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you're going to install Windows on that pc i'm going to install Linux on this

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one so it's a race first to a usable desktop wins ready

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okay come on you put obstacles in my way okay fine

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i'll wait i'm going three two

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one go Windows

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gave yourself a head start i did not

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that video evidence we pressed at the same time pressed enter i hit control delete

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i reset the board this is not a useful progress bar it's what's called a

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throbber it's called a throbber is it

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i got another throbber to show you actually i'm just flexing my muscles

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no i don't want to see what's new from Windows

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come on are you supporting remote workers smart

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all right so i lost but

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in fairness to me um i didn't get to pick a side i would have

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chosen Linux in an os install race too yeah i guess but i needed a way to

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introduce one of the biggest improvements in Linux gaming since our last video a year ago

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thanks to the release of ubuntu 2004 and distros based on it like pop os and mint

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we finally got a truly pick up and play experience it's at the point where i'd

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argue that it's even easier to do than Windows now i mean you saw for yourself

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this is fully usable this has a driver and everything

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for real if you give it a try you'll be up and running with a grandma proof and

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gaming capable os in a few minutes like i was what about the elephant in the

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room though support for your games and stuff i mean

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it's not like everything runs on Linux yeah true but significantly more stuff

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runs than doesn't i've got a pretty big library at home including popular titles

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like gta 5 and lesser known ones like dcs and ace combat 7. pretty much all of

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it works fine proton compatibility layer was super cool when we first looked at

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it translating direct decks Windows only games to vulcan on Linux and between the

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official one and tweaked community versions like those from tk glitch and

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glorious eggroll 69 of the top 1000 games on steam

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are actually rated gold or better on proton db and most of the ones that

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don't work at this point are drm or anti-cheat related right i mean the

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problem is there's nothing that valve or the proton team can do about

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deliberately linuxing compatible drm like how denuvo anti-cheat made do

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maternal unplayable but the good news is that they actually came out and said

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that going forward de nuvo anti-cheat will support Linux

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one theory is that this change in stance could have to do with cloud gaming

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services using Linux as their platform of choice hopefully it won't have to

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matter too much why in the end but for now Linux users are getting a better

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experience than ever despite the occasional sidelining there are still

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some other ways that Linux lags behind the community is so small that issues

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tend to be lower priorities for game developers and newer features can take

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longer to roll out NVIDIA's rtx ray tracing for example hasn't been enabled

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yet yeah but to be fair to NVIDIA they have

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been rolling out additional ray tracing extensions here and there which is a key

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step to enabling the functionality later on and there's some other big news too

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for some gamers check this out Linux

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actually meets their needs better than Windows does and not just by a little

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bit for 16-bit retro gamers for example wine offers better compatibility and

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stability without having to resort to running games in a virtual machine and

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get this we've recorded runs with less old games running faster on Linux

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than on an identical Windows machine like that's not just some random game

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that no one plays like whatever this is

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well this is burn sickburn go ahead

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this is actually a game that tim sweeney published is it really well it's an epic

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mega games game okay it's older than me yes well 1993 so not quite but i was

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seven this was possible thanks to valve's aco shader compiler which is

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designed to improve performance on gpus that use mesa like AMD's vega and navi

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based cards and that's even with proton overhead don't believe it

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let's take a look Linux gta5

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doesn't make you a better driver that's for sure dang

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oh lucky my car tipped over in all seriousness though back when this game

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came out i probably would have said haha aaa gaming on Linux get real please

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and yet here we are it's worth pointing out that

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aco doesn't work with every game yet so it's not yet the default but performance

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was already very good for the hardware thanks to AMD's open source drivers and

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doetsujin's ongoing work with dxvk which now supports directx 9 titles as well

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thanks to a merger with the d9bk project all of that's been rolled up into proton

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and is supported out of the box in ubuntu 2004 and anything based on it

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did i die okay so regardless of your graphics card you just install the os

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install steam install games and play

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games if you're on AMD enable aco and seems launch options for titles that

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support it and you're laughing as for NVIDIA users

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don't stress out too much NVIDIA's drivers aren't as good as they could be

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if they were more open like AMD's but they also aren't as bad as people

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make them out to be and both AMD and NVIDIA support their respective adaptive

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refresh technology on Linux now with no additional installs required if you want

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to quantify your Linux gaming performance even that is getting easier

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Windows tools like fraps or frame view won't run but mango hud by flightless

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mango works absurdly well it gives you a configurable rivet tuner ask overlay and

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you can upload logs to the website and have it automatically generate graphs

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for frame rates frame times one percent minimums pretty much everything you need

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honestly if it logged more information like CPU and GPU temperatures

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we'd probably switch over to it instead of what we're using in Windows

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it's really good by the way guys

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you might take for granted the controller that Anthony is using over

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there but look closely

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controller support is nothing special in Linux dualshock 3 dualshock 4 xbox 360

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xbox one 8bitdo none of those require any configuration or special drivers

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even over bluetooth but now

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look at this even the xbox one wireless adapter has a

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driver for Linux allowing low latency wireless operation for four controllers

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off a single dongle just like it does on Windows and the dualshock force touchpad

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even works as a mouse speaking of dualshock 4 we've actually got a video

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on the pipeline where you play around with gyro aiming for games get subscribed so you don't miss it

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what is this nothing no get away no no

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you have to social distance so if i come over here you have to move

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open RGB is that RGB control on Linux

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yup open RGB is available on both Windows and Linux and it supports RGB

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RAM motherboard lighting gpus and even stuff like Corsair lighting notes

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despite all the work that's already gone into it though it's a little bit basic

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right now and it's a pain to get running on ubuntu at the moment

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but for simple lighting effects it's quite enough all right hotshot

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how about vr if i want to get in some beat saber action penguin edition

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that's tricky htc vive and valve index

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have both worked for a while now because valve officially supports them in steam

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but the open hmd driver for oculus and psvr is currently missing some rather

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major features and the virtual desktop experience and

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reprojection are cited as major issues by all Linux vr users that's a real

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bummer because i use virtual desktop a ton even if it's just to like fix

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something about my stream while i'm playing or whatever the case may be and

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if aside from gaming you're a content creator you might have a hard time

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switching to Linux full time even if all your games work the adobe suite which as

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we made a video about recently we're pretty much stuck with for better or for

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worse doesn't run in wine and there's no native version from adobe same deal with

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microsoft office but for the second one there's at least

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a web version if you really need it and people like tech tangents make good

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work with Linux alternatives to adobe it's potentially a major change to your

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workflow depending on what you're doing though some tools are great on their own

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like krita blender and while others

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well are promising but need a little bit more

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work suffice it to say there are a lot of alternatives out there but for some

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people it just won't be viable to run like full-time and that's okay really

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yeah i mean it's frustrating but Linux on desktop has always been this

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chicken and egg scenario where because it's not popular on the desktop

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developers don't care because there's not enough people to buy the software

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yet because developers don't care and build that software it's not popular on

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the desktop yeah some developers

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epic oh the cough ah yeah get back oh oh

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i'm good i'm fine some developers

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are kind of dicks about it and i get the die hard Linux veterans

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concerns they think that leaning on proton as a

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crutch might disincentivize game developers from creating native Linux

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games but for me i see proton and wine in general as more of a platform

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developers can support that requires little additional effort and allows for

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the user base to grow and the more the user base grows the

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more accessible everything becomes so at this point the call to action for you

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guys is really simple where'd it go there it is

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pick up a usb stick give it a try you

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can run it right off the usb without installing it on your main drive like i

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did in this recent video where Windows just straight up wouldn't run my weird

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chinese motherboard that had a baked on graphics card but Linux would go check

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the video description thanks for watching guys if you'd like to get your

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feet wet why not check out our previous gaming on Linux video that's a bit more

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of a tutorial style noob intro Anthony

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and james are going to see you guys over there oh and thanks again to the Linux

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gaming subreddit for providing input on the topics we discussed in today's video

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the penguin army over there grew by more than 50 since last year you'd love to

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see it