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hey what's up oh computer trouble man all i want to do is write scripts

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dank ass jokes for LTT but i've been stuck in an infinite bootloop for like a

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day what if i told you that there's a way

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out from under the iron grip of the bloated legacy

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of billy g why are you using that voice i can show

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you sure but i must warn you

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it's a rabbit hole that you may never want to climb back out of

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but you never explain the voice and if you do escape you should probably escape

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okay so you got me down here why don't you start by telling me

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why i should care about Linux well it's simple really i can say with confidence

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that it's the future of gaming that's a pretty bold claim yeah but

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there are huge companies backing it right now now you can play stream games in Linux

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using valve's proton and the number of games is growing by the day

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as a result of that NVIDIA has been focusing on Linux drivers almost as much

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as Windows and you want to know the most important thing hit me google's game

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streaming service stadia relies on Linux using vulkan native Linux versions of

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the most popular titles are all but certain at the very least Windows

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versions with vulkan support which makes proton's job that much easier what's

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more game developers see proton as a way to access a whole new audience of Linux

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users meaning the more popular proton becomes with gamers the more native

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Linux releases developers will make i see and you're going to talk me through

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this right i mean i've never used Linux before

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and i've heard that it's pretty complicated

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not necessarily do you remember how we had to jump through a lot of hoops in

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order to get our last video on ubuntu gaming up to date enough to

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run games properly well as it turns out there's actually a

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bunch of different distros available where that's not a problem

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wait hold on slow down a second i've heard about ubuntu before but what's a

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distro oh right it's short for distribution and ubuntu

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is just one of them okay uh you can think of it like Android some phones get

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updates faster than others or come with their own bundled apps and

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ui scans the same with Linux so you can think of ubuntu as being similar to say

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touchwiz on samsung galaxy phones or oxygen os and oneplus okay like those

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ubuntu is not always the most up to date but it's got a nice enough interface

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it's you know pretty popular

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some distros on the other hand are more elegant and some are more customizable

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some have more features other place emphasis on stability that kind of thing

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so what if i don't like one distro and i want to choose another one i'm gonna have to learn everything again from

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scratch no just like on Android where you can

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download a new launcher if you don't like the interface on a Linux distro

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you can just download a new desktop environment ubuntu itself is a distro

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and these days just uses a customized version of a desktop environment called

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gnome but if you want a more Windows like experience there's kde lxqt and

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xfce and if you want a more mac-like experience there's deepen pantheon and

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budgie all of which feature high levels of polish ubuntu even has a bunch of

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different flavors with that in mind like kubuntu

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zubuntu and ubuntu budgie i love these names

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and since you can run them all off of usb drive you can give it a test drive without

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even affecting your existing operating system so like if you have Windows

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it only takes a few minutes just download the iso and using balina etcher

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or rufus you just create a usb drive and off you

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go just one of these that's pretty sweet

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okay so as i said i have heard of ubuntu so since it's the most popular one

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that's got to be the best for gaming right um yes and no

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ubuntu has the advantage of being ridiculously popular so most guys will

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be written with it in mind the problem is that ubuntu ships with old versions

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of all the software we're going to need so there are some hoops to jump through

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in order to get the working gaming setup with that in mind though there are two

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distros i'd like to bring attention to today system 76 is pop os and manjaro

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pop os is based on ubuntu so it's able to take advantage of ubuntu's community

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support and it also has more up-to-date software than stock ubuntu does

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which makes it simpler to get up and running manjaro on the other hand is not

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based on ubuntu but something called arch which is really geared towards more

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advanced users and uses what's called a rolling release cycle which is similar

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in concept to stock Android release cycle this gives us access to even more

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recent software plus it even has steam pre-installed

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and like ubuntu manjaro comes in multiple flavors just in case you like

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one desktop environment over another okay so you're saying if i install

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manjaro i just have steam but if i go with pop os then i need to go to the

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website and download steam right uh no that's where the package manager comes

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in the huberty way well it's basically like an app store and it gives you a

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list of searchable software that is gathered from a list of centralized

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repositories that you can just download and install with a couple clicks and this gives you

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automatic updates as they become available on the repository and installs

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any prerequisites the app might need so on pop os you just open up the pop shop

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and search for steam is there a lot less overhead with this os uh compared to Windows yes

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just feels so fast and light okay but

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what if a software i want isn't even in the store uh in that case your next step

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is to turn to the community and on ubuntu-based distros that comes in the

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form of personal package archives or ppas which can be added in pop shop

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settings window under extra sources meanwhile on manjaro you'd use the arch

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user repository which is a little easier to set up just enable it in manjaro's

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preferred package manager pamac usually these will give you access to

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software that might not have package available for your distro for example

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things like discord teamviewer or obs okay but what if it's not on either of

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those then as a last resort you would turn to

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the author's website just like on Windows but that's not really a common

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problem to have which is fortunate because it's not as easy or as clean to

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install something you downloaded from the internet on Linux as it is on

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Windows or macOS you'd be at the mercy of the developer

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having good instructions and you'll probably need to use the terminal like

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shown here hold on a second you expect me to

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understand all this gibberish no in many cases it's just a universal way

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to provide an easier installation experience for people until the software's available in their package

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manager how is this easier don't be intimidated you can just copy

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and paste if it's a reputable piece of software there's a little harm in it

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even if you don't understand what's happening the terminal isn't something

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that needs to be scary it's just old-fashioned feeling but think of it

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this way how often have you been digging through settings trying to figure out where that

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one button is true if you know exactly what you want your

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computer to do and that includes copying these lines

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it's the fastest and simplest way to go and by the way this even applies to

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Windows and macOS 2. okay so now with pop os i normally go to

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the pop shop and if it's not there i'd add a ppa but if it's not there then i

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just copy this stuff and it'll install how much more do i have to know to play

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games actually surprisingly little while it's

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not strictly necessary to get everything working we're primarily focused on

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making sure your drivers are up to date thankfully manjaro has the ability to

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install them for you in just a few clicks using the manjaro settings

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manager followed by a quick reboot but pop os has dedicated versions for AMD

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Intel and NVIDIA users with the drivers already pre-installed no fuss

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all that's left for you to do is install a piece of software called wine via the

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package manager that will let us run Windows programs and ensure all the prerequisites are

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installed for our next important item lutrus which is a game manager for Linux

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that can handle games not supported by steam what is this logo trying to be

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like an egg it's a little guy it's a little otter yeah okay so

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is it ready now can i play some games sure

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games like rocket league team fortress 2 and the most newer indie games actually

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are straight up available on steam for Linux without needing any compatibility

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layers or special setup so it just knows that i'm on a Linux pc and it's going to

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install the right one yeah sweet yep it's what valve calls steam play and i

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think you'll be surprised at just how many games are jumping to Linux there's

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over 5 000 native Linux games as of today including many aaa titles thanks

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to porting studios like feral interactive and that's not even including the growing support for proton

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just check out the excellent community run proton db site

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and what's more you can even enable proton for any game on steam by going to

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steam play in settings and checking a box

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but if you want to install games like starcraft 2 overwatch league of legends

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or if you're big on good old games or humble store you'll want to use lutrus

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which makes the process dead simple just grab one of the community-made

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installers from lucas.net and it does all the work for you configuring wine

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setting all the right variables installing all the support software all

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that stuff you used to have to do manually so why don't you just take for a spin

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all right so i got activities um

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you can go to that or you can go to lucrez.net

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either way click on the button where it says search lutras.net

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and click install do i have to install this directx 9

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yeah so this is going to launch battle.net you might need to still install starcraft but it says play it's

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playable uh i think you can launch multiplayer or something

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balls a wrath oh look at all the achievements i get

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just for logging in it's so great cool so it just looks like

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the game am i going to play do i get paid to play right now how many actions per minute do

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you have like 40. this is probably enough

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i got a gateway or i'm about to

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need to construct more pylons i have not enough minerals

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wait what my life for iron i'm out of here go oh this guy's gonna

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die for sure i'm not doing anything let's just let's let's end this now okay

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i played a game on Linux your first game on Linux i did it

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you said that there were some hoops that had to be jumped through but to be clear

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you don't have any of that on popos or manjaro it's just it just all works like

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we saw yeah so ubuntu is due for an update like

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now which might fix some of that but for popos and manjaro and actually for a

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number of other distros we didn't cover today the steps basically boil down to install

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the os install steam or lutrus and start playing

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that's what makes these distros especially enticing for gamers but

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while manjaro is set up well to cater the gamers out of the box it's not going

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to be as stable as a distro like ubuntu and that's why popos and others like it

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try to bridge that gap with updated drivers while still retaining excellent

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community support and stable packages which makes them a good choice for

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getting your feet wet okay so what games am i

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least likely to be able to play and

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are there any gotchas there are a couple of caveats when it

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comes to gaming on Linux uh the biggest ones uh are problems with anti-cheat

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software and intrusive drm schemes and with switchable graphics like NVIDIA

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optimus thankfully with valve and talks with easy anti-sheet there's some hope for

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resolution on anti-cheat sometime soon but for switchable graphics right now

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ubuntu-based distros are the only ones that provide any real support out of the

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box like popolis and the workarounds for other distros

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aren't pretty to say nothing of Linux is HDR support right now which is zero

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you'll also lose access to most if not all of your dedicated RGB lighting

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controls hold up hey come on get back here

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yeah hold up there are some stand-ins for

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configuring peripherals like ckb next piper and anti-micro okay

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i'm listening just be prepared for limited support for external peripherals

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that rely on custom software especially for headsets and less

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mainstream brands in general but aside from that you know we keep saying it but

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it keeps turning out to be true getting into Linux is easier than ever and the

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rapid pace at which features are equal in Windows is only going to accelerate

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now that google stadia again a Linux based platform using vulcan

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is coming and because proton and stadia

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and videos working overtime to match AMD's already excellent open source

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drivers and wikis for arch and ubuntu are excellent resources for learning and

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troubleshooting plus the Linux gaming subreddit is huge

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thanks for your contributions you guys you rock

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and if you take all that together i mean it looks like we're in the middle of a

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renaissance the volta 2.0 magnetic cable is a sleek

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5 amp charge and sync magnetic cable that's standard usb on one end and then

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an open magnet on the other end and they've got a new reinforced design for

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all three tips so you can fit them into almost any phone case they've got usb

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it can charge in both directions it's got a new and improved blue led light on

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the side so you can still see it in the dark but it's easier on your eyes and no

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