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death to Microsoft the opensource community is ready to send you to your

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grave your tyrannical Reign Over PC

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Gamers is at an end

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freom is what I would say if I lived

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with lonus Wallace III over here in fantasy land where any of that was true

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so far the one month Linux gaming challenge has been as advertised a

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challenge and in part two Luke and I are going to be taking it to the next level

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by not just gaming on Linux but by recording and streaming our gameplay to

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viewers on Twitch now I'd be lying if I said I'm not expecting some speed bumps

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with our desktop environment set up Luke and I have a deceptively short

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pre-flight checklist of tasks to complete to be streaming ready we'll

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need comms to chat and collaborate with our fellow creators and software that's

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capable of capturing our gameplay audio and face cams and obviously we'll need

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the aformentioned audio interfaces and cameras both working we both use Elgato

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key lights which we've always controlled using Windows software so we'll both

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need to find a workaround for that and no points will be awarded for having an

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ugly or bad sounding stream it's got to look every bit as legit from a viewer

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perspective as it did on Windows immediately I started overthinking

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things sometimes that's the problem with knowing just enough to be dangerous I

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tried to apt get OBS the industry standard for desktop capture and

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streaming in the terminal only to discover that manaro the Linux

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distribution that I'm using doesn't come with apt because apt is from managing

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packages on Debian and related os's oops

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making life more difficult the message that comes up when you try to execute

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the command doesn't say hey you should probably be using Pac-Man you duns it

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tries to install some kind of dependency for apt then just quietly fails and

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prompts you to do the same thing again when you try to use it infinite Loop

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baby speaking of which I had a panic moment when I checked OBS compatibility

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and found out that it is actually unsupported in art by the way and its

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derivatives but the good news is that upon launch I was immediately relieved

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to find that it works exactly as expected with some exceptions for

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example the nank new encoder doesn't show up as an option which appears to be

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down to NVIDIA's poop tastic drivers on Linux side note here I always kind of

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assumed that the Linux Community was grousing about NVIDIA primarily for

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their locked down proprietary approach to things and that it had less to do

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with the actual quality of the product now I properly understand that it is

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definitely both as mentioned core product functionality from like a couple

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of years ago is missing the control panel looks like it's from 10 years ago

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and the interface is kind of confusing

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thankfully I was able to enable g-sync

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on my display but for whatever reason you allow it in order to actually turn

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it on which you then verify in a completely different Tab and this kind

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of confusion is not a deal breaker it's just obvious that the Linux software has

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never gotten the kind of TLC from the ux team that the Windows software does for

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me acquiring OBS was no problem I just got it from the package manager and it

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was all okay once installed though we noticed something window capture on

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Linux can be a little problematic we couldn't seem to get it working at all

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at the start I had an option for it but it didn't work and Linus didn't even

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have that but a few days later I tried it again for a different project and it

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worked just fine I checked in with lonus and his did too neither of us know what

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might have fixed it but that's cool I guess the bigger issue

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for me ended up being the software that just doesn't exist there are third party

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tools for example that allow key remapping keyboarding Master is

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evidently a popular one but if your peripherals have a manufacturer provided

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tool that is used to reconfigure RGB

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lighting or the liftoff distance of your mouse or or the sensitivity steps of

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your DPI button then get ready to

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install Windows in a virtual machine pass those devices through configure

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them and then hand them back over to Linux it's extremely tedious and doesn't

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even remotely restore full functionality for example don't expect to get a low

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battery warning for your grpro wireless mouse and it's even worse for my audio

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interface the go XLR has a handful of unique features including decent preamps

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reprogramming screen labels a built-in soundboard function and the infamous

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beep button that I am so fond of using during my live streams about the kind of

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that NVIDIA puts them through I'll have it in the affiliate link down

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below by the way the bad news about it is that as far as I can tell TC Helicon

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has given exactly zero thought to Linux

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whatsoever but wait there's the solution

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all I have to do is follow these simple instructions to download a random script

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off GitHub and run it with no indication given whatsoever for

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how exactly to run a script even the

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process of downloading it was unintuitive and I know GitHub is for

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developers and not for end users but it's really hard to hide behind that

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Shield when it took me less than 2 days to run into a situation where I had to

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use it I mean at that point if GitHub is only for developers then desktop Linux

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is only for developers you can't have it both ways unlike on LT store where you

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can find great merch at fair prices our Mouse mats are rated five stars with

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literally thousands of reviews go see what all the fuss is about at the link below anyway I found a guide on how to

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run a script I'm grateful for that but I'm frustrated by the condescending tone

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I mean my assumption that a file with a

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sh extension would behave as I would expect it to and launch in some kind of

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script running application doesn't seem that unreasonable news flash random

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contributor you can also change a file extension in Windows and it will attempt

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to launch in the default program for that file type it actually serves

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exactly the same fundamental purpose hinting at the contents of the file the

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only difference is that these hints for the user are also used as hints for the

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operating system it's actually a lot more convenient than digging into the

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properties of the file to find out what it does anyway pompus tone aside that

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contributor did helped me figure out my GitHub download so it turns out that

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rightclick save Target as gets you an H HML file insh clothing because I don't

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know some borderline arbitrary reason probably and in order to get it to be an

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actual sh file I had to copy it into a text editor Kate and then save that as a

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script and execute it in the terminal it spat out a bunch of errors and as I

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expected most of the buttons don't work but all the inputs and outputs that I

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had already configured in Windows did show up my faders work I even have my

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button until my go XLR loses power for

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any reason at which point I will have to pass it through to Windows reconfigure

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it in Windows and then pass it back over to Linux without losing power compared

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to that all the other stuff is minor I hope the most notable issue I had was

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that my audio devices were just kind of screwy in OBS my voice came across very

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unnaturally deep and it sounded like my mic input had been duplicated my voice

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just feels deep right now I don't know if I've got something lodged or what

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yeah chat was pretty convinced that I had set something up incorrectly and if

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I was a viewer of my stream I probably would have said the same thing but I've

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been using OBS for like six or seven years now so I had my doubts I even

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streamed my OBS settings panel to prove it but eventually feeling out of options

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I just restarted OBS and yeah that solved pretty much everything which was

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kind of frustrating because I've heard time and time again that you don't have

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to turn things off and on again to get them working in Linux but hey maybe

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that's just cuz I'm not really great at Linux yet maybe there's something else I

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could have done not sure on the good side of things though my mixer has

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worked flawlessly from the start though it is pretty simple as far as mixers go

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I didn't have to change any settings I didn't have to install anything for it I

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just set it as my default input device and was good to go once I got pamac

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figured out getting comms going was surprisingly simple pamac is a program

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with a graphical user interface that functions similarly to the Pac-Man

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package manager that you operate in the terminal at least it does once you find

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the hidden button in pamac to search snap flat pack and Arch user repository

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entries it's basically like the pop shop

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from popos except it didn't try to Brick my system the first time I used it the

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only really difficult thing was choosing the right package to install for Discord

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there's regular Discord and then there's Canary Discord whatever that is I chose

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the most official looking package and I was up and running almost immediately

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once I found the super convenient per application volume mixer in the bottom

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right corner the interface is kind of cludy like scrolling with your mouse

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wheel Scrolls through both the audio devices and the levels of the individual

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devices which is not great but other than that it works really well and my

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first voice call to Luke went completely without a hitch or it would have if I'd

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known that it was starting unfortunately I actually still have not figured out

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how to get desktop notifications working I found a guide but the instructions

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fell apart almost immediately when my Discord package didn't show up in the

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list where it's supposed to be for me to fix it I think that's probably a project

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for another day Discord was an easy install for me again it was just

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automatically available in package manager that being said there was

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certain missing features screen sharing

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across slack teams and Discord are kind of sketchy at best they feel less stable

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or they're even missing some features here and there outside of that there's

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even really simple stuff missing every now and then like if I download a file

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and slack and then try to click the open containing folder button just nothing

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happens and speaking of missing features

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I used the phone app for the Elgato control center just like Linus did I had

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found another solution through a script on GitHub but I thought that way would

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potentially be problematic in the long term so I just avoided it unfortun for

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my camera however Canon EOS utilities doesn't work on Linux I'd been using

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that software on Windows for quite a while now to get a live feed from my

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Canon 70D over USB to my computer it was

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Flawless and didn't require a capture card I do have an Avio 4K capture card

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which does work on Linux but I don't have the micro HDMI cable that it would

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need to connect to my camera I could pick one up but just for this challenge

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I decided to go with my old Logitech C 920 which while it doesn't remotely look

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as good it works just fine and when you make the window for it really small no

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one can really tell I think overall the easiest part for me was getting my cam

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link 4K up and running it was garbled when I selected one of the duplicate

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sources in OBS but immediately after trying the second one it cleared up and

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has been Picture Perfect ever since so it works but there's a much larger

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upfront investment in getting it working the question is just whether it feels

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worth it in in the end it worked if you

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connected to the stream after we were done about 15 minutes of troubleshooting

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while we were just in the thick of trying not to starve I'm sure any random

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viewer wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between one of my old Windows streams and this one audio was

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good capture was good that's where the good ends however literally everything I

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used past this point was a lesser experience compared to its Windows

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counterpart almost everything was missing at least one feature and some I

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i' say most notably OBS and teams were just buggy requiring restarts for simple

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settings to actually apply and had other various problems it definitely wasn't

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impossible and it was actually easier than I expected but due to various bugs

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missing features and incompatible software it wasn't as simple or clean as

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doing it on Windows that I wouldn't say that was enough for it to be a deal

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breaker for me the bottom line is what you're looking to get out of it if

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you're daily driving Linux for game streaming out of a genuine passion for

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learning more about it than have at it have fun but just know what you're

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getting into PC gaming already requires a certain amount of tinkering I mean

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there's a reason that more people game on consoles you know whether it's trying

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to track down save files in some Vista era folder or forcing an aspect ratio in

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an inii file but a Linux gaming PC it

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requires all of that crap and then another mountain of crap on top of it

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like when something doesn't work you can tell yourself you know well I never

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wanted to use that functionality or I never wanted to play that game anyway

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but honestly it just comes across as sour grapes it is not that easy to use

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the good news though is that a shocking number of experiences don't start and

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end with sorry you can't do this so stay

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tuned for part three where Luke and I are going to be trying to get as many

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games up and running as possible starting with twitch's top 20 and then

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expanding into some of our personal favorites it's going to be a really good one just

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looking for another video to watch check out part one of this series so you don't

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miss any of the action or if you've already watched that maybe check out my I switched to Mac series from a little

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while back okay it was quite a while back but it was definitely interesting