him accidentally uninstalling gnome shell in the process of installing steam was so fucking good dude
animelivesmatter 37 points 3 years ago
Walk_blesseD 1 point 3 years ago
I have used Linux so many times. The funniest is probably when I neglected to add a network manager on my first attempt at an Arch install.
Viking_Hippie 4 points 3 years ago
A big part of the POINT of Linux is that it's open source rather than proprietary, making it not his system nor his responsibility to promote it..
ssfckdt 1 point 3 years ago
Except that Linus Torvalds literally works for The Linux Foundation, so....
I really did mean that I had always assumed that Linus Tech Tips was from the same Linus that made Linux, but it's not, and I learned that... yesterday.
HardlightCereal 1 point 3 years ago
Is Ubuntu bad?
qaz 3 points 3 years ago
It’s not bad, and it used to be one of the only noob-friendly distro’s, but things have improved since then. Upstream Debian has gotten easier to install and Fedora has become the best starter distro imo.
passepartout 3 points 3 years ago
It can't even wun micwodowt owwice :(
Hextic 29 points 3 years ago
My Steam Deck plays most everything the system specs can run minus stupid anti cheat.
I'm surprised when games that run like shit on Windows like Descent 3 can run great there. Proton (+ the rest) is black magic.
CriticalMiss 4 points 3 years ago
That has been my experience running SteamOS on the SD and Arch on my main computer.
If it doesn’t have some trash anti cheat or weird DRM from the 2000s, it will run.
passepartout 31 points 3 years ago
Well there is
- Vulkan (graphics API, successor to OpenGL which was used by e.g. Minecraft, CS Go i believe)
- DXVK (compatibility layer for games created with the DirectX Framework by MS)
- Lutris (game launcher for stuff you bought outside of steam, e.g. GOG, Epic, Uplay, etc.)
- Steam and maybe Proton but idk.
- the atom thing could be protondb.com, where you can look up if your game will run on linux and what fixes / commands are available
passepartout 4 points 3 years ago
It surely is, it has also been really great to see the growing support for all those games over the last years. Sad to see some games still being borked with no valid reason (Pubg e.g., with the developers stating the game can run on linux with no problems at all, they still will block it bc they are scared of hackers or some other lame excuse).
Every problem I had playing games on Linux could be fixed by some kind stranger on there offering a command or sth. else (sometimes even stuff thats not related to linux at all lol)
OtakuAltair 8 points 3 years ago
It's not so much Linux catching up as it is making games compatible (and in most cases run just as well as native Linux games) that weren't made for Linux in the first place. And that's pretty insane. Thank you Valve 🙏😔
_cerpin_taxt_ 7 points 3 years ago
Right? All of these comments are like "it's just as easy as gaming on Windows. I just have to make sure I run these specific commands in my terminal or my PC bricks, nothing runs as well as on Windows unless you have 20 years of experience with Linux, and you still need to keep a dual boot of Windows for those pesky games that aren't Linux-friendly (re: 99.9% of games). I'm so much happier on Linux and will never look back!please shoot me in the face now and end my pain I'm so happy!"
Like whatever lies you guys need to tell yourselves lol. I'll stick with Windows until it's as easy as hitting play. Also would be nice if the UI didn't look straight out of 1995.
OtakuAltair 4 points 3 years ago
Get Nobara os if you want a plug-and-play experience. Valve is doing an amazing job pushing Linux gaming
And I dunno where you're getting the ui thing from; most distros look and feel much better than windows even by default these days lol
_cerpin_taxt_ 3 points 3 years ago
Mint was the most recent distro I tried and it looked like a potato, but sadly didn't taste as good.
With Nobara, can I install any and all applications and games I'm currently running on my PC, with zero additional steps, and does this OS get driver updates for my 4080 on the same frequency as Windows? Can I install Steam and play any game in my library with zero additional steps? If that's the case, I'll make the switch right here, right now.
OtakuAltair 2 points 3 years ago
Mint looks amazing though imo, better than windows by default I dare say
You could just change the theming and stuff if you didn't like the default look. Linux is basically infinitely customizable after all. Distros and desktop environments just make it much easier.
With Nobara, can I install any and all applications and games I’m currently running on my PC, with zero additional steps
It's not zero additional steps on windows either though; on windows you'd still need to download and install directx, opengl, vulkan, etc and find and install the correct .net framework versions for many tasks. I remember windows having its own fair share of hassle while I was on it until a few months ago, even aside from how slow and bloated it is.
Nobara basically takes care of similar setup on Linux for you, making some additional improvements like proton GE (modified version of Valve's proton to further increase compatibility and performance) and I'm pretty sure the drivers are just a modified version of the latest official ones. You could ask in the discord server for more info.
And you don't need to 'switch'! You could set up dual-booting instead; some invasive anti-cheats are only made for windows right now so some of those games don't work yet.
samn 4 points 3 years ago
I daily drive Debian 12 on my desktop. In my massive library of steam games, I’ve yet to come across more than 3 that I haven’t been able to get to work, and the rest run remarkably better than on windows. Controller support has been more seamless than it was on windows, and I’ve gotten older games to work that never worked on windows 10. I’m not sure what experience you’re basing this on, maybe Optimus has some issues for laptops, but every desktop I’ve built in the last ~4 years has worked fine (and with nvidia GPUs, too)
BeigeAgenda 16 points 3 years ago
Been gaming on Linux for years, currently I use Play On Linux and Steam.
I remember the days you had to compile your own wine to get something working.
And those wine fixme in the console, it felt like the game was being held together with string.
willeypete23 14 points 3 years ago
Linus gaming got simple when steam dropped steamOS as a stand alone operating system. I went from windows 7 to steamOS. First was the steam piston, now I have a steam machine (Alienware / dell) and a steam deck. It's as easy as console gaming but with all the flexibility of PC gaming.
And before I get shit for prebuilts, sometimes you just want to play, and shit just works. Also am poor.
willeypete23 1 point 3 years ago
I mean if you want to be pandantic owning a computer for gaming excludes you from being poor. Otherwise, if we're doing cost relative to performance, you can pick up an alienware alpha for cost of the graphics card.
Noughmad 1 point 3 years ago
Depends on what you mean by "computer for gaming". You pretty much need a computer at home for school work, printing and sending documents, maybe even some work from home. A lot of this can be done with a phone or tablet nowadays, but that wasn't the case 5 years ago, which is why lots of people have an old-ish computer. And yes, this computer can be used to play games, not all the newer ones, but still plenty of games.
If you have a dedicated, modern and expensive computer only for games (and note that this includes consoles), yeah that definitely does exclude you from being poor.
OtakuAltair 6 points 3 years ago
Download Nobara OS (Linux distro optimized for gaming by default)
Set up dual boot with both Linux/Nobara and Windows so you can boot into either.
You can just delete windows entirely later if you find yourself not using it. That's what I ended up doing after a few months of dual booting.
Naveen000can 2 points 3 years ago
This is duel booting so you don't need to backup anything
OtakuAltair 2 points 3 years ago
Like the others said, dual-booting means you'll keep windows and your files... But you should still always be backing up at least your important files regardless tbh
Thoxy 12 points 3 years ago
I made the switch to Linux a year ago, and I haven't looked back since. Of course, I still keep a dual boot for those pesky games that use Ring0 anticheat or are simply incompatible with Linux, like Fortnite or PUBG. But honestly, I don't find myself playing them as often anymore. My current actual go-to games include Dota 2, CS:GO, Elden Ring, Sea of Thieves, Diablo 4, Street Fighter 6, Dead Cells, and Isaac.
kapitol 3 points 3 years ago
Hmm I find that the performance gain on games like D4 and Elden Ring are significant enough for me to boot over to my windows disk (much to my chagrin). Do you have any specific tweaks for those games. The performance isn't always terrible for those games on my Linux system but it's enough to affect gameplay occasionally.
Thoxy 2 points 3 years ago
I don't rely on special settings; instead, I ensure that I have the latest Mesa driver installed for my 7900XTX. Additionally, I optimize my gaming experience by using a set of launch settings that work well for most of my games, with minor adjustments made to the RADV_PERFTEST environment variable. These are the launch settings I use :
VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json:/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV RADV_PERFTEST=sam,rt,gpl,nggc,aco gamemoderun %command%
anothercatgirl 12 points 3 years ago path: 0 1651381, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 1
refurbishedrefurbisher 3 points 3 years ago
Protontricks also helps here.
alternativeninja 10 points 3 years ago
I don't think I've found a game that doesn't work with Proton. I only find ones where the property anti cheat doesn't work.
littlecolt 10 points 3 years ago
Compiling Vulkan shaders... (57%)
dudewitbow 12 points 3 years ago
Its shader compilation that made elden ring at launch a better experience on linux than windows, because the windows build had a broken shader compiler causing microstutters.
Duke_Nukem_1990 15 points 3 years ago
So? I am using linux (arch btw) with a 3090 without problems.
neeeeDanke 5 points 3 years ago
I am using a 1080 Ti and its meh, I sometimes have screen tearing issues, sleep/hibernate doesn't work anymore and letting it choose the iGPU and GPU based off of the current needs also does not work, so I just run the iGPU most of the time (it doesn't have the screen tearing issue).
I'm thinking of doing a fresh install, maybe a different distro, as the setup is quite old and bloated by now, but I'm not looking forward to reinstalling everything I actually need/use.
iByteABit 4 points 3 years ago
I use a GTX 970, I can play most games just fine.
It's not Windows performance, Cyberpunk 2077 for instance was quite more unstable for me on Arch and it took quite a bit of tweaking to be able to launch it (it's a miracle that I can even play Cyberpunk with a 970 in both cases :P). Generally though I've had a pretty good experience, most games play out of the box with good performance, and I get to daily drive Linux finally
iByteABit 3 points 3 years ago
It can run yeah, but it's not a playable performance at all. A friend of mine played a bit of Cyberpunk with a 1050 on Windows, all the latest drivers and a relatively good build other than the graphics card, but he quickly got tired from running it with 20-30 FPS (all settings on low with 720p)
SSUPII 1 point 3 years ago
Didn't find it myself as an issue. I play a LOT of older 3D titles (3D Nintendo Switch games), and most are locked at 30 or even 25.
But am I mistaken, or I remember Cyberpunk being more about CPU than GPU? I got an Intel i7-8750H
bl_r 2 points 3 years ago
I use linux with nvidia hardware, and its not that bad. Just remember to click “allow proprietary software” when you install your OS.
Some software can get problematic, such as Hyprland and Sway, but games are fine.
I mean, I’d have a better experience with AMD, but even with nvidia, I’m having a better experience than windows. especially considering I don’t have to use their shitty driver downloader
Holzkohlen 1 point 3 years ago
True. There are even distros that do it for you. PopOS or EndeavourOS (has a nvidia boot option when installing). I just did a fresh EndeavourOS install and it's amazing. I have an RTX 3060 btw
But sure, AMD would be better still. Fuck Nvidia and all that 100%
Cosmonaut_Collin 1 point 3 years ago
I have a gtx1070 and it works well on Linux. I have only used debian based Linux systems though. Pop OS has been recommended and that is probably the easiest OS to start in. I really like Kubuntu though for having a windows-like environment.
GCostanzaStepOnMe 3 points 3 years ago
Morrowind goes brr
MenacingPerson 3 points 3 years ago
Whats the electron looking thing?
Barbarian 3 points 3 years ago
This one is pretty simple, if you want an explanation for it. Just pointing out all the wonderful under the hood improvements that valve, AMD and others have made to the state of Linux gaming, in meme form.
Arutttelar 4 points 3 years ago
I agree, fellow gamer 🤝
Arutttelar 2 points 3 years ago
🤝
Cosmonaut_Collin 1 point 3 years ago
I've also noticed that since Linux is lighter weight compared to Windows games generally run faster. At least that is my experience when using a crummy $500 laptop.
passepartout 1 point 3 years ago
Well there is
- Vulkan (graphics API, successor to OpenGL which is used by e.g. Minecraft, CS Go i believe)
- DXVK (compatibility layer for games created with the DirectX Framework by MS)
- Lutris (game launcher for stuff you bought outside of steam, e.g. GOG, Epic, Uplay, etc.)
- Steam and maybe Proton but idk.
- i don't know what that Atom sign thingy is
passepartout 2 points 3 years ago
Yes thats it, thx
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