Just a note, when refunding on steam, you can refund to your original payment method. It doesn't need to go back to your steam wallet.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Oh yeah, that might be an errror

@felixfourcolor

14 күн бұрын

I wonder why many people don't know that. When you ask for a refund the webform explicitly asks where you want to refund to. It's not like it refunds to steam wallet by default and you have to click some weird button to ask for refund to credit card.

@xXRealXx

13 күн бұрын

@@MichaelNROH "might be an error"?! It is!

@MichaelNROH

13 күн бұрын

@@xXRealXx Not necessarily. It depends on if you already had wallet funds or not. From personal experience, I usually bought games with Steam Wallet funds, which is why it's that way in the video. It is true that you can refund it if you purchase it directly yes

@todesziege

13 күн бұрын

@@felixfourcolor I'm pretty sure that initially you could only refund to the wallet. Many people probably just assume it is still like that.

I now no longer have a Windows PC/Laptop since, Steam, Proton and Nobara have made everything so easy.

@VoyivodaFTW1

16 күн бұрын

Same

@ivoryowl

16 күн бұрын

Never heard of Nobara. What's special about it?

@FlameForgedSoul

15 күн бұрын

@@ivoryowl It has specific kernel level alterations and preinstalls geared specifically towards gaming. Be warned: it's a definitive YMMV distro. It kept locking our screen up post installs so We abandoned it.

@blakeshively

8 күн бұрын

I love Nobara! Such a solid distro

As a gamer and a Linux user for 15+ years , when I started my transition games were mostly unplayable and over time more & more games started playing nice. Today any game with anti-cheat that requires ring-0 access to my system it essential get blacklisted in my book and I never look at them again, they are essential malware. There is no reason for something with this much access on my system.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

Exactly. If they want to put a process running at the kernel level, they'd better make it at least source available or it isn't going to be installed on my system EVER.

@Fiveward

16 күн бұрын

Same here. Installing Riot's anti-cheat requires so much trust in that company. Even if you can manage to trust them hackers can still target it like what happened with Genshin.

@lainamitclaire

16 күн бұрын

@@Fiveward Genshin's anticheat was not bypassed and used as a backdoor though. An old version of the anti-cheat was packaged with alleged primogem generator programs in Russia to fool users into thinking it was legitimate by using an already verified dll file. This has literally happened for two decades now.

@michaelhoffmann2891

14 күн бұрын

Very much this. What's the point of giving Microsoft the boot when you let other vendor's spyware in on your system through a different door?

@Masonicon

11 күн бұрын

Speaking of Anti-cheat, Easy anti-cheat make Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 unplayable for me

I saw a Reddit post a while ago titled along the lines of "Gaming on Linux has made me play better games". I hate to "judge" the things people like and enjoy, but I'm glad to see Linux breaks people out of products designed to addict you, lessen your security, handicap your hardware, squeeze as much money as possible out of you, abuse FOMO, and a plethora of other things.

Crazy how good Linux gaming has gotten since the last time I tried it. Removed Windows from my system a few days ago :)

@MRDeu

16 күн бұрын

It's been almost 3 years since i migrated entirely to Linux and it's been almost a year and a half since i eliminated dual boot, it doesn't make sense.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

​@MRDeu I literally just got my first laptop with no OS, the Framework Laptop 16, after using a dual-boot with Windows 10 then 11 but actually booting into Windows. My Framework Laptop 16 ONLY runs Linux, and I just used fwupd to update the UEFI, no Windows required. Any company that offically supports Linux and has modern features like a 16 : 10 screen is higher on my list than a comparable Windows only laptop. Sadly, many Linux first laptops don't have touch screens or even 16 : 10 screens, but that is slowly changing.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Congrats

@reikanou-issen

15 күн бұрын

so, what next distro(s) are you planning to hop into? 😂

@lexcelius6921

15 күн бұрын

​​​@@reikanou-issenI mean if you're Distro Hopping you probably set you're Boot Partition to 1/4th or 1/8th of you're Boot Drive and thus you don't have to Wipe the Whole Drive when Distro Hopping just The Boot Partition. Honestly you do the same with Windows. In Partition Wizard just Shrink the Partition and reformat the Rest of the Drive.

Linux changed my gaming addiction to programming addiction 🐧

@quinniwe

15 күн бұрын

Gosh, this happened to me a year ago after I learnt that you can customise GNOME (and Linux in general). Now I'm learning User Interface design, and using Hyprland as my Window Manager.

@nsawatchlistbait289

13 күн бұрын

I want that. Tell me how

@javajav3004

10 күн бұрын

@@nsawatchlistbait289 just start

If you value gaming in general, never support a la carte subscriptions like game pass.

Windows games were made for Windows. Windows games are not supposed to run on Linux. We made it work anyway. So yeah, hiccups are to be expected, but we made so many games just work. That's impressive work.

@thejackimonster9689

7 күн бұрын

Always remember that Wine/Proton is 30 years of active development. It's insanely impressive. I mean if a Windows game doesn't work on Linux these days, I'm not thinking it's impossible but maybe it works next month.

I hold a similar opinion now. I used to hate that some games refused to make their games compatible with linux, especially due to anticheats. Nowadays, I just don't play them. The only situation in which I play these kinds of games is when a friend wants to play together. In that case I just boot up windows, which happens quite rarely nowadays. Ironically, 90% of the time I boot up windows is because of MS Office, not games.

@docopoper

16 күн бұрын

MS Office is definitely still the gold standard. If you haven't tried it though I really recommend OnlyOffice. I've been very impressed with how clean and well designed it is.

@fearsmasher1299

16 күн бұрын

Open Office or Softmake Office are free and have great compatibilty with MS Office. If I really need to make sure compatability is great, I use the free online version of MS Office.

@blllk8189

Күн бұрын

my guy ms office is just web apps. go to the website

Thanks for all your gaming on Linux updates! These are my favorites along with your videos on how to get stuff like Davinci Resolve and other annoying apps running well on Linux. I still dual boot for Destiny and other live service games because it's a way for my friends and I to still hang out and catch up with each other. One day I'm sure we'll find something else that's more Linux friendly, and I can finally stick with Linux full time.

@rhiss2325

16 күн бұрын

@dreaper5813 How are you forced into playing quality games if generally most games already do work on linux? There is so much slop you could play right now on linux with proton. Also, a user who is tech savvy enough to be able to install any linux distro, could just install a debloated version of windows ltsc without any of M$ crap, and have more choices in what they can play. I agree on helldivers, it's pretty fun with friends, but it's pretty buggy/unstable and runs like crap both on windows and linux.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

​@dreaper5813Heck, Riot has been owned by Tencent, a Chinese company, since 2010 (or maybe 2009, I'm not sure). No wonder they feeblely attempt to justify installing a rootkit to play two games. That doesn't fly and wouldn't fly ever for me. I never support games that actively block Wine/Proton. If they don't officially support Linux or the Steam Deck but don't try to screw over Linux gamers and let them play, I'm fine with that. My problem is when they don't.

Steam Deck was my go-to way of become Linux gamer Anyone else that played PC games on Linux via Steam Deck?

Since a Level-0 anticheat is running in the background all the time, probably collecting data aswell and sending it to the company behind it, wouldn't it be a major privacy-invasion which should be possible to ban such software from people's PC's by (at least in Europe) strengthen the GDPR? I mean having a driver installed on my system without my consent, would be very creepy, if I had no idea that it's running all the time. 🤔

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

The problem is that you technically consent to it. Even if Vanguard started taking more measures on your system like blocking certain hardware, you technically agreed to it. The EU will only interact, if there is actual evidence of a market power benefitting from it directly.

The ONLY way I'd play a game with kernel level anti-cheat is to have a separate PC (or at least duel booted) that is ONLY used for those games and absolutely nothing personal.. I'm lucky though, that I don't tend to play online competitive games that are the targets for anti-cheat and am very impressed with how far Linux gaming has come in the last few years. I'm with you in that before I buy a game, I make sure it works on Linux and support games that don't try to purposely not work on Linux. I have a decent sized game catalog, so I don't need to play all the new stuff. :)

@hotrodjones74

16 күн бұрын

Same here, I have too many games in my Steam library anyhow. I got them for dirt cheap on the Russian steam market when I lived there. On the seasonal sales some games were cheaper than a beer at the bar.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

The only way I'd even let it on ANY computer I own is to have the source publicly available and also audited by a group of trusted cyber security researchers. I think Vanguard even disallows VMs and dual booting. Guess what WON'T be on any computer I own?

I keep my GamePass in my Xbox Series X and my Steam account in linux, best of both worlds

Last night we set up our VERY first Linux-based PC with the sole purpose of media and gaming (thanks to your how-to). Tonight, we game. Very much looking forward to it and the freedom from M$.

I mean, it's also bad advice to give one company near total control over the desktop marketplace but here we are. Competition is good, until that competition is against the dominant OS market player, then people default to their Stockholm syndrome.

Its sad to see some notable titles being excluded from linux because of the anticheat. I'm hoping in a few years these issues will get sorted out considering the amazing state of Proton and the growing interest in linux

I can relate but since I do this basically since the Windows 7 days, I feel like I actually missed on quite a bunch of games that I would have enjoyed on PC normally. Oh well... there's still my second drive with Windows on it for those VR games and other than that, I mostly play Mario Kart and Splatoon online anyway.

@xrafter

16 күн бұрын

Isn't splatoon dead?

@MegaManNeo

16 күн бұрын

@@xrafter Why should it? Splatoon 3 is still actively played by many many people and Splatoon 1 is back online thanks to the Pretendo project. Also some folks still play S2.

@xrafter

16 күн бұрын

@@MegaManNeo Good. There are other splaton version it seems for the nentido switcher

@MegaManNeo

16 күн бұрын

@@xrafter Yes, Splatoon 2 and 3 are for Switch.

@xrafter

16 күн бұрын

@@MegaManNeo Excellent. I thought the game died with the servers for 3DS.

03:45 A wild Pirate spotted. May the chant commence. 7 7 7

Great video! As a Linux gamer myself, I still think it would be better if more games would be available but I also noticed that finding alternatives hasn't been as difficult as people think. There are a lot of great games out there which work great on Linux. Maybe there will be a valid solution to fight cheating without interfering with peoples privacy or control over their own system. So we can get more cross-compatible competitive online games.

For me the writing is on the wall, October 19th 2025. When windows 10 goes eol so does my use of windows.

And if your hardware doesn't havre a linux app to configure it, don't be afraid to setup a minimal windows vm. I had that issue with my aio cooler

Great video, a question, for a dell 7490 laptop, fedora gnome or kde? I will follow the steps in your video to save battery.

@MichaelNROH

11 күн бұрын

Pure preference. From the battery aspect, they are pretty similar

@ricardo_vergara

10 күн бұрын

@@MichaelNROH Thanks for answering, the next thing would be, what browser do you use?

do you have any gaming channel where you stream games, Micheal?

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Theoretically yes, but I'm currently not streaming

Nice vídeo Michael.

I game on arch. I use BSPWM as my go to WM while gaming while Hyprland when I work since my GPU crashes 1 out of 10 times on Hyprland.

I followed the same path quite a few years ago. Dual boot became annoying, most things I wanted seemed to be on linux and I rebooted less and less. I used to reboot just to update windows, but its probably a couple of years since I did that. I had vmware player for non-game windows applications I wanted, but that had some problems a couple of years ago and I never needed it enough to fix it.

The issue with using probability for anti cheat is that you will catch the players that are really good at your game and end up going pro. You never want to ban someone based on a probability

@MichaelNROH

5 күн бұрын

Not really. The probability method that I'm talking about doesn't span across the whole game, like calculating headshot percentages and all that. What I mean is stuff like, how likely is it to kill people 2 seconds after spawning across the whole map with a gun and this sort of thing. Or in the case of CS2, how likely is it, that someone fires a sniper rifle (scout) in some burst mode (which is technically impossible). It's about detecting the cheaters that are cheating as obvious as possible, and not just banning someone who has a high kill count

Gaming in Zorin here

6:48 yeah and you can even spoof hwid so instead of monitor it will show as like phone or something like that.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Yep

I just played a round of Battlefield 1 multiplayer on Arch and had no issues. Is the new anti-cheat being used yet?

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

1 actually might not have it yet. Mixed posts online, but it seems like it's still on Fairplay

My games list hit critical mass a few months ago when nearly all of them were linux compatible in some form, did my full switch to Linux Mint LTS and unplugged my Win 10 ssd. The number of game crashes have dropped to nearly zero compared to my Win 10 experience. 🙂👍

So question... I've found that with nvidia and intel graphics cards in my laptop... the effort required to switch between graphics just to play 30 minutes of games... It's either use prime to select nvidia and have it all being rendered with the nvidia card.. OR using a rather convoluted CLI to launch a program in order to use my nvidia card on my games... I know, I could JUST edit every launcher I have for my games.. but man that is not a smooth experience. If it was my desktop and I only needed the one video card... battery life on my laptop drops to about an hour running the nvidia card over the xe graphics...

Linux gaming has come a long way and turned out really good. I remember back in 2012 playing windows games was a literal pain the butt. The fact that now you can run steam games and install steam almost without difficulties depending on the distro gives you lots of hope. Also lots of games runs even better on Linux right now. I was honestly surprised by Fallout 4, Skyrim and Doom Eternal. Even newer games like Palworld or Monster Hunter Iceborn. They can't ignore the most important fact here, which is that u're still buying them legally on Linux.

@quinniwe

15 күн бұрын

Steam works on every single distro completely without issues, because of the Steam Linux Runtime, which runs Steam in an Ubuntu container no matter the distro. This makes it more secure than the MacOS and Windows versions, as everything is ran with OS-Level virtualisation

@panxogaming1782

14 күн бұрын

@@quinniwe True enough but some distros require you to do a little digging before installing it. Good luck trying "sudo pacman -S steam" without the multilib enabled for example. For new users it can be an issue.

I avoid dual booting with VFIO, but I barely boot my Windows VM anymore. Only played on it for Halo: Infinite. I used to manage my iPhone with it, but I switched to an old MacBook for that.

Pure Distro Linux phones not far behind too, as right now there usable not on everything but it's getting there.

@quinniwe

15 күн бұрын

Linux phones should be completely fine as they have Waydroid which can run a whole Android GUI and apps in. And they also have the beautiful GNOME-based Desktop Environment, PhoSH

@ZaberfangX

15 күн бұрын

@@quinniwe agreed but still some need abit more work they still useable

how about gog? indiegala? and other places there is also like a million amazing browser games like madworld or good old motherload

I've started using linux with Mint about a month ago. It's so far been a mostly positive than a negative experience. There are still issues with some games and software but I will still continue dual booting until somehow anticheats for competivie games will be working with linux.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

​I've seen your response to several other comments on this video but I still agree with ever word you said. Don't support these companies. Support those who at least try to make their games work with Proton or even the Steam Deck instead.

@raptor4211

16 күн бұрын

@dreaper5813 Tbh, most of the AAA games I bought were couple of years ago. I didn't know anything about linux or if gaming was possible back then until someordinarygamers released his "delete windows today" video. Now that Linux gaming has become mostly compatible, I kinda feel bad that I have to switch back to windows just to play the unsupported titles. The only reason these massive AAA companies don't support Linux is because the labor to make it possible isn't worth it for a small percentage of users compared to the majority of users being on windows. The only way we can convince these companies to support us is to get more people to switch to Linux which could takes years depending on how bad the updates ruin the os. Also, the kernel level anticheat makes it impossible to monitor the private and secure Linux kernel. If those two things can be fixed, it will be final nail in the coffin for gaming on windows.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

@@raptor4211 Iagree with Muthar completely. Windows is also spyware and adware; it been that way since Windows 8 and Windows 8.1's Smart Search feature. As for your second paragraph, these big AAA companies not supporting Linux has NOTHING to do with not being able to port their games; Proton can do that for them with minimal work. The problem is these CEOs and other executives do understand why users are leaving Windows for Linux; heck, they may be paid by Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they were.

@raptor4211

16 күн бұрын

@cameronbosch1213 I haven't seen any proof of CEOs or other executives being paid my MS. As for the anti cheat issue, I'll be a bit more specific. For example, Easy anti cheat isn't a kernel level anti cheat, which is why games like helldivers2, battlebit, apex legends, insurgency sandstorm etc work with no issues on linux. The issue here is the anti cheats for games such as Tarkov, Rainbow 6, Bf1/5/2042, LoL, CoD are rootkits, which require full access to the kernel from boot. Now I don't know much about linux in depth on how it's kernel designed but what I've seen is that these rootkits were designed to read the windows kernel. Even though wine and Proton do convert that windows code to linux, that action triggers the rootkit anticheat to ban because of that conversion. However, you are right about the devs not caring about the linux users. But that's because they are busy prioritizing with microtransactions, battle passes, and constant content updates. Their executives don't see worth in supporting linux under their anticheat since it costs them money and time to reconfigue an anticheat for a small user base that uses linux. Even the latest LoL anti-cheat update had the devs state that the amount of work they would have to do only to get around 800 player increase doesn't warrant the linux support. I really wish it can be easy for wine to convert it and work seamlessly but I'm not a genius linux guru. So I wouldn't even know how much work would it take to add linux compatibility for the rootkits.

What distro do you use? 😊

Is there no way to play Valorant on linux .. I am only stopping switching to debian cause of that I had boot pendrive with debian .

@MichaelNROH

11 күн бұрын

Valorant is a Windows exlusive game. There is no other platform it currently works on, since it needs the Microsoft NT Kernel driver (Anti Cheat) Vanguard

Now, I'm interested in something. I have a GOG Game being Monkey Island 1 Special Edition(the Remake). For about a year, I've been trying Lutris, DosBox, and even this newer Heroic Launcher. I can never get that single game launched on any Linux OS and it drives me nuts. I am someone who uses both a custom, debloated Windows OSs and Linux Mint OS on seperate drives and seperate computer units. Now, I don't play competitive shooters. I enjoy fantasy games like Elder Scrolls, Star Wars, Zelda, etc. But, I enjoy this video including your other videos on this topic of gaming in Linux. For me, gaming was never an issue cause I use seperate computers or even just consoles to play any game. For me, gaming on Linux has always been more difficult for over a decade until recently. Steam Deck coming out has made it way, WAY better. But, I'm still waiting on these point and click like this certain version of Monkey Island or other niche games I enjoy along with debugging programs I use in Windows for Window machines to get better before I fully switch to Linux.

@PainterVierax

16 күн бұрын

There is a Play on Linux script for this remake of the secret of monkey island, you might want to check it.

eac doesn't ban you if you are in a virtual machine. You just need to change some setting in your xml file.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

But it could in the future and that's the problem. Getting your main banned is not good

I've tried to switch off dual booting, to the kvm/qemu VM , and i've managed with help of 1 random guy that i found on reddit, make not just a gpu passtrough (it was ez for me personally), but the whole "PC passtrough". In short, Fortnite doesn't allow you to play under virtual machine, and i were kicked out without VM modifications while launching the match. After few tweaks, every device been shown in task manager is been named properly, just like all my real stuff is. And i were able to play fortnite without issues, the full match, but there is risk of being banned due to bypassing anticheat. I kinda reccomend it to do, only if you have 2 gpu's (or atleast 1 real gpu, and 1 gpu off the CPU), if only 1 gpu - dont bother, use dual boot.

@cybernit3

16 күн бұрын

So if you run Windows 10/11 within a VM to play a multiplayer game that requires anticheat and also have a tweak that lies saying you are not using a VM it will work no problem even with valorant? This tweak is with in the VM or run some program to do that? This is sort of all new to me and wondering about this. Right now I usually run Windows 11 but thinking of installing linux. One game I play tanki online they only ask to run anti-cheat in competions events not for general public matches and runs thru the browser. Thank you for explaining about this.

@G1esas

16 күн бұрын

​@@cybernit3 Well, i'm not valorant player, for alot of reasons, so i can't assist you within valorant anticheat which is kernel stuff. In linux, exist QEMU/KVM virtualmachine, and GUI named something like virtmanager. In simple terms, i've tweaked my yaml config of entire virtual machine, in that way, that is passedtrough my entire processor and other devices. (It doesn't mean that linux can't use atleast some of processor while VM is running, linux supposedly working fine with these conditions). So in summary, it's just a cleverly-adjusted config. Altough, during usage of it, I had 1 peculiar bug that was spreaded across all games, i can't describe exactly what it was, but sometimes game would just "run poorly for no reason". So beware of that thing actually might happening. And if you're just starting with linux, dont rush too much with VM without knowing basic's of linux interactions versus windows's. And don't immidiatley seek for "pre-configured VM with anticheat bypass", because it's really requires kinda personal steps to do

@SirRFI

16 күн бұрын

> only if you have 2 gpu's I assume a laptop with iGPU and dGPU would be fine then?

@Umbralogy

16 күн бұрын

@@cybernit3 nope valorant was patched within 3 months. It used to work but now it doesn't. Same with fortnite.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

The problem is, that you can never really abstract your VM to look like a native machine, as Anti Cheats might try to access resources that are being reserved by the host. As soon as there is some weird hardware combination, like an odd number of cores or not all cores perform like they should, then you might still get banned

I don't think I'll game on Linux until we get a good voltage curve editor (like Afterburner) and gpu fan control. My Ampere gpu gets pretty hot otherwise.

@sanjay59741

13 сағат бұрын

Try Tuxlocker. But read the document first if your GPU is supported and the features you are after and dual boot to try out maybe. I am using it for my GPU.

Micahel, do you still use Hard Drives on Linux? Thanks

@MichaelNROH

11 күн бұрын

For storage and as long as they work yes. For the main drive no. HDDs are pretty slow nowadays

@TomMAnderson87

10 күн бұрын

@@MichaelNROH Do you use SSD instead?

Another 303 user! ;-) Love that mouse. But: I also switched to Linux for good a little while back and even went for endeavour, which is supposed to be harder than others (arch in general is). It is true, I find it more difficult at times than Ubuntu, but it is manageable. Thank you for mentioning piper. I have used that way back when I first tried to switch a couple of years back and support wasn't great back then, but now both my mice work perfectly (305 and 303).

If you think going the seperare pc route is best then go ahead. I recommend it, mutahar does it. Juat dont go console. They are underpowered just as bad as kernel level anti cheat with their constant shift to subs plus lets not forget the subscription to pay online.

which browser do you use?

dual booting is a mess sometimes. like using Linux on main and windows second hand. like windows update waiting. every. single. time.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

If EA makes The Sims Project Rene / The Sims 5 use EA anti-cheat, I'm dumping them for good. That would be the final straw. I don't play any of their other games anyway. Ubisoft has only one good game that isn't on Steam and runs well on Linux (it's on the Epic Games Store), but it can be installed with the Heroic Games Launcher and works well with Proton. Now they should have put it on Steam, but at least it's playable. Now all of these first person shooters with anti-cheat either deliberately configured not to support Linux or that actively blocks Linux gamers, that I would never touch. Finally, any rootkit that requires kernel-level access (ring 0) and that basically blocks dual-booting and running in a VM I won't install even if it worked on Linux. I think you know which one I'm talking about, and it's so much worse because of who owns it.

Some of the games I mainly want to play are battlefield 2042 and the new MW2. However, the way the games are going (mostly call of duty), I may not want to play them anymore.

@cadywelp235

6 күн бұрын

working on installing Linux on my machine, bf2042 is the only real reason I'm dual booting

There's one reason why I don't play in Linux yet, and has nothing to do with games: I can get everything working, except my Elite Series controllers back paddles via Bluetooth on Steam. I have 3 weeks off soon and hopefully time to look into that. 😅

I need some video editing softwares on linux

@notjustforhackers4252

16 күн бұрын

Lightworks, DaVinci Resolve, Cinelerra GG, Kdenlive, Blender, Shotcut, HitFilm Express, OpenShot........... take your pick.

@GugureSux

15 күн бұрын

Davinci. Shotcut. Just about any few years old Windows app via Bottles or VM.

@prasenjitnayak_

15 күн бұрын

@@GugureSux wht about kednlive, I Heard it

7:28 yeah, that sounds like a deal they made with Geforce Now

I had a dual booted system with windows 11 and Mint for a long time as well, however, after learning that Microsoft will put an end to the Windows Mixed Reality service (and VR was the sole reason I still had a dual boot), I decided to ditch Windows fpr good and try to make work VR in a brand new partition I created of Arch to completely replace Windows. I already got a glimpse of VR working on Linix, since I was able to install the Monado driver in my Mint, however, I couldn't find a way to play steam games there (because the latest mint has the 22nd version of Ubuntu). But, who knows? Maybe arch will make everything work and the rest of my games might work better as well!

@MichaelNROH

14 күн бұрын

Valve is working on VR at the moment. I guess there will be some changes later this year if their development pace continues

It has gotten so good now. I'm on Fedora and things are almost perfect. Close enough, anyway. And I prefer it for running emulators and basically everything else. Gnome is hella polished, the system is stable and solid.. My Steam copy of Halo Master Chief Collection works.. I'm a happy camper.

So what is the optimal Linux distribution to switch to nowdays, for a Windows 11 gaming PC with nvidia ?

@necuz

16 күн бұрын

People say that distro doesn't matter, but for gaming it's good to go with one that's tailored to that, since it will have better defaults. Nobara, CachyOS, Bazzite.

@perperikis5501

16 күн бұрын

@@necuz Ah thanks, I was thinking about a more mainstream one though, since usage is game-centric but not exclusively that. I know that Ubuntu is not ideal for a game-centric PC, especially for nvidia gpus. I wonder if Fedora is the better choice among popular distros (e.g. if it plays well with nvidia drivers + steam).

@necuz

16 күн бұрын

@@perperikis5501 Nobara is literally just Fedora with a bunch of fixes/tweaks specifically for gaming.

@DDracee

16 күн бұрын

personally i prefer arch based distros to follow what steamos is doing (90% of the gaming advancements on linux came straight from valve specifically for steamos), being a rolling distro your core packages are always on the latest versions to reap any performance benefits possible and the other thing to consider is nvidia drivers can be a pain to install, so a distro that can handle that for you is pretty great so because of those reasons im rolling endeavorOS, been eyeing cachyOS too but waiting until its a little less new

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

If you have an Nvidia RTX GPU (or 16 series GPU), try EndeavourOS if you're fine with Arch and using the command-line to update your system. It still has a GUI installer, a live environment with KDE Plasma 6 (but you can choose pretty much any major DE at install time), and Nvidia drivers as a boot option. If you don't want to use the command-line as often, you can try something like Pop!_OS once the COSMIC update is out (give it a few months for it to happen), Linux Mint Cinnamon, or even OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. If you're running a GTX 9 or 10 series GPU, you're kind of in between a rock and a hard place, as once Nvidia stops updating those with the official propietary drivers, you'll be on your own, as the open source NVK/Nouveau drivers can only support them if Nvidia opens their reclocking support, which may never happen. In that case, your best bet may be buying a new GPU for a desktop or a new laptop with something newer unfortunately. AMD or Intel GPUs should have no problem as Mesa perfectly supports anything remotely recent.

GTA 4 runs on my low end crap Fedora KDE around 30 - 40 fps on 1080p medium with Proton GE and DXVK. 2x time improvements than Windows.

I like keeping updated with Linux gaming. I hope that someday it will be viable for me, since i don't really like the direction Windows is heading. My main problem is that i play a MMO that has an anit-cheat that is not compatible, a gamepad i use that only has a windows app to customize it, and i really like Minecraft and some of the people i play with only use the Bedrock version. But, i am hopeful that eventually with the steam deck encouraging compatibility with games that Linux might eventually be a good mainstream gaming OS.

@thejackimonster9689

7 күн бұрын

I think there are ways to play Minecraft Bedrock on Linux as well. Which MMO?

Just need nvidia to catch up, 20fps less on linux in most games with my 4070 Ti on latest drivers

I don't use Game Pass, but there are 4 games that I have on Windows that are holding me back from jumping to Linux for good, and 3 begin with with the words 'Forza Horizon' and the other is Minecraft (Bedrock Edition). I bought them all from the Microsoft Store back in 2021, and launch via the Xbox app. I play them all online with a friend's autistic son, so they are very important to me and I'm not dumping Windows yet, no matter how much I'd like to... and if I have a Windows partition to install those few games, then why not use it for all of them? Ironically, I only really started using Linux as I do game dev as a hobby (mostly using Godot for 2D and Unity for 3D), and wanted to make sure my games worked okay for Linux users too. I've tried quite a few distros but stuck with Pop_OS. I love it.

@MichaelNROH

9 күн бұрын

Having bought a game in the Microsoft store is a bummer yeah. I also got a copy of Sea of Thieves which I can't play, even if it would work. The Bedrock edition is playable btw. You run it with the pocket edition which sounds bad, but it's the exact same version as it dynamically adjusts to the system

I see a gameplay of Valorant, Apex Legens and more games with anti-cheat, is that on windows or linux ?

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

Has to be Windows if it's Valorant. But that game and now LoL will never be again allowed on any system until Riot/Tencent discloses the source code of the rootkit they use in those games. Apex Legends works with Linux for now as EAC works with Linux (as well as BattleEye and Denovo anti-tamper) if they're configured to do so. That could change if EA puts their sloppy solution on that breaks even Windows compatibility.

@overbytesfr

16 күн бұрын

@@cameronbosch1213 Okay I see, thanks 👌

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Valorant were old recordings yes. Apex is a mix of Linux and also old recordings

Playing Minecraft on ubuntu felt more smoother than on windows. Does anyone agree? And for office related tasks, i feel ms office is convenient to use. Is there anything similar to ms office on linux.

What about Skyrim modding on Linux?

@OraOraOra

16 күн бұрын

Most of the time I'm using "Bottles", I'll just create a bottle and install the Modmanager there, then I create a symlink from my game folder into the bottle and now the Modmanager can see the game to mod, just like on Windows. Sounds a bit weird.. but works fine.

@necuz

16 күн бұрын

I've never managed to get MO2 to open Nexus links for automatic download and installation, but that's about the only issue.

@Daiarthaine65

16 күн бұрын

Nolvus doesn't work, but otherwise, it's doable.

@Robotta

16 күн бұрын

I don't know why KZread removed my comment, but Vortex mod manager does work. They recently released a new app called Nexus Mods Apps that natively supports Linux, It's on their github currently and in an early state.

why don't you have a patreon?

Hey valve, gimme SteamOS ISO already

@gherbetto

10 күн бұрын

Have you tried googling “steamos GitHub”?

@thejackimonster9689

7 күн бұрын

Theoretically you shouldn't need SteamOS since there are a lot of good Linux distributions out there to choose from. But I assume it would help if gamers had a company like Valve behind such a distribution for PC. They probably wait until they think support for Nvidia GPUs is reliable enough for their audience since they can't control what PC configuration it gets installed on.

Sehr gutes Video. Bin mit dem C64 und anschließend mit einem 386 SX25 groß geworden. Dos 5.0 und recht schnell, 6.22 und Windooof 3.1. War eigentlich immer zufrieden.... aber nachdem 8.1 raus kam, war ich unzufrieden und ich habe Linux ausprobiert, natürlich nur im Dual Boot oder auf virtueller Ebene. Nachdem Windoof 10 raus kam, habe ich mehr und mehr mit Linux experimentiert und ca. 70 Distros ausprobiert. Windows 11 habe ich ca. ein Jahr benutzt und bin mittlerweile Windooof frei. Im Moment benutze ich PopOS zu zocken und Manjaro im Dual Boot zum Arbeiten. Für den Notfall habe ich noch eine externe SSD mit Windows 11, aber hauptsächlich nutze ich nur noch Linux. Mittlerweile nutze ich neben PopOS und Manjaro, auch noch eine dritte SSD mit Batocera, damit ich meine Retro Games unbeschwert zocken kann...

Been using linux at home since 2000. I did not play many many games. Then, at the end of 2021, proton got my attention, and I started playing. Your take on games using ring 0 'anti cheat' mirrors mine. Its just a matter of time till one the these companies are hacked and the hackers figure out how to use the 'anti cheat' as a back door.... With good instrumentation in games, along with a good stats package, it should be possible to find cheaters without all the garbage vendors like to throw at us.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

Um, Minecraft has done server side anti-cheat for for years with success. There's no longer an excuse.

linux is so fragmented the users will have very different exp from each other, i use arch btw and the gaming exp has been better than on windows especially after the mesa 23.1 update and turn off shader pre cache. I also have personal tweaks and kernel (BORE cpu sched) tweaks here and there to make things snappy, basically low latency tweaks. I can't imagine going back and face all those ads, intrusive background services and strange stutter while gamin

Linux is getting popular but I still can't migrate from windows because my dad is a windows fan.

So wait, does D2 run well in KVM?

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

Idk. Why support that company?

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Probably not, as the Anti Cheat will likely detect the VM.

What is that game at 0:52 ????

@MichaelNROH

5 күн бұрын

That would be an old stream of the Battlefield 2042 Beta

For gamepass, the cloud is not that bad. If you have a stable and fast internet, it's quite close to the speeds you get on native. ( around the same speeds with efficient VMs )

@MichaelNROH

14 күн бұрын

Latency is the main problem. On Xcloud, you are using controller which is not as noticable as with a mouse, but the bitrates and increased price are just not worth it in my opinion

PURGE... linux ftw... support from a longtime linux user every time you cave to corporate demands you support those tactics... resist lol

The only reason i still have windows is cuz parents, which i consider okay enough reason to tolerate it. Plus its win10 so no ads (yet)

@justanotherstanczyk

16 күн бұрын

You haven't gotten the full screen upgrade to windows 11 add yet? Must be nice.

@arnabbiswasalsodeep

16 күн бұрын

@@justanotherstanczyk its more cuz my laptop from 2015/16 doesnt have TPU, making it incompatible with the upgrade cuz "its not secure"

@GugureSux

15 күн бұрын

@@justanotherstanczyk Win10 IoT LTSC Enterprise edition + OOSU10. You're welcome.

I still stay on windows it has way better Nvidia drivers and i use the ltsc verison which means updates are only security based

I played about half of Detroit Become Human on PopOS and it ran wayyyy better than Windows 11

@quinniwe

15 күн бұрын

I played Death Stranding on my GTX 1650 laptop running Arch BTW at a solid 30. On Windows, it could barely reach that.

Ea adding anti cheat also restricted games like garden warfare 1 and 2. These are games I only play with friends and now I can't since I use linux

Wine , lutris , proton ❤

GeForce Now works because they have a unique identifier passed through the VM as a property which can be used by the game to both identify that you're using GeForce Now and allow you past the anti-cheat, and allow them to uniquely identify you to your GeForce account and ban you. You can make a KVM which emulates physical hardware fairly well and will work for some anti-cheats, but not all.

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Is this backed by an article or anything? From what I found, there is no clear documentation on this.

I use Mint and Fedora and Windows as well. I absolutely love Linux and I would love it if it would be possible to use it exclusively. I use it mostly, 89% of my free time, except for my work PC, I have to use Windows then (company PC). Linux isn't perfect how many people make it out to be but neither are Windows or MacOS. Linux should be considered more IMO, however one part of the Linux community, and, no, it's not just a small vocal minority, should have more flexibility and consider making at least one extremely average Joe friendly distro, like Mint is just support it even more if you would like more users, and more people would move. For the average Joe the terminal should be optional even if we consider it easier. Hot take for some I believe but let's be honest if we don't bring more users we won't have a better experience ourselves. A food for thought, isn't it?

@Viesta

15 күн бұрын

the closest to an extremely average joe friendly distro in my opinion is bazzite as of right now... has an install wizard that basically installs the software you want for you.

@Hurla

12 күн бұрын

@@Viesta Bazzite is a good choice, however I don't see it being better or simpler than Mint or Fedora. Fedora has it all IMO...I might be wrong and I am a intermediate user myself so what works for me doesn't have to work for everyone. In comparison to Mint it is there, however Mint is as idiot proof as OS can be and Bazzite is not far from it.

I kept my gamepass subscription cause it's cheaper than ea pass and I still can install ea play on linux and play games thanks to gamepass

I have an Arc A770 in my main system. While the Windows experience has improved a lot, the Linux drivers are still pretty bad. Some games work fine, some just crash, some launch but run terribly with artefacts. So I had to move back to Windows. Probably go back to an AMD GPU once this one is EOL. I do the bulk of my gaming on Steam Deck though. That's been pretty solid. I also agree Game Pass is a bit overrated. I did the math and it worked out cheaper to just wait for sales and buy what I was actually playing.

Honestly what's happening is microsoft is in control of telling the game developers to only produce games for windows only because in Linux they don't want to risk loosing money because of support of software going to open source.

I did the dual thing for a bit, so I could still play games like PUBG. I tried the Virtualbox route to configure gaming mice too. But I came to the realization that I was crippling myself using Linux as a gaming OS. I can't access all of my games I paid for, I can't even setup a profile on my mouse. Is that Linux's fault, no, of course not. But why spend all that time trying to make Linux work for gaming, when I can just use Windows and not be hassled?

My problem is things like the battlefield games. Been playing them for years on linux and all of a sudden I cant because of the EA anti cheat. Game not compatible from the start ok i know to avoid it. But games ive been playing and enjoying (and paid for) then bam one day i cant play them anymore for some stupid reason. I honestly see this aspect getting worse and it darkens my outlook on linux as my gaming os.

@MichaelNROH

14 күн бұрын

I've been in the same boat initially, but given that there are a lot of similar Battlefield like games nowadays, that even offer more destruction than recent titles, I'm just gonna stick to that. Graphics are not quite up to par, and it's not for everyone, especially when playing with friends

@sjones72751

14 күн бұрын

@@MichaelNROH It's not necessarily Battlefield particularly, it's the trend. I would like either A) Devs/WINE get the windows anti-cheat working on Linux or B) There's enough push back on the game publishers to drop kernel level anti cheat. At this point I'm seeing neither and that's disappointing IMO.

Had the same experience with the game pass when I wanted to play the Yakuza games. These aren't very quick to complete and while playing Yakuza 0, the first one I've played, I just got removed. The games are back now iirc, but no thanks, never again. What makes Valorants anti-cheat Vanguard even worse in my opinion is that it need to always run from the boot onwards. That's some weird behavior that the other kernel level anti-cheats don't have. Why? Who knows, but the need to play Valorant isn't high enough for me. Destiny 2 running with a Hypervisor is one thing, but iirc Destiny 2 was running on a Linux based system when you ran it through Google Stadia

if the developer does not treat me well... its over and i play other things, and besides, why risk my security with ring 0 anticheats?

Forgets to tell how much time spent in terminal for install, troubleshoot and config there was for this

@MichaelNROH

10 күн бұрын

Literally none for my regular Desktop. Most people overthink it or try adding stuff they don't need.

I personally had a horrible time gaming on linux on my gaming pc. It is most likely the fact that i am using a RTX GPU but i was getting so low fps that games were unplayable. In the finals i got 14 fps but on Windows i got over 80. And even the few select games that ran somewhat well were stuttering every 2-3 seconds. I love linux and linux gaming on my steam deck is amazing but unfortunately i am still using windows on my PC. I've tried ubuntu, manjaro and nobara (kde & gnome) and i installed the drivers for my GPU but it was still a real pain. I don't know if there was a mistake on my part or if it just the RTX GPU but until this improves i will keep windows on my PC just so i can play any game at all.

Ngl, the only reason I keep windows on my machine is for UEFN and Unreal in general. The experience of Unreal Editor on Linux sucks so much compared to the windows edition

My games aren't that heavy, so I was happy to transition to Linux a month ago. The only thing that sticks out for me is the lack of a very good alternative to Microsoft Office.

@fearsmasher1299

16 күн бұрын

Besides the standard Libre Office, try Open Office or Softmaker Office. Great compatability.

@NiffirgkcaJ

16 күн бұрын

@@fearsmasher1299 I've tried OpenOffice and Softmaker Office. Both are fine, with Softmaker being a tad bit more intuitive for me, but in Spreadsheets, both are quite lacking. So, I just use WPS, but it's so outdated.

@csrmotorsport

16 күн бұрын

I use only office and find it is very similar to MS Office

@seguramlk

15 күн бұрын

There's Google Docs or Ofice 365 too if you wanna try

@seguramlk

15 күн бұрын

And WPS Office

Yes I still play games on Windows 11 for FFXIV online cause i like to have the best support for my fav MMORPG game, but I own a steam deck and play all my games on SteamOS and it works great and I love my steam deck :) oh and I also game on Linux on Arch Linux i have a beelink that do some gaming not all games cause its a APU using vega 8, but I can play some games like JRPG games work amazing on it. I also have a box with RTX 3060 which I do a lot of pc gaming on to that is running Arch Linux.... I play games on linux and windows so its all good to me man i dont like to compared OSes ... i mainly use Arch Linux cause i love the light weight of the system and the freedom it offer.

9:28 stardew valley ❤

If it is not supported on Linux, so I don’t play.

Look at well... Minecraft. The servers all use server side anticheats. Most of them are trash, but some of them are really good. You don't need client-side AC's.

@cameronbosch1213

16 күн бұрын

That's how it should be done. Tencent? That's how much they saved by not implementing it and forcing users to install rootkits! 😂

@MichaelNROH

16 күн бұрын

Minecraft is a lot easier to handle though. Like as I said, Ragehacks are pretty much detectable, but aim assist or wallhacks not so much.

Never forgot about green Steam

Wait games won't run inside a VM? That's so stupid

@MichaelNROH

11 күн бұрын

They run, but Anti-Cheats could detect them and you would also give up a good chunk of performance

@bvd_vlvd

11 күн бұрын

@@MichaelNROH I don't get what's so bad about being detected. It's not a cheat. Are they assuming you could run cheats on host so they do something about it?

@MichaelNROH

11 күн бұрын

@@bvd_vlvd That's basically it yes. A Kernel Level Anti-Cheat or even just a user space one can't reach outside the VM to check the host

Agreed, no more windows for gaming and car on multiplayer anymore tbh. Like more the solo games where can I dove in a world and adventure. If I need plqying a multiplayer game, then only on my console.❤

3:00 Hey! You can choose between refunding to steam wallet and to your payment card :D Your money isn't lost to steam wallet after buying a game :))

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