1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,180 Co-Pilot, you need to opt out. 2 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:06,860 Windows update, you will own nothing and be happy. 3 00:00:06,860 --> 00:00:11,700 Ah! Oh, thank goodness it was just a dream. 4 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:15,920 For a second there, I thought Windows really was getting worse. 5 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:20,860 It wasn't a dream. Ah! Sorry, I was just scared for my privacy. 6 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:24,500 I didn't want to sleep in my own bed anymore. What are you doing here? 7 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:30,300 I heard that Linus was going to save us. Linux, Elijah, not Linus. 8 00:00:31,660 --> 00:00:36,820 He does have a valid concern though. With Microsoft adding more and more bloat 9 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:41,580 that negatively impacts the user experience and user privacy on Windows, 10 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:45,580 more people than ever are asking themselves, what can I do? 11 00:00:45,580 --> 00:00:50,500 Well, there's those Windows de-bloating scripts, but those aren't quite the silver bullet 12 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:55,940 that they're made out to be. And there is Mac, but that's not a great solution for gamers. 13 00:00:55,940 --> 00:01:00,060 That is where Linux comes in. As the rest of the world enchantifies 14 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:04,620 thanks to the incredible open source community and corporate sponsors like Valve, 15 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:09,020 Linux just keeps getting better. And I think it's high time 16 00:01:09,020 --> 00:01:12,620 that I try once again to make the switch. 17 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:16,100 And he's joining me. Hey, Elijah, wake up, let's go. 18 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:20,740 But tons of games I play don't work on Linux. Sure, but there's thousands of titles that do work. 19 00:01:20,740 --> 00:01:26,560 And besides, it's only a month, that is unless. You discover that you love it so much. 20 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,920 You don't even want to play Fortnite anymore. Maybe the only 90s you'll want to crank 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,800 are these 90 degree segues to our sponsor. 22 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,760 The first and possibly biggest hurdle when it comes to embracing that open source life 23 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,080 is the overwhelming number of options. Now, for some folks, 24 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:58,040 the idea of having so many choices, each catering to a specific user or use case is amazing. 25 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,400 And it is, especially if you love to tinker. But for everyone else, 26 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:07,960 choice paralysis is a real thing. And with literally dozens of viable options 27 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,880 for Linux distros, not to mention the social pressure that comes from picking the wrong one, 28 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,560 it can be a major turnoff. Last time we did this over four years ago, 29 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,480 I called out how terrible these listicle sites are. 30 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:26,000 And so did many others in the Linux community. And right out of the gate, I'm a freak. 31 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,560 These are just terrible, terrible options. 32 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,520 I don't expect much from this article. Let's have a look and see if they've improved. 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,920 Oh, XDA's article was from less than a month ago, though. And of course, the very first one 34 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:42,120 is one I haven't even heard of. Nobara Linux, built on Fedora, 35 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,560 quality of life tweaks, controller support out of the box, 36 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,120 POPOS, Fedora's on here. 37 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,560 Open Zusa tumbleweed, catchy OS. 38 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:59,440 This I've heard of, Endeavor OS, Ubuntu. Good Lord, you've hardly narrowed it down, bud. 39 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,800 Fedora KDE, straight up, that's it. No pros and cons of anything else, just go for it. 40 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,840 Unless you're going handheld, then Bazite. I'd really like a distro I can use across all my devices, 41 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,920 though, so that's AMD, NVIDIA, handheld, and desktop. 42 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:17,280 Let me see if that happens. POPOS is the easiest. There's shockingly little overlap on these. 43 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,600 I'm on my fourth article now, and three of the six options are ones 44 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,000 that I haven't seen yet. Holo ISO, Geruda Linux, and Manjaro. 45 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,880 Of course, Googling the answer is basically boomer behavior now. 46 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:34,320 If I wanted to do my thing, and I want to role play as a typical tech-interested gamer 47 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,240 who's looking to make the switch, I gotta fire up chat GPT, 48 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,680 and see what open AI has to say on the subject. 49 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,040 Giving you an essay there? Well, I'm giving it as much information 50 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,800 as I feel it needs to give me a good recommendation. I like to beep. 51 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,000 I want to make the switch to Linux. I have a variety of PCs, each with different needs, 52 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,040 and ideally, I could find a distro that works for all of them. 53 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,280 Recommendation number one, POPOS. Ubuntu LTS with game mode. 54 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Mmm, maybe not the greatest recommendation if it doesn't know what hardware I'm using. 55 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,080 Right, right there, cons. You have to manually install drivers sometimes. 56 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,560 Manjaro comes up again, Fedora. Starts giving me a whole, like, 57 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,600 how-to for some of the systems? 58 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,720 Tips for smooth multi-machine use. Use a single desktop environment, 59 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,600 and the same one across different machines. Bottom line, POPOS. 60 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,520 Ah, I don't know if I'm sure about that. Kinda got burned by them last time. 61 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,400 My approach was to go to Reddit, and I wanted to find someone that fit a similar profile as me, 62 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,880 and I just basically searched for what got the most updates. 63 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,840 But when I narrowed it down to gaming distros, there was really only a handful 64 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:48,880 that were commonly recommended to me these days. Manjaro, ChimeraOS, CasheOS, 65 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,920 Bazite, and POPExplanationMark underscore OS. 66 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,000 If your preferred flavor wasn't on that list, I promise it doesn't mean that it's bad. 67 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,720 It just means that I didn't come across many recommendations for it. So let's talk about the pros and the cons of those five. 68 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,680 ChimeraOS is cool, but seems to prioritize being more of a console-like experience, 69 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,120 which is not really what I'm going for. And the same goes for SteamOS. 70 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,120 It's still the one that I think is most likely to usher in the year of the Linux desktop, 71 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,720 and Valve has promised to continue chipping away at the desktop experience, 72 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,600 but it's still very much big picture first. Not to mention that the limited hardware support 73 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:31,280 is gonna be a challenge for, oh, I don't know, 90% of desktop users, including my downstairs PC, 74 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:36,400 which I'm also migrating this time to ensure that my immersion is complete. 75 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,440 For Manjaro and CasheOS, both based on Arch, by the way, 76 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,840 Manjaro's been around for several years at this point, meaning there's tons of documentation online, 77 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:47,160 or other independent YouTubers have made videos and guides. 78 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,880 It would make hopefully getting things working nice and easy. CasheOS is relatively new, but because it's new, 79 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,600 it kinda has the same thing. Tons of people are covering it and making guides online about using it. 80 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,480 Both of those could be a bonus for helping me get through this month. Like I mentioned before, 81 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,840 PopOS screwed me over pretty good last time. Though, from my understanding, 82 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,600 that was an insane bug that was present for less than 24 hours, 83 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,120 and I just happened to run up against. In general, it's known to provide 84 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,480 a very friendly experience for new users, and it uses Ubuntu as a base, 85 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,160 which can make it a little easier to find guides and other resources. 86 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,640 Last but not least, there's Bazite, which is explicitly gaming first 87 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,640 and has gained serious momentum over its short three-year history. 88 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,040 Thanks to the baked-in support for HDR and variable refresh rate, 89 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,560 easy integration with non-steam launchers and emulation-friendly features. 90 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,480 It's based on Fedora, which doesn't quite have the same enormous install base as Ubuntu, 91 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,840 but it is still a major distro, meaning, hopefully, 92 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:49,920 it shouldn't be too hard to find support again. On the subject of support, 93 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,000 there's no real reason that Elijah and I would have to figure 94 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,280 any of this out on our own. We could easily use our industry contacts 95 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:01,720 to get help with everything from choosing a distro to even getting a bug fix implemented in real time. 96 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,240 But to me, that kind of ruins the spirit of the challenge. 97 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,520 I mean, it's not like the average person would be able to contact Linus Torvalds 98 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,320 for help recompiling the kernel, you know? With all of that in mind, I'm going with Bazite, 99 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:20,280 specifically the KDE desktop environment. One, it's the cool new kid on the block. 100 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,400 Two, Bazite's documentation seemed slightly easier to parse through, 101 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,880 which for me is a huge W. And three, while it might be 102 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,440 a little bit more limiting than CacheOS, which several people warned me about, 103 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,640 those same people did tell me that it was a little bit easier for a first-timer. 104 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,240 I think I'm gonna take that trade off. Now, some of you may remember from my AMD upgrade two years ago, 105 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,200 I actually installed PopOS at the end. Spoiler alert, I haven't been using it. 106 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:49,000 I had an issue with my GoXLR, and I spent way too long trying to figure it out 107 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,240 that I ended up defaulting back to Windows 11. It's also worth mentioning 108 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,880 that I'm only going to be swapping over my gaming PC to Linux, not my streaming PC. 109 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,600 I can't afford to have any issues with that, and right now it just works. 110 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,960 And besides, all I hit is go live anyways. But who knows, if this goes well, 111 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:11,400 maybe I'll be considering swapping that one over. I, on the other hand, will be converting all of my PCs, 112 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:16,800 which means that I need something that's compatible with both GeForce and Radeon GPUs. 113 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,960 I will be converting all of my PCs to, 114 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,960 yeah, that's where the script ends. I have to actually decide now. 115 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,200 I'm going with PopOS. Just because it blew up on me once 116 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:32,120 doesn't mean it'll blow up on me. I'm gonna follow ChatGPT's recommendation here. 117 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,640 I'm gonna start with one machine, get everything going the way that I want it, 118 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,680 and then assuming that that goes well, I'm gonna stick with PopOS. 119 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:43,320 Okay, so who nailed this? ChatGPC got the way I was already leaning. 120 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,360 PopOS was the first recommendation from InterServer, 121 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,920 whatever this is. NVIDIA drivers handled cleanly. 122 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,040 Okay, PopOS. Drive me, daddy. 123 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,040 What, you guys started without me? 124 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,960 My side of this challenge probably won't be quite as bad as Linux's, 125 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,160 since I've been using Arch on my laptop for a while now, 126 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:13,400 by the way, and I've gotten pretty comfortable with it. That being said, my use case on my laptop is fairly limited, 127 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:18,040 so this is an expansion forward. I'm in, and I'm going with CacheOS. 128 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:23,560 The whole reason why I've been running Arch on my laptop was to try to demystify and defang 129 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,280 the scary experience of Linux for some people, because I wanted to show like, 130 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,840 look, I'm gonna put very little effort into this, to be completely honest, and I expect it's mostly gonna go okay. 131 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:36,200 But the reason for that was because my experience was limited mostly to a browser. 132 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,160 So I kind of want to continue the Arch experiments, 133 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,280 but in a way that the community is mostly flagging right now as better for gaming, 134 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,480 which is going the cache-y direction. I still love Linux Mint, 135 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,000 still use it in a couple spots here or there, just because I find it so like, 136 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,760 easy to get set up and going. But I know there were some comments under last challenge about my choice of Linux Mint, 137 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,480 or like, oh, it's not as updated as other things, or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 138 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,520 because the Linux community loves to just scream about stuff all the time. I wouldn't dissuade you from choosing it. 139 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,880 I'm just kind of doing an experiment thing with Arch and enjoying it right now. 140 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:12,720 So I'm gonna continue on to cache-y OS and hopefully it goes fine. 141 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,080 It is 803 and I am just about to start my Bazite installation. 142 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,240 Here we go, insert. Oh wait, crap, I gotta put the SSD in. 143 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,440 But I got, hey, you guys like my new server rack? Ah, it's pretty cool. 144 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,080 And Linus made fun of me saying I'd never see it again in the server rack case. 145 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,760 Now, some of you might actually ask why I'm ripping out both of my drives in my computer, 146 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,920 when Windows is probably only installed on one. Well, one thing I won't miss about Windows 147 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,080 is there's this really weird bug. Sometimes when you rip out one drive, 148 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,200 after you've installed it with two in it, it will show up in the boot option in the BIOS, 149 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,120 but it will just fail to boot. I don't know how that is still a bug on Windows 11, 150 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,280 but hey, I won't have to deal with that with Bazite, hopefully. 151 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,560 I have cache-y OS on this flash drive ready to go. 152 00:10:55,560 --> 00:11:00,400 But I ran into a problem. My motherboard has an m.2 slot here, 153 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,200 and m.2 slot here, here, and here. But I didn't build my system. 154 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,920 I don't know where my current drive is installed. It should be installed here, 155 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:13,320 but it was built by Linus's kid, so I have no idea. And my problem is, that's my system. 156 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,720 This is the Bulbasaur PC, right? Getting to the m.2s behind this GPU is gonna be insane. 157 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,000 Like, doing that without completely joining my computer is not really possible. 158 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,200 So hopefully I can remove this one little strip, and there's no drive there, and everything will be fine. 159 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,440 But if there is a drive there, I'm screwed. For no reason, other than that I'm a sucker for punishment, 160 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,800 I've decided to do my upgrade to popOS here at Whale Land. 161 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,920 I just gotta unplug my boot drive. I treated myself to an Optane drive a little while back, 162 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,720 and I just gotta disable secure boot, and then hopefully this is gonna be completely painless, 163 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,040 and I'll be gaming in like 15 minutes. 164 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,680 And we're off to a great start. Select your drive, can't see it. 165 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,880 Well, I put it in a known good slot. Turns out the drive is bad. 166 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,680 Why are these challenges always cursed? Downside of a multi-monitor setup, 167 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:01,920 this is my primary monitor, so we're trying to boot into the BIOS right now. 168 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,560 So we're gonna go into Fedora. Verifying shim s-bate date failed. 169 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,760 Something has gone seriously wrong. I've done nothing. 170 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,360 Okay, I think I saw something related to secure boot. It is enabled. 171 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,160 I'm gonna try disabling it. This OS version workstation, 172 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:23,240 it's past its end of life date. What? I downloaded it fresh from Bazite's website today. 173 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,760 That's a scary warning. So I did take this drive from the office. 174 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:32,000 I wonder if that's why it's showing up as LTT. Maybe I did happen to grab a drive 175 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,600 from work that had Fedora. I won't mark that against Bazite, 176 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,720 then that was 100% on me. Okay, we're booting up again. 177 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,960 Hey, there we go. Okay, Bazite. Yes, we wanna go into Live ISO 178 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,560 just so I can do the install. Hey, there you go, little Bazite logo. 179 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:51,600 Oh, this monitor lit up. Hey, there we go. Welcome to the Live ISO for Bazite. 180 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,320 How would you like to install? Oh yeah, so the drive I did grab had Fedora on it. 181 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,000 I wonder if this was the drive I used in the Linus Torvalds video. 182 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,160 Erase data and install. I will say, I think the default background's really pretty. 183 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,960 I might actually keep that. Kind of matches the keyboard colors, you know? While I'm waiting for an install, 184 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,120 I might as well do a merch plug. LTTstore.com, oh God, I punched my other camera. 185 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,680 LTTstore.com. All right, no drive under there. 186 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:21,080 You can see an empty slot. They didn't decorate over the screws. 187 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,680 W Linus' kids. Gamer time. 188 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:30,240 Welcome to Cash EOS. I used Rufus to flash my drive. 189 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,040 I got the M.2 installed and now we're here. So far the hardest part was getting it 190 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,600 to boot to the flash drive. I've been super interested in trying Hyperland, 191 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,000 but I think I'm gonna keep that for maybe something 192 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,560 on my laptop or something that I'm more happy 193 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:51,680 to just play with. You know, try to keep pretty much everything the same as what I'm used to except for Cash EOS 194 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:56,320 and just see how it goes. You know what, call in an audible. Let's give it a shot. 195 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,440 Lemonade or how I first read it 196 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,240 with my broken brain is Lamline. Sounds cool, looks cool. 197 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,800 Gonna go with Grubb, I'm just used to it. We're in, everything seems okay so far. 198 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:14,840 I wonder how many times Linus' brick is installed. All right, now that I have a working drive, 199 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,640 this is great, prompted to set up encryption right out of the gate. 200 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,640 You'll love to see it. Pretty painless setup so far. 201 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,560 Don't need this. This looks fine. 202 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,760 We're in, now I gotta play a game. Oh, hey, there you go, a secure boot key added. 203 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,760 Okay, well let's do a reboot. I assume I just leave it on Fedora. 204 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,920 What the frackle is this? 205 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,000 Do I have to do the secure boot thing? Try this again, error. 206 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,360 You need to load the kernel first. Okay, maybe I should read the documentation. 207 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:53,260 That's the error I was getting, so we're gonna use method B. Disable secure boot in the BIOS before proceeding 208 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:58,420 and then re-enable it after enrolling the key. I have to enter a command in the host terminal? 209 00:14:58,420 --> 00:15:01,780 Ugh, did I mess this up? You know what, I'm gonna try reinstalling it 210 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:06,860 with secure boot enabled this time. And, I don't wanna do that. 211 00:15:06,860 --> 00:15:13,020 That takes so long. Okay, well let's try reinstalling Bazite from the beginning 212 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:16,500 with secure boot on this time and we'll see if something's different. 213 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:21,500 All right, I've reinstalled it. Documentation says to reboot, enroll the keys. 214 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:25,780 Yes, it's just universal blue. I think I enabled it. 215 00:15:25,780 --> 00:15:29,820 Hey, there you go. I feel like I just went in a circle, but we'll let it cook. 216 00:15:29,820 --> 00:15:33,500 Hey, we're in. Okay, it did detect all three. 217 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:38,740 I kinda have a weird one that's off to the side here so I can like monitor chat when I do other stuff. 218 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:43,860 Oh, okay, not right now, Steam. That's kinda cool, got Steam pre-installed. 219 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:50,140 That'll be nice. Maybe I'll get a game up and running like real quick. All right, here comes the point where we tripped up last time. 220 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:54,580 Well, that was painless. I'm almost there, but before I can game with this man, 221 00:15:54,580 --> 00:15:58,700 I'm gonna need voice chat. So, we're getting Discord going. 222 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:03,500 I already got Left 4 Dead 2 installed. Already, there's some slightly icky things. 223 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:05,780 I have Discord working, which is super cool. 224 00:16:06,860 --> 00:16:09,660 Really? All right, I'm ready to launch the game. 225 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:16,020 What is this? What is this? The Linux curse might be coming for me. 226 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:19,460 Wait, it magically healed itself. Magically healed itself. Well, this is messed up. 227 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:25,740 I've got my Discord volume at 200%. I've got Luke's individual user volume at 170%. 228 00:16:25,740 --> 00:16:30,220 And I've got my system volume at 150%. And I can barely hear anybody. 229 00:16:30,220 --> 00:16:34,620 No, it's not you guys, it's me. I'm just experiencing Linux things. 230 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:38,540 But hey, it could be worse. I could be that guy at a LAN 231 00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:44,900 who's not running his game in full screen. Sup, Rob? All right, just rebooted and no game volume whatsoever. 232 00:16:44,940 --> 00:16:48,860 What about like a YouTube video? Okay, okay, that's loud. 233 00:16:48,860 --> 00:16:52,620 That's loud, that's a good sign. That is so bizarre. Okay, let's see if Discord is solved. 234 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:56,700 If Discord's solved, we're good. And then Discord maybe just magically healed itself? 235 00:16:56,700 --> 00:17:00,260 What's up gamers? Oh, we're good. So did your audio just require a restart? 236 00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:05,620 It's complicated. My system was set to like spit if out. So obviously that was why I was getting no audio in game. 237 00:17:05,620 --> 00:17:08,860 But that doesn't explain why I was getting extremely low audio in Discord. 238 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:12,860 Yeah, that's strange. It's that problem of like, why isn't this working? 239 00:17:12,860 --> 00:17:16,980 And then why is this working? Yeah, I'd rather have why isn't it working 240 00:17:16,980 --> 00:17:21,180 than why is it working? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, why did that change it? 241 00:17:21,180 --> 00:17:24,740 Whoa, do you see that? Since I have a dual PC setup in my server rack, 242 00:17:24,740 --> 00:17:28,900 this is my streaming PC that records. I was actually getting ready to record 243 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:32,100 and it's not quite scaled correct. 244 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:35,100 Like you can see I'm missing like half my task bar. 245 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:41,140 That was not a scaling thing. This monitor is not 4K. So I'm a little confused on why it's showing 4K as an option. 246 00:17:41,140 --> 00:17:44,260 I do normally set to 120 Hertz though. Oh, it made everything. 247 00:17:44,260 --> 00:17:47,580 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, why did that change it? Whoa, do you see that? 248 00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:50,940 It's scaled properly. But you know what scaled it properly 249 00:17:50,940 --> 00:17:55,660 is adjusting the frame rate. If I go to 140 on my OBS capture, 250 00:17:55,660 --> 00:18:01,520 it's not scaled right. But if I change it to 120 and apply it, 251 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,260 now it's scaled appropriately. Like my scaling is the same. 252 00:18:05,260 --> 00:18:08,340 My resolution is the same. Now that I've got these displays configured, 253 00:18:08,340 --> 00:18:11,860 Steam looked like it was already installing. So let's double check that. 254 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:15,420 Dude, are we gonna get a game going like that? 255 00:18:15,420 --> 00:18:20,420 I know it's not compatible. I'm still gonna download it because I want to try it. 256 00:18:20,420 --> 00:18:23,540 I won't blame any Bazite or Linux for it not working, 257 00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:27,500 but it's one of my go-to games right now. I need to test if PUBG is gonna work. 258 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:30,980 Do I need to enable the proton compatibility later? 259 00:18:30,980 --> 00:18:34,100 Hey, it's enabled right away. Oh yeah, look, it like installed it right here. 260 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:37,500 I guess while that's installing, maybe I can get some other apps going here. 261 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:43,580 Discord, hey, there it is. Oh, Discord is high risk. This app uses legacy x11 windowing system, 262 00:18:43,580 --> 00:18:47,880 which allows it to record all keystrokes, captures. It also has access to the internet, 263 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,180 meaning it could send your data to outside parties. 264 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:55,140 Ooh, this is very timely. Well, I need Discord, so I'm installing it. 265 00:18:55,140 --> 00:19:00,380 That warning as scary as it probably seems to a lot of people. I think it is kind of a cool thing 266 00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:03,620 that they're letting you know that it might be risky. 267 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:07,140 So if you're a non-experience user going to download something, 268 00:19:07,140 --> 00:19:11,340 it could give you a heads up like, whoa, whoa, whoa, just so you're aware, for Discord, 269 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:14,980 we already know they're stealing all our data anyways. I don't know. 270 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:18,380 Whoa, you can download Edge? Holy cow, you gotta be a psychopath. 271 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:22,620 High risk. Let's go through audio while everything's 272 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:25,900 installing really quick. It's showing up is huge. 273 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:30,900 I hear the mic is going directly to the roadcaster and the roadcaster should just pass out. 274 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:34,220 Hey, it's being detected. Wow, that was really fast, really? 275 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:37,380 I'm gonna call my wife really quick. Hello, hello. 276 00:19:37,380 --> 00:19:42,700 Yes, I can hear you. I didn't have to configure anything. That's a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, 277 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:47,380 but hey, the fact that I didn't have to troubleshoot it makes me very happy. 278 00:19:47,380 --> 00:19:50,820 Just installed it, instantly installed OBS. 279 00:19:50,820 --> 00:19:54,620 I had to restart my roadcaster, but then it worked immediately. 280 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:58,820 We'll see if the audio is fine. Seems like the audio was fine. Off to bigger and better things, 281 00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:03,340 so I'm gonna get Teams installed here because I need to do a work call. 282 00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:08,100 Well, the Teams call went fine, sort of. The Teams is still a very annoying experience 283 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:12,180 on Linux regardless of what Linux flavor you go with. 284 00:20:12,180 --> 00:20:17,900 There's no official app. I was using the Teams for Linux open source community thing. 285 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:22,660 It's like fine. There's some cludginess here and there. 286 00:20:22,660 --> 00:20:25,900 It seems like most of the community agrees that the best way to do it these days 287 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:30,340 is to just run it through the browser entirely, which I really don't prefer, 288 00:20:30,340 --> 00:20:35,220 but I'm gonna keep fighting with Teams for Linux and see if I can get it working in a state that I would like. 289 00:20:35,220 --> 00:20:39,740 I would say with the install it real quick, I've signed in and it works perfectly. 290 00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:44,140 No, not quite, but at least they're doing it. 291 00:20:44,140 --> 00:20:47,900 Not like Microsoft supporting it, so I appreciate the effort. 292 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:52,300 Another thing that I'd say is that gaming has been perfectly fine so far. 293 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:56,780 I'd say this fire is working, is working no problem. 294 00:20:56,780 --> 00:21:02,740 Gaming so far, going okay. No major hiccups with anything as of right now, 295 00:21:02,740 --> 00:21:09,220 but I'll let you know if things change. Well, Control-Alt-Delete doesn't do anything. 296 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:12,380 Alt-Tab allows me to switch to things, 297 00:21:12,380 --> 00:21:15,660 but my mouse is not there. Like I'm hearing like, 298 00:21:15,660 --> 00:21:19,460 gree, gree, gree, gree, gree, like in my ears. This is so awesome. 299 00:21:19,460 --> 00:21:23,220 I managed to play a game for 20 seconds. I must just be cursed. 300 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:27,580 Like I just, I have to be cursed at this point. Okay, I managed to find this. 301 00:21:27,580 --> 00:21:31,020 I'm gonna try to end the process, Half-Life 2, I think. 302 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:34,260 Is this, hello? Delet? Is that not gonna work? 303 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:35,460 It's not gonna do anything? 304 00:21:37,460 --> 00:21:41,380 Yeah, I have seven people waiting for me because I'm a special Linux snowflake right now. 305 00:21:41,380 --> 00:21:44,940 I don't understand why trying to do the most 306 00:21:44,940 --> 00:21:48,160 basicest of things, launch a Valve game 307 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,780 on a fresh install, manages to be like this. 308 00:21:51,780 --> 00:21:55,220 I'm even on AMD, guys. I'm on AMD. I'm going back to Windows for now 309 00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:59,420 because this is just, it's not acceptable. I have to be able to play the game right now. 310 00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:02,740 Okay, the last thing now, I think, I'm just gonna game. 311 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:07,380 Ooh, it's got a Borked rating. As of two weeks ago, someone said it's Borked. 312 00:22:07,380 --> 00:22:13,460 So, yikes. I won't blame any Bazite or Linux for it not working. 313 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:16,620 Judging by how long it's taking, that's not a good sign. 314 00:22:16,620 --> 00:22:20,100 Ah, a month without PUBG. Ah. 315 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,220 Okay, well, let's launch Bellatro. Hey, there we go. 316 00:22:23,220 --> 00:22:26,980 All right, we finished the round, it's the next day and I'm gonna see if I can figure out 317 00:22:26,980 --> 00:22:30,500 what the heck was going on there. Off to a great start. 318 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:35,220 All right, I'm just playing single player now. Let's see how this goes. 319 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:37,420 All right, this is how far I made it last time. 320 00:22:42,460 --> 00:22:46,340 Try running it in Vulcan. Unfortunately, there's no in-game setting for it, 321 00:22:46,340 --> 00:22:48,300 but apparently this will do the trick. 322 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:54,860 And there it is, that was the fix. Not complicated, but definitely frustrating 323 00:22:54,860 --> 00:23:00,220 when you consider that this is a first-party Valve title and the bugginess is so immediately apparent 324 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:04,540 when you try to play the game. And there's also apparently been an issue since 325 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:08,900 at least July of last year. To be clear, none of this is meant to discount 326 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:13,700 the experiences that other people have. It's just to also acknowledge that not everybody has 327 00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:17,220 such a seamless experience. With Left 4 Dead solved, our next challenge 328 00:23:17,220 --> 00:23:21,020 is gonna be Hell Divers 2. We're gonna be playing with the VIPs I've never played before, 329 00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:25,220 so I am finding so much weird stuff, dude. 330 00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:28,460 It like turned into two black Windows that then turned into this. 331 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:32,460 Oh, whoa, check this out. Why am I cursed like this? 332 00:23:32,460 --> 00:23:37,220 Opening cinematic played okay, and this looks promising other than the weird white line that I have 333 00:23:37,220 --> 00:23:40,220 at the left and top for some reason. 334 00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:43,900 Is the mouse supposed to do anything? It's supposed to do something. 335 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:47,900 Hold on, here's an idea. Okay, so look up, we can rebind that. 336 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:48,940 Let's go left click. 337 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:55,180 Okay, hey, controller works. I guess I'm gaming on a controller, boys. 338 00:23:55,180 --> 00:24:01,060 So I'm gonna install Dolphin. Oh, wait, Dolphin's the name of the file manager, right? 339 00:24:01,060 --> 00:24:05,060 Oh, speaking of files, I should try to mount my network share. 340 00:24:05,060 --> 00:24:10,140 So network, shared folders, SMB. Oh, dude, is it gonna find it for me? 341 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:15,820 Whoa, it found it for me. Hell yeah, ad, can I pin them to the side? 342 00:24:15,820 --> 00:24:20,980 Oh, I can. Oh, that's kinda nice. That was really easy to mount my network share. 343 00:24:20,980 --> 00:24:23,820 And these are SMB set as default app. 344 00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:32,460 Hey, there you go, hey, I set VLC as a default app. I'm feeling pretty decent right now. 345 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:35,460 I have my audio working, I have a game running, 346 00:24:35,460 --> 00:24:40,100 I have my SMB share mounted. The most painful roadblock was by far 347 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:43,940 like getting it to this point. A quick recap on what happened with the secure boot thing 348 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:49,140 was I turned secure boot off because I thought that's what it needed when the Fedora drive 349 00:24:49,140 --> 00:24:54,180 that I accidentally grabbed from work was asking for it. Then when I installed Bazite, it was, 350 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:58,740 hey, turn secure boot on, I don't have it on, I have your key, but after I installed it, 351 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:05,260 I think I might have gotten a little bit confused or chose the wrong thing when it asked me to enroll it. 352 00:25:05,260 --> 00:25:08,300 I needed to make sure that secure boot was on first 353 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:11,700 and now that it was on when I installed it, it was pretty painless. 354 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:18,740 I do think it's a little weird that they still wanted me to type universal blue when I was enabling the keys. 355 00:25:18,740 --> 00:25:22,940 I'm not really sure why. I do wonder how much it'll help me in the future 356 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:26,340 if there's a software or a game that requires secure boot. 357 00:25:26,740 --> 00:25:30,180 I wonder if Linus is gonna have as smooth of a time 358 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:33,260 or if his is gonna be a little bit worse. 359 00:25:33,260 --> 00:25:36,540 Well, this is remarkable. I'm up to three steam Windows now. 360 00:25:36,540 --> 00:25:41,060 Nope, can't type. After I figured out the control issues, we did manage to get through the entire 361 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:45,940 Helldivers mission with no further complications. So while I wouldn't call today a success, 362 00:25:45,940 --> 00:25:50,820 it also wasn't a complete failure. And I think I'm ready to do a little bit more Googling, 363 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:54,980 learn a bit more, figure out what the heck is going on with my steam interface here. 364 00:25:54,980 --> 00:25:59,260 Now it is worth noting that while I am obviously showing a lot of the problems I'm having today, 365 00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:03,180 I'm not trying to make Linux look bad or anything. And there were aspects of the experience 366 00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:07,100 that were much better. For instance, setting up PopOS 367 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,820 involved none of my data being given away. And maybe more importantly, 368 00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:15,620 if you don't like futzing about with things, is I had to do nothing to get all of my various devices 369 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:20,820 working, no going to the manufacturer's website, downloading drivers, none of that nonsense. 370 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:24,700 The convenience of the Cosmic Store and it being something I might actually wanna use 371 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:28,420 unlike the Windows Store, pretty nice. And so far, I've gotta give it credit 372 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:32,900 for being pretty darn intuitive other than maybe the pressing the power button 373 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:38,980 to reach my settings. That has like Windows 95 per-her-you-press-start-to-shut-down 374 00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:43,860 kind of energy. With all that said, I'm excited about the next month and I hope you guys are excited to come along with us 375 00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:47,500 and excited to hear about our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, 376 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:51,660 why not check out the first episode of the last Linux challenge. 377 00:26:51,660 --> 00:26:55,220 Some stuff is kind of the same in that I seem to be cursed, 378 00:26:55,220 --> 00:26:58,700 but other stuff is different. I did get Papa West installed this time. 379 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:04,620 How are we framed? Is it? It doesn't look straight. I mean, that's probably the straightest thing 380 00:27:04,620 --> 00:27:07,700 about what's going on right now though. Ha ha ha ha. 381 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:14,140 Are you going to Eep into Box? What are you doing? Penini, were you in the shot the whole time? 382 00:27:14,140 --> 00:27:17,900 Penini. The Honkers Railway? 383 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:19,500 Oh, it's that Tonkai Star Rail.