you're going to install Windows on that pc i'm going to install Linux on this
one so it's a race first to a usable desktop wins ready
okay come on you put obstacles in my way okay fine
i'll wait i'm going three two
one go Windows
gave yourself a head start i did not
that video evidence we pressed at the same time pressed enter i hit control delete
i reset the board this is not a useful progress bar it's what's called a
throbber it's called a throbber is it
i got another throbber to show you actually i'm just flexing my muscles
no i don't want to see what's new from Windows
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all right so i lost but
in fairness to me um i didn't get to pick a side i would have
chosen Linux in an os install race too yeah i guess but i needed a way to
introduce one of the biggest improvements in Linux gaming since our last video a year ago
thanks to the release of ubuntu 2004 and distros based on it like pop os and mint
we finally got a truly pick up and play experience it's at the point where i'd
argue that it's even easier to do than Windows now i mean you saw for yourself
this is fully usable this has a driver and everything
for real if you give it a try you'll be up and running with a grandma proof and
gaming capable os in a few minutes like i was what about the elephant in the
room though support for your games and stuff i mean
it's not like everything runs on Linux yeah true but significantly more stuff
runs than doesn't i've got a pretty big library at home including popular titles
like gta 5 and lesser known ones like dcs and ace combat 7. pretty much all of
it works fine proton compatibility layer was super cool when we first looked at
it translating direct decks Windows only games to vulcan on Linux and between the
official one and tweaked community versions like those from tk glitch and
glorious eggroll 69 of the top 1000 games on steam
are actually rated gold or better on proton db and most of the ones that
don't work at this point are drm or anti-cheat related right i mean the
problem is there's nothing that valve or the proton team can do about
deliberately linuxing compatible drm like how denuvo anti-cheat made do
maternal unplayable but the good news is that they actually came out and said
that going forward de nuvo anti-cheat will support Linux
one theory is that this change in stance could have to do with cloud gaming
services using Linux as their platform of choice hopefully it won't have to
matter too much why in the end but for now Linux users are getting a better
experience than ever despite the occasional sidelining there are still
some other ways that Linux lags behind the community is so small that issues
tend to be lower priorities for game developers and newer features can take
longer to roll out NVIDIA's rtx ray tracing for example hasn't been enabled
yet yeah but to be fair to NVIDIA they have
been rolling out additional ray tracing extensions here and there which is a key
step to enabling the functionality later on and there's some other big news too
for some gamers check this out Linux
actually meets their needs better than Windows does and not just by a little
bit for 16-bit retro gamers for example wine offers better compatibility and
stability without having to resort to running games in a virtual machine and
get this we've recorded runs with less old games running faster on Linux
than on an identical Windows machine like that's not just some random game
that no one plays like whatever this is
well this is burn sickburn go ahead
this is actually a game that tim sweeney published is it really well it's an epic
mega games game okay it's older than me yes well 1993 so not quite but i was
seven this was possible thanks to valve's aco shader compiler which is
designed to improve performance on gpus that use mesa like AMD's vega and navi
based cards and that's even with proton overhead don't believe it
let's take a look Linux gta5
doesn't make you a better driver that's for sure dang
oh lucky my car tipped over in all seriousness though back when this game
came out i probably would have said haha aaa gaming on Linux get real please
and yet here we are it's worth pointing out that
aco doesn't work with every game yet so it's not yet the default but performance
was already very good for the hardware thanks to AMD's open source drivers and
doetsujin's ongoing work with dxvk which now supports directx 9 titles as well
thanks to a merger with the d9bk project all of that's been rolled up into proton
and is supported out of the box in ubuntu 2004 and anything based on it
did i die okay so regardless of your graphics card you just install the os
install steam install games and play
games if you're on AMD enable aco and seems launch options for titles that
support it and you're laughing as for NVIDIA users
don't stress out too much NVIDIA's drivers aren't as good as they could be
if they were more open like AMD's but they also aren't as bad as people
make them out to be and both AMD and NVIDIA support their respective adaptive
refresh technology on Linux now with no additional installs required if you want
to quantify your Linux gaming performance even that is getting easier
Windows tools like fraps or frame view won't run but mango hud by flightless
mango works absurdly well it gives you a configurable rivet tuner ask overlay and
you can upload logs to the website and have it automatically generate graphs
for frame rates frame times one percent minimums pretty much everything you need
honestly if it logged more information like CPU and GPU temperatures
we'd probably switch over to it instead of what we're using in Windows
it's really good by the way guys
you might take for granted the controller that Anthony is using over
there but look closely
controller support is nothing special in Linux dualshock 3 dualshock 4 xbox 360
xbox one 8bitdo none of those require any configuration or special drivers
even over bluetooth but now
look at this even the xbox one wireless adapter has a
driver for Linux allowing low latency wireless operation for four controllers
off a single dongle just like it does on Windows and the dualshock force touchpad
even works as a mouse speaking of dualshock 4 we've actually got a video
on the pipeline where you play around with gyro aiming for games get subscribed so you don't miss it
what is this nothing no get away no no
you have to social distance so if i come over here you have to move
open RGB is that RGB control on Linux
yup open RGB is available on both Windows and Linux and it supports RGB
RAM motherboard lighting gpus and even stuff like Corsair lighting notes
despite all the work that's already gone into it though it's a little bit basic
right now and it's a pain to get running on ubuntu at the moment
but for simple lighting effects it's quite enough all right hotshot
how about vr if i want to get in some beat saber action penguin edition
that's tricky htc vive and valve index
have both worked for a while now because valve officially supports them in steam
but the open hmd driver for oculus and psvr is currently missing some rather
major features and the virtual desktop experience and
reprojection are cited as major issues by all Linux vr users that's a real
bummer because i use virtual desktop a ton even if it's just to like fix
something about my stream while i'm playing or whatever the case may be and
if aside from gaming you're a content creator you might have a hard time
switching to Linux full time even if all your games work the adobe suite which as
we made a video about recently we're pretty much stuck with for better or for
worse doesn't run in wine and there's no native version from adobe same deal with
microsoft office but for the second one there's at least
a web version if you really need it and people like tech tangents make good
work with Linux alternatives to adobe it's potentially a major change to your
workflow depending on what you're doing though some tools are great on their own
like krita blender and while others
well are promising but need a little bit more
work suffice it to say there are a lot of alternatives out there but for some
people it just won't be viable to run like full-time and that's okay really
yeah i mean it's frustrating but Linux on desktop has always been this
chicken and egg scenario where because it's not popular on the desktop
developers don't care because there's not enough people to buy the software
yet because developers don't care and build that software it's not popular on
the desktop yeah some developers
epic oh the cough ah yeah get back oh oh
i'm good i'm fine some developers
are kind of dicks about it and i get the die hard Linux veterans
concerns they think that leaning on proton as a
crutch might disincentivize game developers from creating native Linux
games but for me i see proton and wine in general as more of a platform
developers can support that requires little additional effort and allows for
the user base to grow and the more the user base grows the
more accessible everything becomes so at this point the call to action for you
guys is really simple where'd it go there it is
pick up a usb stick give it a try you
can run it right off the usb without installing it on your main drive like i
did in this recent video where Windows just straight up wouldn't run my weird
chinese motherboard that had a baked on graphics card but Linux would go check
out that video and try it
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the video description thanks for watching guys if you'd like to get your
feet wet why not check out our previous gaming on Linux video that's a bit more
of a tutorial style noob intro Anthony
and james are going to see you guys over there oh and thanks again to the Linux
gaming subreddit for providing input on the topics we discussed in today's video
the penguin army over there grew by more than 50 since last year you'd love to
see it