Steam Deck OS on a PC | ChimeraOS
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- Testing ChimeraOS - an Arch Linux distro based on the Steam Deck UI - on a near console-equivalent gaming PC.
While building my “console equivalent” PC for a previous video, I captured a lot of footage using ChimeraOS - an intriguing choice of operating system for anyone building a PC for the living room. Unfortunately, I ended up being forced to swap back to Windows for that video, but I decided to put this one together so that I could talk a little about my positive experience with Chimera, along with a few issues that came up.
I Built a 9th Gen Console (kinda) • I Built a 9th Gen Cons...
ChimeraOS’s official startup guide: • ChimeraOS Getting Star...
Tech Lion attempting to run SteamOS & ChimeraOS with a Geforce: • Failing to use SteamOS...
Matthew Anderson has a little more luck with a Geforce & ChimeraOS: • Use iGPU for Gamescope...
Hardware Lab’s Linux gaming video: • Gaming on Linux: What ...
System specs:
AMD Ryzen 4700G APU (OEM only, available used on AliExpress & eBay)
Gigabyte B550 Gaming X
Klevv 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-4000 CL19 @ CL18
WD Blue 1TB NVMe Gen 3 SSD
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6700 10GB
EVGA 700 GD 80+ Gold PSU
A cardboard box
Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg/
Track names: “Future Tomorrow”, "Starstream Returns, “Hotline”, “Vaporwaves”, “Levelcap”, “The Doc WIll See You Now”
00:00 SteamOS on a gaming PC
00:42 Introducing ChimeraOS
01:30 The Hardware
02:43 The Operating System
03:48 Chimera’s Quirks
05:57 Steam Games
09:19 One Little Flaw
09:49 Conclusion
A D S
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For the record, DaVinci Resolve has official Linux support, it's Adobe that has been really neglecting the OS, nothing from Creative Cloud is coming from them unfortunately
adobe sucks anyway. Also, we should give support to Kdenlive or whatever comes after.
If I recall correctly the Linux version of Davinci Resolve had issues working with AMD graphics cards, I do not know if it still is the case today, but I think that is why he said that in the video. (especially after he mentioned using an AMD card with the DIY console). I do, however use an Nvidia GPU and it does work very well.
@@Splarkszter Adobe does suck, but we have to remember that it does do a lot of things better than it's competition, which is what most people like.
@Splarkszter all hail KDEnlive! Hands down the best free video editor I’ve ever used! I don’t care about DaVinci Resolve, even if it’s “better” it crashed on me several times when trying to use it for the first time and was too confusing to figure out, couldn’t even figure out how to import a video clip, things like that are unforgivable and seals a programs fate for me.
But KDEnlive in the other hand, it worked right away no problem, is familiar and similar and actually “intuitive” (feels like that word gets thrown around a lot and misused, hey devs, it’s another word for “instinctual” or “natural” as in you can dive in and use a program how you expect it should be used) with an almost nonexistent learning curve and it’s so powerful even in its current state. If they could only add some feature that something like After Effects has had since version 7.0, which I still use from time to time on an old Windows 7 machine, like 3D layers, virtual lights and virtual cameras, I’d never need another video editor for as long as I live.
All hail KDEnlive!
DaVinci Resolve is very mercurial when running on Linux. Try as I might (including posting on official forums about my issue), I could not run it on my PopOs install. So I am still using Windows to run it.
9:30 . Mesa (the driver that amd gpus use), received ray tracing support in it's new release about 5 days ago, so while the performance is horrid, it should be stable by the end of the year. I suppose this is an example of the stupidly rapid progress linux gaming has seen these last 5 years, since proton was released
Already playable with ray tracing, actually (just require extra steps, like installing bleeding edge Mesa and smth like "RADV_PERFTEST=rt VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11" in game launch options), if you have some overpowered thing like 7900xtx. That being said, there a lot of work on performance side, cause Cyberpunk on "4k & ultra & overdrive RT & no upscaling" works at 5-6 fps on 7900xtx. That not linux problem tho, but say a lot about current hardware possibility's.
@@delancre5858there is also (VK_KHR_ray_tracing)
Minecraft RTX Runs very smoothly though, It seems like RT Games that don't necessarily utilize the acceleration structure have solid performance.
@@light-gray I think also minecraft RTX is the easiest RTX game to run
@@nadiaezzarhouni300thats a vulkan lagical device extension that needs to be enabled when logical device is created.
as someone who owns a steam deck, i am glad to see how far linux has come, and its nice to see a much brighter future for linux gamers
You say that, but Linux has only become known due to SteamDeck, and Valve singlehandedly pushing the industry in that direction.
If something happens to Valve's strategy that causes them to cease hardware production, Linux will drop back into obscurity.
I've been a Linux only user for almost 6 years now and the amount of progress we've made when it comes to gaming is very amazing. I mean a couple of years ago we'd be lucky to get anything running at all, usually resorting to a windows vm with a gpu pass through. But now? Now we often get day one support even for major releases. The only reason some online games don't work, is because the devs refuse to add support. Many anti cheat solutions do support Linux, the devs just have to enable it for their game.
It's not that simple. The newer version of the anti-cheat supports Linux, but maybe the games anti-cheat hasn't been updated in years.hl
love seeing stuff like this and hopefully watching it mature and become an ever more viable option
I cannot believe you only have 30k subs... This is some of the highest quality content I have seen on the entire platform
real
He got into the game late sadly, the YT market is heavily saturated with BS as you know.
Never thought I would see Linux being tested on your channel! Hope to see more of it in the future ;)
I cry a little every time a CZcamsr has to put "Steam Deck OS" in the title knowing it's not the right name, because they know that's what users/the algorithm want.
Thanks for covering this, thanks to Steam (Proton) and Lutris Linux gaming is now a thing. Your channel has rapidly become one of my favorite gaming/tech channels because of your broad coverage of unusual topics.
This is what I used for my 7840U mini PC. Works perfectly. Now I have a tv based gaming and emulation box.
ChimeraOS is something I’ve been messing with for a while now. I just shared this in their Discord for ya, nice video!
I recently made the switch from Windows first to Holoiso then ending up on Chimeraos.
Having a console like os for the computer I have plugged into my TV is what I've wanted for years. Only thing missing is hdmi 2.1 support and hdr support.
Also, you don't need another computer to add epic games, there is a chimera button in desktop mode that will allow you to add the games from the computer.
Valve has added very, VERY recently a very, VERY experimental HDR implementation
It a actually should be avalible in chimeraos, at least it was when I tried, Bur having a Nvidia GPU, yea, that didn't go quite so well
@@flamingscar5263 I tried the hdr with my rx 580 and it didn't work, I will be getting a 7900 xtx today so I'll try it again once I put the new gpu in.
Only thing that’s missing is Gamepass on Linux. 😢
I've been using HDR, although not with Chimera. I've been using another distro with the linux-hdr kernel from Joshua Ashton.
@@isaboll1what distro?
I've poked around on Linux for the last couple years on my secondary rig, and since christmas on the Steam Deck. I can say now that as soon as i can afford to replace the storage array in my main PC it'll be going Linux, and Windows going onto the secondary rig. For the games I play it works fine and not having M$ and who knows what else tracking my every action, yes please.
Didn't expect this, this video came out from nowhere 👌
In 2016 you could play some games from the early 2000's with a ton of tweaking and elbow grease. Today you just click and enable proton, then suddenly 60-70% of your steam library is playable. It is one hell of an improvement.
I would love to see more linux content as well as having you get more familiar with linux!
Vulkan RT works on Linux, but DX12 RT is the Problem.
btw you might want to play older titles, running dx9 or so
Windows often times can't launch games like KOTOR or has Texture glitches and/or missing cutscenes like in Jedi Academy
Linux doesn't
Great video. I Really like the editing and production quality
Way to be bold, and give this Linux OS a go, even as a Linux noob. Props to ya!
I'm currently building my first PC tv console AMD machine after many many years of not dabbling in the PC realm.
good to see how yr doing on yt
cheers
The editing is a little something extra in this video compared to some of your older stuff. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems better. Keep up the good work bro.
Balena is great, but I'd strongly recommend ventoy, that way you can have as many OS isos you want as well as being able to still use the remaining space of your flash drive to keep your personal files as well!
Balena is easier for beginners though.
@@JoeEnderman I doubt it, since Ventoy is just as easy to install, if not even easier after the initial setup. For Balena, you'd have to wipe your USB again, and again, and again so you can make a bootable USB, but Ventoy is different - you just have to run Ventoy once to install it into your USB, then you can just copy-paste all the ISOs you want to use.
AAAAAAAAAAAA TOUHOU AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@jamesbrendan5170 yes my child
You can use other launchers for like epic games like, Heroic games and Lutris for other games as well which has been there for a good while. Most can use proton.
Mesa 23.2 (not out yet) has ray tracing enabled by default now. 23.0 had it enabled for Quake II RTX and Doom Eternal only. Not sure what ChimeraOS is currently running.
Linux!!!! 🎉
Would it run on intel's I5?
Like,a sec gen, with an old Radeon card??
I know it’s not the point of the video but I love the text effects on your titles. The one around 6:06 with the character running through it made me smile. Would you ever consider doing a behind the scenes or tutorial video on how you create these effects? I’d love to see one :)
In Davinci Resolve, that's a Composite Mode called "Exclusion". I haven't used Premiere in years, but Photoshop has Exclusion as a layer blending mode, so I'd guess Prem does it the same way.
This video is from 2 months ago. Control was among the first games that got working RT on Linux. And it's been a while now. It currently needs some launch commands for RT to show up, but Mesa 23.2.0 will make RT default available in most games on RT capable GPUs.
And RT can be emulated on RADV on RDNA1-Vega-Polaris, maybe Fury also.
I could see myself switching to linux when support for windows 10 ends. By then the gaming experience on linux should be even better I hope!
7:33 It shows GPU Usage 0%. Is it not detecting GPU and running on iGPU
or It's just not monitoring.
👍🏆 Great video topic Iceberg Tech!
Question, does your gamepad wakes up the pc, when in sleep mode?
My Mini ITX HTPC in a Raven RVZ03 is meant to be a lazy console like controller based input pc in the future, and this is exactly the OS i've been looking for! Just a big picture mode steam like UI and a browser for youtube, a Xbox one but with more oomph..and isn't windows :) My old 4770k and 1060 3GB setup lives in there and with an IS-55 cooler, im setting it up while watching this video, absolute perfect timing! A lot of editing programs i've used were free and happen to be on linux too so i hope in future i can install it on my upgraded computer, aswell as see this OS through the upgrade to a 5500XT and 3300X in the Raven case in future!
This is amazing
there's a package on the AUR that allows you to install the chimeraOS/steamOS interface on any arch based distro, and you can log into it from your session manager like any desktop environment. I have it installed on my laptop and it's amazing. so much more streamlined and optimized than just running big picture mode within my desktop environment, especially since I can only allocate a measly 2gb of vram to my laptop's igpu of which KDE takes up 25-50% of. I also think it's pretty stupid that the resolution setting doesn't default to "native" (and there's no setting to change it) so you have to manually change it for every game. I've opened up so many games and then kicked myself for forgetting to set the resolution after realizing it looks like garbage lmao
ohh, that sounds really cool. might try that with endeavouros, because my chimeraos installation has had some issues
@@parkpunk i use endeavourOS actually, so i can confirm it works well lmao
@@dylon4906 do you know the name of the package? i want to try it on my eos laptop
@@parkpunk gamescope-session-git
@@dylon4906 thanks :)
5:39 I got that same error on steam deck when trying to play RDR2 with epic games. The fix was you had to edit the config file for the graphics settings, its weird though how that still hasn't been fixed.
On the topic of using chhimaraos as a secondary PC, you can use steam remote olay to stream incompatible games from your main PC, I do it with my steam deck for Destiny 2 and it works surprisingly well, an issue I have that most wont is the game gets streamed in my 21:9 ultrawide resolution, but it takes only a few seconds to chmage the resolution to a 16:9 or 16:10 option
Another option similar to steam remote play is moonlight, moonlight mainly end up being a better option if you want to stream non steam games
i like how nobody's talking about the pc that exploded in the intro
what about a video with a more mainstream linux like endeavouros or manjaro? or a anual look into linux
rt gets implimented systemwide in mesa 23.2, newest version is 23.1.5
How did you found those console settings for control? I`ve heard about the digital foundry`s console settings but never Remedy`s
Remedy themselves provided DF with the official console equivalent settings.
@@IcebergTech hmmm got it, thank you
Wait why is Bringus Studios uploading on Iceberg tech
I’ve been thinking of replacing windows shell with gamepadui so it boots directly into gamepadUI immediately within windows
Demorou eu fiz e uso como entrada o heroic game laucher ou pode usar o proprio steam boa sorte
Using Linux on my main rig for about 9 months now, I do not really have problems running the games I like. Awesome video as usual, by the way.
do you get better performance from not having windows bloatware?
@@olivermaddaford6689unfortunately it doesn't work that way when games aren't developed for linux
@@michaelmillington9444 dang, I just wanna know why pcs dont have a dedicated gaming os for better performance like consoles do
@@olivermaddaford6689 Well, yes and no. Because there are not a lot of native Linux titles. Proton is very good, but sometimes it perform slightly worse than Windows. That said, there are games that run better than they did on Windows, GTA IV is an example followed by CS:GO, Minecraft and etc.
@@olivermaddaford6689 Well, SteamOS is it, but it is new. Linux overall, and I do not use SteamOS, is way more light weight. It is the tinkering that is sometimes needed that drives people away from it, but as long as you know how to research and have 30 minutes to spare every day (for you to tinker with the OS) I think it would suit you well.
Great video as always!
But small talk about those distros that are trying to copy SteamDeck feeling
First we had "HoloISO" - which was discontinued
now there is this "ChimeraOS" - which will probably be left in 6 months
honestly as a daily Linux gamer, i rather stick to standard distros like Mint or Manjaro etc. - and just wait for official Steam OS 3.0 release from Valve :)
Your Nvidia and Intel cards will work there without any issue - bah, i myself am running now an R7 1700X with GTX 1070 on Linux Mint without any issue :/
Mint is nice
Are you running at above 60hz with multiple Monitors?
Nvidia cards tend to mess things up in this case
@@histrigaming7344it's not on Nvidia but rather on X11's architecture (though Nvidia GPUs were working pretty poorly on Wayland during the Pascal era, idk if things have changed since)
@@user-xh3nm8oe2l Yes I am still in wayland with a 1070 ti graphical issues from month to month not an issue though, and no control of the GPU sadly maybe through cli, but I haven't found much. And, most games run without issues. But pls, using Noveau instead of DKMS is just more supportive.
@@samir2zk135 haven't NVIDIA opensourced they drivers for Turing, Ampere and Lovelace anyway? Though I've been on AMD for pretty much my entire life due to Linux compatibility, and I still haven't changed my graphical server to Wayland - honestly screensharing in a lot of apps kills it for me (and also I have to use XWayland to play games and use some apps anyways, so why not use X11 for everything?).
What? Holoiso is still worked on, the dev just hasn't updated the github releases, they are still very active on their telegram and the OS still gets updates, flashing the image from the github the installer automatically will update itself apon first boot
And chimeraOS actually predates steamOS 3, it's been around for years, they just recently switched from the Debian based steamOS 2.0 to the arch based steamOS 3.0, so I'd be beyond shocked if chimeraOS ever gets abandoned, it's been going strong for years now
i know this isnt related to the video, but i do want to mention this since i think it could be an interesting video. im putting together a cheap am4 system for testing and trouble shooting, and i noticed that Zen + chips are rock bottom prices in the US. i got a ryzen 5 2600 for $35 (USD), quite a good value. would you mind taking a look at Zen +, and Zen 2 at some point? i'd love the comparison of those chips as their value continues to drop, especially since AM4 has so much potential if you want to upgrade.
Because you need to enable some flags on the launch settings for some games.
instead of this, i'm sometimes using the steamdeck itself as a pc, to try and acclimate to linux. it's not going very well. too much fiddling to get some basic stuff working.
yay! I'd love more linux content
I genuinely thought that I had clicked on a Bringus Studios video until the video actually started playing
EGS games work great for me through Lutris. You would have to set it up in desktop mode though and use a bit of terminal. Protonup-qt would also be a good idea to get Lutris specific proton-ge versions. I haven't had the best luck with ubisoft or ea store games though. (After origin was EOS'd).
A good option for both epic games and GOG is heroic. I recommend giving it a try. :)
Love this video it's simulator to a project I'm going to do by using mint cinnamon v21.1 to revive a old laptop that's bound to Windows 8 since it lacks requirements for win 10 so far it's perfect for simple task CZcams multiple tabs ECT I do plan to try older games on it just out of curiosity but I've currently lost it's charger cord 😂 and I think the old 2012 HHD could use a nice SSD in its place. Btw i hope you play with gaming on more Linux distros
Ray tracing works absolutely fine under linux. I use it with games like Control, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Dying Light 2. Ray tracing is still beta in the RADV Vulkan driver and you have to enable it by setting a variable. For DirectX 12 ray tracing Games you also have to set another variable. If you use Steam then you can change the launch options to the following:
VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr RADV_PERFTEST=rt %command%
Ooh the non-XT 6700, quick question what PSU wattage did you use?
I used my standard test PSU which is 700w, but it was pretty overkill.
@@IcebergTech I don't really want to upgrade my PSU(550w), seems like a waste, so I will stick with my rx5600xt for now.👍
I think this year might be the one I actually use Linux. I want to get a spare laptop (that isn't a crappy chromebook) and if I do I'll have a fallback with my regular windows computer. I've tried to get into it twice, but I gave up both times out of laziness/frustration.
I have 222 games installed on ChimeraOS with the following hardware:
1. CPU - 12100F
2. MB - Asrock H610 WiFi ITX
3. GPU: Power Color Radeon 6600
4. RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz CL 16
5. SSD: 2TB Intel 670p NVMe
6. PSU: Apevia 600w 80+G
7. Case: Thermaltake Core V1 ITX
Budget champion right here!
Some games do have rt support with the mesa drivers, including doom eternal
Ray tracing is currently available and was available at the point the video was released on NVIDIA GPUs. It just requires NVAPI to be enabled using an environment variable.
So what exactly are the FPS losses (or gains) going with Chimera?
I don't know enough about ChimeraOS - or Linux in general - do do any frame counting with it yet, so I can only be pretty vague. Death Stranding with FSR1 Ultra managed a locked 60 FPS on both systems, Control performed about the same on both systems (however on reflection, it also exhibits similar asset streaming issues to TLOU on Chimera), and Elden Ring seemed to perform slightly better on Windows.
It's inconsistent, most games run near 1 to 1, any difference can be chopped up to run to run variance, some games will run worse then Windows, some games (like the GTA IV example in the video) will run better then windows
The main advantage of Linux over Windows in gaming background RAM usage, and in that case there wasn't any problems on Windows so you won't see much difference
@@attilavs2 I see your point, but I will argue about "most important" thing.
I think, real benefit, is background tasks and task scheduling. Basically, just after installing smth like arch, you have zero bloatware neither from MS or trird party (hello tiktok and other useless crap like onedrive, that also in autostart in windows 11). So yea, if you wanted to, you can have clean os, that works only for games. You can do that on windows of course, but it will cost you sanity.
For EGS and GOG games on Linux, I would definitely be using the Heroic Games Launcher, as it has a lot more options when it comes to running those games on Linux. The downside with chimeraOS is that I’m fairly sure it only works on desktop mode.
Sad about missing decky and gamescope support
Interesting!!!
I wonder how this would treat an older fx 8350 system running an AMD r9 390.
I have been using Linux Mint since the start of this year, couldn't be happier.
The stress from the windows depredatory proprietary BS is gone. I'm in a better state now.
Also, for me and my ancient system, due to the better driver support thanks to the people that invest their time in these projects, i get a lot better performance in Linux.
AMD ray tracing stuff is coming in a new mesa update for linux.
edit: mesa 23.2 and RADV, expected august 2nd
5:15 I'm sorry, did you say "EGS" rather than 'Epic Games'? You abbreviated something that makes it has more syllables, lol.
Performance can be solved by RX 6800 XT or higher AMD GPU model.
4:35 unlike others? actually you can install games from other stores in any distro...
Idk whats with rdr2 since it works fine on my steam deck it must be a hardware compatabilaty issue
Yeah that was a bit odd, I haven't had issues with RDR2 either. I doubt it was a hardware issue though.
is there a noticeable performance difference compared to windows?
I've yet to do a proper side-by-side comparison, but it might be something I look at soon.
@@IcebergTech I wanna add one thing, just for the record: such distros like Chimera usually dont have bleeding edge packages and focused on a specific things, like look&feel for example. So, performance and set of supported features (like RT in proton games for example) may be different across various linux distros.
I'm not promoting to use smth different, cause something like arch is annoyingly hard to install in the first place, and arch derivative like Manjaro have same problem with "old" packages (drivers\programs), just wanted to mention that, so you know.
That being said, I can run Cyberpunk with RT on my 7900xtx with zero problems, by adding "RADV_PERFTEST=rt" in launch options. Even turning on "overdrive" mode works like "destroy my framerate" button, exactly like on windows.
@@delancre5858 Isn't chimera based on Arch? If so , it should have pretty new packages .
@@Skulka well, that not how it works, but yes, looks like chimera os indeed not using whole root updates as holo iso did. SteamOS 3 is also based on arch, but locks root and disables ability to update via arch-channels. That also was holo iso problem, cause they just wanted to "adapt" iso from valve. Chimera on the other hand is just arch with steam big picture instead, so using aur or pacman shouldn't be a problem.
So, I need to apologise for giving false information.
Hope you enjoy linux with chimeraOS or other distro, as a dualbooter the mostly does stuff on linux i will agree about there being more pains, in price of having more control and try an alternate and not mainstream desktop experience.
Quick advice also, exclusively to steam games at least, forcing proton version on the game at least to me makes games not lauching, i think steam gets confused, this at least happens a lot with external hdd's. Using proton-GE also is the better choice, when using steam as it unlocks better performance, experimental is more cutting edge but typically not as good, for apps like lutris(for multiple lauchers and crack games xd), heroic(>epic and gog), wine-ge is the better option.
yeah, leaving the proton version as deafult works for the most part. when a game is prone to crashing or has performance issues, switching to the newest proton-ge often fixes stuff in my experience
I have on my project computer Kubuntu 23.04.
Desktop Linux is still a meme.
I was surpriced how good games can run like Far Cry 6, but Diablo 4 the game runs like dog sh** in my distro. (there is maybe problem with RDNA2 cards...)
But the Linux experience was better this year than last year :3
RTX Quake works for me under Kubuntu.
Also I had raytracing by the last with us.
I’m sure I’ve answered it before but what is that case, it looks pretty sick 10:51
TDP was designed for the deck, so it make sense it wont work on another hardware config
Funny how this popped up while i was farming bl3 on my chimeraos machine
The anticheat problems are not the blame of chimera devs. Valve made anticheat compatible with Proton the reason why it doesn't work is because the devs don't want it to.
When Windows 8 launched I started experimenting a bit with Linux. I usually tried to get into it once a year or so, out of fear that Windows would continue to get even worse. Unfortunately, I'd always run into some show stopping bug or incompatibility and have to turn back to Windows.
I don't think I've tried Linux in a couple (or more) years now, because Windows 10/11 is "good enough" and I just don't have the time to figure out/troubleshoot another OS. It is nice to see that Linux is gaining traction and getting a little more game-friendly, just in case MS tries to pull another Win8. They are a fairly unpredictable company.
I do the same. I've been trying ChimeraOS for about a month. It's nice, but a lot of mods I simply cannot find a way to get working, which are a breeze on Windows by comparison. So that's what does it for me this time!
Why does the GPU report 400MHz and only 65W??
He have integrated graphic, so mangohud (software that shows fps) picked it up instead of discrete GPU. It can be changed in mangohud config, I believe. No idea where 65w come from, btw. Maybe max TDP limit or smth.
Yes, or I could have simply disabled the iGPU. I actually remembered to do so at first, but I had to reset the BIOS when I was messing around with the RAM and forgot to disable it the second time!
@@delancre5858 cheers for that.
GTA 4 in general runs well on Ryzen CPUs, even lower end ones, so I doubt the good performance here is due to Proton. DXVK (a component of proton) does improve stuttering and overall performance though, so it may be contributing.
I have a feeling that Valve will eventually release SteamOS as a full on PC operating system given the fact that this will eternally bypass any problems Windows could create in the future and was the explicit reason SteamOS was created for the Steam Machine in the first place. And if it was the case I'd be all for it so long as it could run a web browser smoothly.
Run the anticheat as a start item on boot. There are a few ways you can go about it.
There are many excellent Distros if you want a more PC centric experience. Like Linux Mint which is what I'd recommend to any new user who came from Windows.
may i suggest you move beyond the realm of mortal gamers and finally buy a high refresh panel? your gaming chops will thank you
11 minutes nice
Weird, yt notified me for the 1060 video as if you had uploaded it again instead of this one rn.
Klevv RAM is so beatiful.
From my own experience with the Deck Linux is good but has flaws. EAC is becoming more accessible in Linux lately, Smite and Dead By Daylight are notable games that are working now but some games remain inaccessible.
A benefit to Linux as well for gaming is that most Linux distros tend to be super light compared to the hog that is Windows. It's a shame there was shaky stuff you encountered with the console PC.
I do wonder if this could be fixed by using a different distro or if valve finally releases steam os 3.0
I have Horizon Zero Dawn running on both my PC and Steam Deck, both use Linux. I have the steam version but I'm sure the EGS can work with a little tinkering. Technically Fortnite could work on Linux if Epic enabled the anticheat support, however I suspect they aren't in a rush to get their games on a competitors device which is a shame.
RT has just gotten a limited implementation in Linux
The deck can do doom eternal RT, and a general RT implementation isn't far off, maybe two months?
Errr on the Nvidia Linux drivers RT and DLSS has been working for over 12 months.
However you'd want to be running something like a normal non Wayland desktop distro like PopOS! where System76 provide kernel and GPU drivers via their own update channel.
That's a pretty nice experience.
you have to follow this up on budget hardware vs high end and actually see what os wins numbers vs numbers
If I'm not mistaken i think Ubuntu like few months ago added support for Nvidia GPUs , why not try that
The whole fuss with Nvidia on Linux is a result of the fact that they have two set of drivers: proprietary closed-source drivers directly from Nvidia (which still tend to be worse than the Windows ones) that usually are not shipped as default on most distros and open-source noveau drivers that are hugely flawed (you would be lucky to just run games on them with more modern cards). On top of that there is much more troubleshooting required with issues like Wayland or hardware video acceleration even with proprietary drivers. That's one of the reasons why I upgraded to Radeon. The only advantage of Nvidia drivers in comparison to Radeon ones on Linux is that Nvidia has a GUI options menu, but in my opinion directly editing config files are the way to go.
My windows 10 pc upgraded itself to windows 11 without me even knowing or asking my permission. I'm staring to really hate this always online Microsoft policy. Also my xbox basically doesn't work IF internet is bad , and the other time it kicked me out of the game without warning just to update the OS
I know in five months we hate, but it's worth noting that GTA IV recently got an update that made it, I believe, smoother on windows. So how much was Proton is actually hard to say.
This is definitely promising. But we can't go without a desktop gui. Until we get the stability and game support of steamvr (also nvidia support ofc) with a conventional desktop gui for general uses, we will never see mass adoption.
I have R5 5600G + 32GB + GRPO X080 *( Rx 6700 mining version no display output needed new bios and registry hack to work) I use mainboard HDMI
Proton and wine made Linux such a good operating system, some Adobe products work through wine as well.
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Windows has been pissing me off so much lately. From its usability to tracking issues and finally force installing shovelware.( Microsoft Copilot) only issue for me is i use windows only for gaming and i play exclusively online titles. If that experience becomes super smooth then im sold.
No loss there. The 6700XT and RT don't get along too well as is. RT in a game like Doom Eternal? Passable. RT in Control on a 6700XT isn't a great experience at 1080p let alone 1440p. Source: 6700XT owner.
Running Chimera OS on a matx build with amd 5700, 7800 xt , 64gigs of fury ram and a 2tb corsair displaying on a viewsonic 3440 x 1440 75hz and plays RDR2 on mostly high and ultra settings at a locked 75fps. Couldn't be happier. Yeah there are a few games that I cant play but thats ok. To play rockstar games and probably others with launchers just install and load for the first time in desktop mode. Easier to get logged in to all your accounts. Also add proton GE 8-20+. One of those will get most games running and running well.