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so many trapped in a world they think they can't escape

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so many with dread in their hearts as 10

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turns to 11. so many unanswered questions

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so many to save for some Linux may be the answer they've

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been looking for and Windows 11 could be their reason to finally try it

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but Anthony you say installing Linux is a complicated and scary process

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well here's the thing it's really not

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so let's go deeper and see for ourselves how easy it really is perhaps as easy as

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conceptually Linux is very different from Windows pretty much across the

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board some of these differences are primarily visual while others are much

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more fundamental if you've heard of Linux before you've probably heard that

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it's open now evangelists will tell you that that means free is in speech and

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this is true in that anyone can take a look at the source code and modify it as

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they see fit but what it means in practice is that not only is it able to

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support a wide variety of hardware it's also extremely customizable with

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desktops that can mimic the look and feel of any existing operating system or

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be something entirely unique you get control

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not only that you'll hear people say that it breathes new life into old pcs

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but why is that the reason is that the open nature of

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Linux means that it comes in many different flavors known as distributions

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or distros there are distros with lighter or heavier system requirements

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dramatically different aesthetics and even different ways of installing

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software now here's some good full feature desktop oriented ones if you've

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got one that you like best let us know why down below

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our example for today is going to be pop os by system 76 which is a good

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recommendation for new users not only because it's part of the well-known and

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well-documented ubuntu and debian lineage but it's also because it has a

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number of features and same defaults that make it friendlier and easier to

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get up and running start by downloading the iso now pop comes in two flavors one

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that includes the very special NVIDIA driver and one

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for everyone else you can use either but it's easiest to

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download the iso that best matches your system to reduce the number of steps

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required during installation now you could just burn it if you've got an

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optical drive and a blank dvd but if like most of us all you've got is a

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flash drive you can grab one of a couple of different tools the easiest of which

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being balina etcher it's so easy in fact that it's just three steps select the

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iso select the flash drive and then click flash for pop os that's all you

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need to do but if you've got an image for a different distro for example that fails

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to flash this way we look to a more versatile tool like rufus looking at the

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main window ignore the persistent partition size

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slider for now and look at the partition scheme option

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for most people mbr is perfectly fine because it supports both legacy BIOS

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boot and UEFI you'll really need to use the advanced

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options but the fixes for old BIOS's can help if you've got a very old computer

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you're trying to boot for file system you'll almost always

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want to choose fat32 now ntfs supports files that are larger than four

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gigabytes but it's less compatible overall

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you'll also always always want to choose the default cluster size

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larger clusters can improve transfer performance for larger files at the

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expense of smaller files and vice versa finally you can choose to create an

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extended label in icon files which just makes your flash drive show up in a

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fancier way on Windows if you fancy like that all that's left

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is to click start and wait for it to do its thing if all went well you're now

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the proud owner of a flash drive with Linux on it congratulations it's a

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penguin time to plug it in and give it a whirl power on your pc and enter the

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BIOS we'll need to first make sure the flash drive is shown up

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and is first in the boot order and second we need to make sure that secure

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boot is disabled otherwise you'll just get this fun

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message when you try to boot fedora and ubuntu both support it but as

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far as i know every other distro out there including popos does not unless

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you do it yourself blame microsoft in most desktop BIOS's

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disabling secubit requires the key store to be deleted like this

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but laptops all in ones and pre-builts may have a simple toggle save and exit

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and you should be booting from your flash drive and you can do it after the

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first screen you'll be treated to an impressive looking array of very

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technical messages Linux boots up these make troubleshooting a lot easier if it

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stops part way through some distros cover them up with a boot screen but you

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can usually hit escape to show them again it may take a little while to boot

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after the final message so give it a minute before assuming something is going wrong if all goes well you'll be

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looking at the popos desktop and an install popos window will come right up

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choose your language and region then choose your keyboard layout english us

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default will work for most but you can choose alternative layouts here like

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dvorak and cola mac next pop os will give you the option of

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customizing your install just like lcdstore.com lets you customize your

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water bottle with free stickers nice

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now if you're super eager to get going you can go through the installer now but

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if you'd like to poke around in an environment where you can't break anything now is a great time to do that

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by clicking try demo mode this is pretty much the same thing

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you're going to get after a default install and it's a great opportunity to

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make sure that all your hardware is up and running particularly your audio your

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networking and your display driver once you're finished poking around it's

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time to come back to the installer a clean install is the most

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straightforward so let's go ahead and choose that option choose the drive you want to install to

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and then you'll be brought to the account setup screen a username will automatically generate

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based on your full name but you can change it if you prefer

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click next choose a password then the next step is to install the files once

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it's finished reboot and you'll boot right into pop os now if you don't make

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sure it's selected as a default boot device in your BIOS it should show up as

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pop os like so once you're booted into pop os log in

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and you'll be greeted with the post install setup unlike a certain other

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operating system this only features a single privacy setting with everything

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else being things like typing time zone and how you want your doctor and top

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part or looking function i like it best when it's set up like this but you're

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not limited to any one layout if you're okay with installing extensions later on

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popos uses a common desktop environment called gnome but system 76 76's homebrew

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extensions installed here's my layout at home it's kind of a not Windows looking

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setup similar to a different desktop environment called plasma depending on

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how fresh your iso was pop shop will ping you at this point saying that there

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are updates available now this is your app store go ahead and

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launch it and click the installed tab to download any updates that are waiting

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then you can start to install your apps it's ridiculously easy to do

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discord one click obs one click steam

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one click needing game performance metrics and

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logging grab go relay emulators they've got retroarch dolphin maim dosbox you

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never even had to open a browser i hate opening browsers

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now that's not to say that the interface is perfect clicking on a category will

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just give you an alphabetical listing of software with no sub-categories or

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filters which can be overwhelming to say the least when you're just browsing

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and advanced users will notice that some under the hood packages aren't listed at

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all with no obvious way to change that you can install the synaptic package

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manager to get both of those features though the only problem is that it's far less

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user friendly thankfully if there's something that you

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need that's simply not available at all you can add an extra source in pop shop

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settings most software has a launchpad or personal package archive that you can

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add there as the name suggests these are curated by the authors or users rather

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than the regular operating system maintainers so only use these for

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software you trust wine the software that allows you to run

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Windows programs on Linux is a good example of this because the version

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included in popshop is quite old however the developers have decided to

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host their own and provide instructions separately so we'll have to use the

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terminal instead now don't worry too much this isn't very

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common and because we trust wine we can just copy these commands and paste them

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into the terminal like so once you're done go ahead and type this command to

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finally install the latest stable version of wine now you can exit the

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terminal i also recommend installing wine tricks while we're at it to manage

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our Windows settings to be clear you don't need any of this

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to run games through steam which launches Windows games through its own

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included proton layer after all your installs are done open the applications

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drawer and you'll see that they're ready to rock no extra steps required

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steam opens right up and you can log in as normal before you go wild installing

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games though you should enable proton for all titles under steam play in steam

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settings menu click ok steam will restart and you're good to go

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cool right like i can just straight up install cyberpunk for example and it'll

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work in fact it works really well for a game with a silver rating like it must

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have been like a recent update or something i don't know you can check how

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well the game is expected to run as well as how it ran in the past

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and whether anything special needs to be done to get it working on proton db

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the vast majority of games work out of the box although with some caveats we'll

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get to shortly but first if you have an NVIDIA GPU

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shadow play doesn't exist in Linux and that's a problem

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but what if i told you there's a way to get something even better

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it's a couple extra steps and we're going to have to use the terminal to do

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it but trust me it's very worth it first download the code from the NVIDIA

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patch repository and extract the zip file then go to the folder you just extracted

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right click the empty space and click open in terminal next type this command

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and hit enter this will enable nvfbc or frame buffer capture the extremely fast

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method that shadowplay uses to capture the screen and something NVIDIA normally

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has disabled for GeForce cards by default that wasn't so hard but we still

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had to install the plugin for obs to use unfortunately there's no package for it

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in popos or ubuntu right now so we'll have to download it ourselves to be

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clear this is one of the last options you want to use as far as installing

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software download the code from this repository then extract it go to the

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folder and open it into the terminal like before now we need to install some

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things before we can actually continue so type this command hit enter enter

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your password now type these commands hitting enter after each one and once that's done you

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can go back to the files window go to the build folder and copy this file

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go to your home folder show hidden files then go here make a new folder called

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plugins then in there make new folders that look like this and paste the file

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you copied before and you're done Linux veterans will point out that we could

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have done a lot of this more quickly if we'd done more of it in the terminal and

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that's true the terminal is really handy for a lot of things especially for

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tutorials where it's the only truly common factor between Linux

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distributions but contrary to popular belief it's not

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necessary most of the time it's just faster or easier if you know

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what you're doing if you aren't familiar with it using it in short bursts like this can help you

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get acclimated and learn what can be done just by typing a few words now we

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can go to obs and add the mvfbc source to our scene and look at that high

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resolution high frame rate screen capture with very little overhead just

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like shadow play if you open up system monitor which is kind of like the

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Windows task manager you'll see very little CPU usage you can

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combine this with nbang for high performance gameplay streaming and recording too

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oh and did i mention that most game controllers just work out of the box the

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list of devices that Linux supports is much larger than the list it doesn't and

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the majority of those are a result of a company not releasing the driver or at

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least not releasing the information relevant for making one from scratch

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NVIDIA's much maligned proprietary driver on the other hand works pretty

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well and has been getting some serious attention from team green recently with

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dlss and ray tracing support and more the pop os comes with the latest drivers

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and updates for them come down through the pop shop like everything else

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so if installing Linux isn't that big of a

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hassle why haven't more people jumped on board

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well the main problem at least in the past is that for all the freedom and

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control you're getting from Linux you had to give up performance or

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functionality or both especially in gaming

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but since the release of valve's wine based proton compatibility layer in 2018

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things have been exploding to the point where the vast majority of steam games

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run flawlessly on Linux with no configuration necessary the biggest

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issue for Linux gamers is the fact that many anti-cheat

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programs still don't work properly at all meaning that games like pubg apex

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legends destiny 2 and rainbow six siege are just presently unplayable despite

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working in offline mode this spills over into productivity apps like microsoft

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office and creative cloud where their anti-piracy implementations fail to

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authenticate thanks to reliance on an integrated internet explorer yeah

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disgusting but compatibility is rapidly

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advancing so get subscribed so you don't miss our annual ish Linux gaming update

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at the end of the day my personal advice is to use the tools

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that fit you best whether that's Windows macOS Linux or even something else

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entirely and if these compatibility issues are showstoppers for you i'm not

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going to wag my finger at you and expect you to find an alternative what i am

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going to do though is ask you to give it a try and see if the alternatives work

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for you i find immense joy in trying new things

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and finding better ways of doing what i like to do and with Linux the sheer number of

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different ways of doing things means you're extremely likely to find

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something anything at all that works better for you than what you're doing

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right now you have only to look for it

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and hey maybe that thing is our sponsor war thunder war thunder is a free to

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the 1930s to 1990s have attracted more than 34 million players from all over

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the world myself included you can take part in massive combined arms battles on

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more than 80 major battlefields from world war ii to the end of the cold war

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and is still in active development with free major updates every couple of months and even more content always

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coming through including vehicles maps and new gameplay features head to the

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our recent video on how to install Windows 11 to get a sense of how

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difficult or not this was by comparison