks so much. I don't reccomend it at all.
One thing I wish was covered somewhere is how to get some pirated games running cause it can often be a hassle without any official support. And I don't mean modern titles actually available on platforms like steam, I mean older games that you can actually no longer buy anywhere with piracy being legit the only option to get them. Recently I wanted to get Harry Potter 2 working, my absolute childhood favourite, I owned a legit copy too, but even on Windows it's very hard to get it working nowadays. Using bottles, it took me ages to get it to work properly, get past many different crashes, mess with resolutions, apply some patches etc. I got so sick of it, by the time I got it working (and even then it only worked like half the time), I no longer felt like playing it xd
It really is a pain in the ass to get games older than ~2008 running. It's usually easier to just run an older version of windows with qemu/pcem than it is to try and somehow get it working on a modern OS. I don't think whether or not it's pirated affects the difficulty all that much.
PlayOnLinux + Lutris.
@@0ffaI i have tried last month to play cs1.6 on linux mint and it ran fine, only problem i got was text missing, i downloaded 3 fonts i was told to download from wine database and worked fine, another friend of mine on mint cinnamon, it worked for him out of the fox with no issues, this game came out in 2000, so not all games are hopeless
@@zeta_eclipse Yepp a lot of the time you get lucky and old games work just fine. ~70% of old titles I download just works in vanilla wine or through heroic's proton.
It's that other ~30% of the time that makes you give up and boot up WinXP.
@@0ffaI i see, well am glad u can at least play most of them
Good video and very helpful to those want to game on Linux :)( Fun fact im a Linux casual gamer although I mainly play Minecraft Java 1.8.9 pvp and Roblox via grapejuice tool )
RetroArch
RPCS3
Steam/Proton
Lutris
Ryujinx
The only games you can't play with that group of apps are current pc games with invasive anticheat features. Reasonable anticheat, like EAC works fine.
Basically unless you are a hardcore pvp player linux does gaming perfectly well these days
Get mostly everything in this video pre-installed & configured with Garuda Dr460nized Gaming Edition. 😃
Division 2, the one single game that I can't live without that keeps me tied to Windows. Oh Massive, why have you forsaken me, please enable EAC for linux, that's all I want for Christmas. I'm kind of tempted to give Nobara a try, it appears to provide all the tools necessary to run an optimized Linux system for gaming which takes away all the extra work of adding other tools to a distro after you've installed it.
I recommend the tkg-bmq kernel, especially for AMD cpus.
Some games actually end up running better on Linux than they do on Windows, due to the kernel + Vulkan layer. And the opensource AMD drivers end up being faster for some GPUS like the rx580, because the community is still patching new optimisations in where as AMD has given up on the Windows drivers for those cards.
As for opencl, I have a computer with a APU, AMD does not support rocm (opencl) on those chips, but some heroes have patched it to work on Linux, so thats one thing Linux can do that Windows can't, because AMD says no.
since the recent announcement of microsoft retiring win10 i've been looking into linux gaming more. i'm not a novice at linux as i use it for work but i have never used it for gaming. what distro would you recommend? i'm looking for a distro that has good compatibility with a lot of different titles and i'm not shying away from needing to do kernel tweaking with custom kernels or other optimizations if they can be installed with packages or scripts and i dont need to fiddle too much with obscurities. i play on amd cpu and gpu that are fairly new, last gen and current gen respectively.
@@Tunturisorsa You may want to go for a distro that is based on what you use at work. If you are familiar with Debian then you may wish to try Pop!_OS. It is Ubuntu based which is Debian derived but more cutting edge and kept more up to date than Ubuntu itself. Arch based , Manjaro seems to be popular but personal experience with it has not been good. Three times I have tried it and each time have ended up with an unusable setup after it got broken by updates. If you like to tinker and troubleshoot though, it may be okay. If you are used to using Red Hat then a Fedora based set up may work for you. Nobara is a pretty much out of the box solution with Steam, Lutris and wine pre installed as well as other tweaks such as an optimised kernel. Personally I mainly used Centos based servers and some Debian. Debian or rather Ubuntu has been my preferred desktop flavour but i don't like the way Ubuntu is going. I have been testing different distro's and Nobara is on my shortlist at the moment
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@@Tunturisorsa for something to just use, id go with fedora or pop, for tweaking stuff i'd go with something arch based or rolling release, manjaro seems like a great choice but i havent tried it myself
@@Tunturisorsa I'd recommend Pop!_OS because it's pretty stable while offering newer drivers and hardware support.
@@kausong Linux Mint is a great distro, and isn't a bad choice necessarily, but depending on how new someone's hardware is, I wouldn't recommend it.
Great great video!! Great I information I wish they would make the games with Anti Cheat native for Linux then it would be bye bye Windows
One problem for me with lutris is that i can play ghost recon break point just with low resolution and no way to change it to 2k or 4k. don't know why ? any solution for that issue
try using different versions of the runner
@@AleJiTeorik I already used couple of runners, same thing, the game work but with low resolution. i launch game with uplay in lutris
@@-a-1908 which GPU do u have?
@@AleJiTeorik RTX 3070, 3440x1440 monitor
@@-a-1908 and which distro?, U can use another GPU driver if the one u have installed doesn't work properly.
If u have debían try with Nvidia Tesla or if u have arch try with nvidia-dkms
Steamdeck has radically changed Linux's destiny.
Riot games dont work with secure boot off
My i7 4770 and rx 560 must be too low powered. I can't run deep rock galactic at a playable frame rate regardless of proton version. Tried proton GE.
I guess it wont work on battlefield games
My linux gaming adventure is over for the meantime. Im using an MSI GE76 Raider laptop and i can not deal with this thing overheating. The CPU temps are out of control when im gaming and i havent found a remedy. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Shit....just saw the gamemode part. :(
have you tried undervolting ?
@@Pieteros21 no, hmmm, by using cpufreq maybe?
@@donaldc3884 i don't have much experience in undervolting laptops so i won't suggest exact methodology . Rather suggestion what to do , not how :D
@@donaldc3884If you have a discrete gpu just use corectrl, maybe it work only on amd gpu.
@@donaldc3884 You have to undervolt it in the bios, there are guides on it on youtube and its really easy to be honest.
But getting EA App to run on linux is annoying. Dithced windows 11 for Ubuntu regarding Gaming, and media consumption
Valorant on Linux?
All of this is so confusing. I just want to click once to download a client/app, one click to download the game, and a final click to install and run the game.
I believe Linux will replace windows even more once graphics card drivers from actual companies allow their windows support software to be able to run on any Linux distribution such as Adrenalin Edition, GeForce Experience and Intel graphics card software (I can't remember what that software is called).
Basically if all three of these graphic drivers can run natively on any Linux distribution without relying on any other third party software and other ways to put on software without using the terminal like how Windows install they are software (I'm saying this if you want to bring people to the Linux environment you have to pour it in the way that doesn't scare people away from Linux distribution so I say you have to put in a way that is the ease of use) I believe this would make people think Linux might be the option to use instead of Windows.
So I'm saying Linux by having a look at it I would say it's nearly there it just needs to be at ease of use for those people who never use Linux before and once Linux have reached that ease of use for those people are not used to Linux everyone would most probably go straight to Linux instead of Windows especially if they know Linux is free.
Value will be the only one to replace Windows for gaming because it won't break the hardware ever time there is any update and will let you use the same hardware as Windows.
That's what value is work towards. To make PCs just as big if not bigger then console gaming. To do that though you need to have a focus on one OS.
So the rest will be left put in the cold. It will either be Value with Stream or Windows with Steam.
Yep I have created my Pop OS usb boot drive now I just need to get paid so I can grab my RX 6800 and install it. :)
For a pure gaming rig, a games console if you will, HoloISO (SteamOS3) is amazing. Easily the best way to go.
If you want Desktop Linux with gaming then Steam works just as well on most distros. Personally I favour Kubuntu. Love KDE. Kubuntu is Debian/Ubuntu based (by far the most popular) and offers a basic no bloat install.
Now try Nobara OS
holoiso hasn't given me good results like at all. it used to work great, but at some point they fucked it up. please stop recommending it :)
here cause of Windows 11 recall!!