WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.180 Co-Pilot, you need to opt out. 00:00:03.180 --> 00:00:06.860 Windows update, you will own nothing and be happy. 00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:11.700 Ah! Oh, thank goodness it was just a dream. 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:15.920 For a second there, I thought Windows really was getting worse. 00:00:17.380 --> 00:00:20.860 It wasn't a dream. Ah! Sorry, I was just scared for my privacy. 00:00:20.860 --> 00:00:24.500 I didn't want to sleep in my own bed anymore. What are you doing here? 00:00:24.500 --> 00:00:30.300 I heard that Linus was going to save us. Linux, Elijah, not Linus. 00:00:31.660 --> 00:00:36.820 He does have a valid concern though. With Microsoft adding more and more bloat 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:41.580 that negatively impacts the user experience and user privacy on Windows, 00:00:41.580 --> 00:00:45.580 more people than ever are asking themselves, what can I do? 00:00:45.580 --> 00:00:50.500 Well, there's those Windows de-bloating scripts, but those aren't quite the silver bullet 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. 00:00:55.940 --> 00:01:00.060 That is where Linux comes in. As the rest of the world enchantifies 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:04.620 thanks to the incredible open source community and corporate sponsors like Valve, 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:09.020 Linux just keeps getting better. And I think it's high time 00:01:09.020 --> 00:01:12.620 that I try once again to make the switch. 00:01:12.620 --> 00:01:16.100 And he's joining me. Hey, Elijah, wake up, let's go. 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. 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. 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 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.800 are these 90 degree segues to our sponsor. 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:48.760 The first and possibly biggest hurdle when it comes to embracing that open source life 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.080 is the overwhelming number of options. Now, for some folks, 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. 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:02.400 And it is, especially if you love to tinker. But for everyone else, 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.960 choice paralysis is a real thing. And with literally dozens of viable options 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:12.880 for Linux distros, not to mention the social pressure that comes from picking the wrong one, 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.560 it can be a major turnoff. Last time we did this over four years ago, 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.480 I called out how terrible these listicle sites are. 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. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.560 These are just terrible, terrible options. 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. 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 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:42.120 is one I haven't even heard of. Nobara Linux, built on Fedora, 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:46.560 quality of life tweaks, controller support out of the box, 00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:50.120 POPOS, Fedora's on here. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.560 Open Zusa tumbleweed, catchy OS. 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. 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. 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, 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.920 though, so that's AMD, NVIDIA, handheld, and desktop. 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. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:20.600 I'm on my fourth article now, and three of the six options are ones 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:25.000 that I haven't seen yet. Holo ISO, Geruda Linux, and Manjaro. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.880 Of course, Googling the answer is basically boomer behavior now. 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 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:38.240 who's looking to make the switch, I gotta fire up chat GPT, 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.680 and see what open AI has to say on the subject. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.040 Giving you an essay there? Well, I'm giving it as much information 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:48.800 as I feel it needs to give me a good recommendation. I like to beep. 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, 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.040 and ideally, I could find a distro that works for all of them. 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:02.280 Recommendation number one, POPOS. Ubuntu LTS with game mode. 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.960 Mmm, maybe not the greatest recommendation if it doesn't know what hardware I'm using. 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:11.080 Right, right there, cons. You have to manually install drivers sometimes. 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.560 Manjaro comes up again, Fedora. Starts giving me a whole, like, 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.600 how-to for some of the systems? 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.720 Tips for smooth multi-machine use. Use a single desktop environment, 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:27.600 and the same one across different machines. Bottom line, POPOS. 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. 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, 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:39.880 and I just basically searched for what got the most updates. 00:04:39.880 --> 00:04:43.840 But when I narrowed it down to gaming distros, there was really only a handful 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:48.880 that were commonly recommended to me these days. Manjaro, ChimeraOS, CasheOS, 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:51.920 Bazite, and POPExplanationMark underscore OS. 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. 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. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.680 ChimeraOS is cool, but seems to prioritize being more of a console-like experience, 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:12.120 which is not really what I'm going for. And the same goes for SteamOS. 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, 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.720 and Valve has promised to continue chipping away at the desktop experience, 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 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, 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:36.400 which I'm also migrating this time to ensure that my immersion is complete. 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:39.440 For Manjaro and CasheOS, both based on Arch, by the way, 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, 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:47.160 or other independent YouTubers have made videos and guides. 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, 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. 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, 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.840 PopOS screwed me over pretty good last time. Though, from my understanding, 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:09.600 that was an insane bug that was present for less than 24 hours, 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.120 and I just happened to run up against. In general, it's known to provide 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.480 a very friendly experience for new users, and it uses Ubuntu as a base, 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.160 which can make it a little easier to find guides and other resources. 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.640 Last but not least, there's Bazite, which is explicitly gaming first 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:29.640 and has gained serious momentum over its short three-year history. 00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:33.040 Thanks to the baked-in support for HDR and variable refresh rate, 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:37.560 easy integration with non-steam launchers and emulation-friendly features. 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, 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.840 but it is still a major distro, meaning, hopefully, 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:49.920 it shouldn't be too hard to find support again. On the subject of support, 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.000 there's no real reason that Elijah and I would have to figure 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.280 any of this out on our own. We could easily use our industry contacts 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. 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.240 But to me, that kind of ruins the spirit of the challenge. 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.520 I mean, it's not like the average person would be able to contact Linus Torvalds 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, 00:07:15.320 --> 00:07:20.280 specifically the KDE desktop environment. One, it's the cool new kid on the block. 00:07:20.280 --> 00:07:24.400 Two, Bazite's documentation seemed slightly easier to parse through, 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:27.880 which for me is a huge W. And three, while it might be 00:07:27.880 --> 00:07:31.440 a little bit more limiting than CacheOS, which several people warned me about, 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. 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, 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:44.200 I actually installed PopOS at the end. Spoiler alert, I haven't been using it. 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 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.240 that I ended up defaulting back to Windows 11. It's also worth mentioning 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. 00:07:56.880 --> 00:08:00.600 I can't afford to have any issues with that, and right now it just works. 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.960 And besides, all I hit is go live anyways. But who knows, if this goes well, 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, 00:08:11.400 --> 00:08:16.800 which means that I need something that's compatible with both GeForce and Radeon GPUs. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.960 I will be converting all of my PCs to, 00:08:19.960 --> 00:08:23.960 yeah, that's where the script ends. I have to actually decide now. 00:08:23.960 --> 00:08:27.200 I'm going with PopOS. Just because it blew up on me once 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. 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:35.640 I'm gonna start with one machine, get everything going the way that I want it, 00:08:35.640 --> 00:08:38.680 and then assuming that that goes well, I'm gonna stick with PopOS. 00:08:38.680 --> 00:08:43.320 Okay, so who nailed this? ChatGPC got the way I was already leaning. 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.360 PopOS was the first recommendation from InterServer, 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.920 whatever this is. NVIDIA drivers handled cleanly. 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:54.040 Okay, PopOS. Drive me, daddy. 00:08:54.040 --> 00:08:59.040 What, you guys started without me? 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.960 My side of this challenge probably won't be quite as bad as Linux's, 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.160 since I've been using Arch on my laptop for a while now, 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, 00:09:13.400 --> 00:09:18.040 so this is an expansion forward. I'm in, and I'm going with CacheOS. 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 00:09:23.560 --> 00:09:27.280 the scary experience of Linux for some people, because I wanted to show like, 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. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.200 But the reason for that was because my experience was limited mostly to a browser. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.160 So I kind of want to continue the Arch experiments, 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:44.280 but in a way that the community is mostly flagging right now as better for gaming, 00:09:44.280 --> 00:09:47.480 which is going the cache-y direction. I still love Linux Mint, 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, 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, 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, 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. 00:10:04.520 --> 00:10:07.880 I'm just kind of doing an experiment thing with Arch and enjoying it right now. 00:10:07.880 --> 00:10:12.720 So I'm gonna continue on to cache-y OS and hopefully it goes fine. 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:17.080 It is 803 and I am just about to start my Bazite installation. 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.240 Here we go, insert. Oh wait, crap, I gotta put the SSD in. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.440 But I got, hey, you guys like my new server rack? Ah, it's pretty cool. 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. 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, 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 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:40.080 is there's this really weird bug. Sometimes when you rip out one drive, 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, 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, 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.280 but hey, I won't have to deal with that with Bazite, hopefully. 00:10:52.280 --> 00:10:55.560 I have cache-y OS on this flash drive ready to go. 00:10:55.560 --> 00:11:00.400 But I ran into a problem. My motherboard has an m.2 slot here, 00:11:00.400 --> 00:11:04.200 and m.2 slot here, here, and here. But I didn't build my system. 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.920 I don't know where my current drive is installed. It should be installed here, 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. 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. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.000 Like, doing that without completely joining my computer is not really possible. 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. 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, 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.800 I've decided to do my upgrade to popOS here at Whale Land. 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, 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:43.720 and I just gotta disable secure boot, and then hopefully this is gonna be completely painless, 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.040 and I'll be gaming in like 15 minutes. 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:51.680 And we're off to a great start. Select your drive, can't see it. 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:54.880 Well, I put it in a known good slot. Turns out the drive is bad. 00:11:54.880 --> 00:11:58.680 Why are these challenges always cursed? Downside of a multi-monitor setup, 00:11:58.680 --> 00:12:01.920 this is my primary monitor, so we're trying to boot into the BIOS right now. 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:06.560 So we're gonna go into Fedora. Verifying shim s-bate date failed. 00:12:06.560 --> 00:12:09.760 Something has gone seriously wrong. I've done nothing. 00:12:09.760 --> 00:12:13.360 Okay, I think I saw something related to secure boot. It is enabled. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:18.160 I'm gonna try disabling it. This OS version workstation, 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. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.760 That's a scary warning. So I did take this drive from the office. 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 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.600 from work that had Fedora. I won't mark that against Bazite, 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.720 then that was 100% on me. Okay, we're booting up again. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:42.960 Hey, there we go. Okay, Bazite. Yes, we wanna go into Live ISO 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:46.560 just so I can do the install. Hey, there you go, little Bazite logo. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:51.600 Oh, this monitor lit up. Hey, there we go. Welcome to the Live ISO for Bazite. 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. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.000 I wonder if this was the drive I used in the Linus Torvalds video. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.160 Erase data and install. I will say, I think the default background's really pretty. 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, 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. 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.680 LTTstore.com. All right, no drive under there. 00:13:15.680 --> 00:13:21.080 You can see an empty slot. They didn't decorate over the screws. 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.680 W Linus' kids. Gamer time. 00:13:24.680 --> 00:13:30.240 Welcome to Cash EOS. I used Rufus to flash my drive. 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 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:39.600 to boot to the flash drive. I've been super interested in trying Hyperland, 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.000 but I think I'm gonna keep that for maybe something 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.560 on my laptop or something that I'm more happy 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 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. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.440 Lemonade or how I first read it 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.240 with my broken brain is Lamline. Sounds cool, looks cool. 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. 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, 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.640 this is great, prompted to set up encryption right out of the gate. 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:21.640 You'll love to see it. Pretty painless setup so far. 00:14:21.640 --> 00:14:25.560 Don't need this. This looks fine. 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. 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:36.760 Okay, well let's do a reboot. I assume I just leave it on Fedora. 00:14:36.760 --> 00:14:39.920 What the frackle is this? 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:44.000 Do I have to do the secure boot thing? Try this again, error. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.360 You need to load the kernel first. Okay, maybe I should read the documentation. 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 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? 00:14:58.420 --> 00:15:01.780 Ugh, did I mess this up? You know what, I'm gonna try reinstalling it 00:15:01.780 --> 00:15:06.860 with secure boot enabled this time. And, I don't wanna do that. 00:15:06.860 --> 00:15:13.020 That takes so long. Okay, well let's try reinstalling Bazite from the beginning 00:15:13.020 --> 00:15:16.500 with secure boot on this time and we'll see if something's different. 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:21.500 All right, I've reinstalled it. Documentation says to reboot, enroll the keys. 00:15:21.500 --> 00:15:25.780 Yes, it's just universal blue. I think I enabled it. 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. 00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:33.500 Hey, we're in. Okay, it did detect all three. 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. 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:43.860 Oh, okay, not right now, Steam. That's kinda cool, got Steam pre-installed. 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. 00:15:50.140 --> 00:15:54.580 Well, that was painless. I'm almost there, but before I can game with this man, 00:15:54.580 --> 00:15:58.700 I'm gonna need voice chat. So, we're getting Discord going. 00:15:58.700 --> 00:16:03.500 I already got Left 4 Dead 2 installed. Already, there's some slightly icky things. 00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:05.780 I have Discord working, which is super cool. 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:09.660 Really? All right, I'm ready to launch the game. 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:16.020 What is this? What is this? The Linux curse might be coming for me. 00:16:16.020 --> 00:16:19.460 Wait, it magically healed itself. Magically healed itself. Well, this is messed up. 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%. 00:16:25.740 --> 00:16:30.220 And I've got my system volume at 150%. And I can barely hear anybody. 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:34.620 No, it's not you guys, it's me. I'm just experiencing Linux things. 00:16:34.620 --> 00:16:38.540 But hey, it could be worse. I could be that guy at a LAN 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. 00:16:44.940 --> 00:16:48.860 What about like a YouTube video? Okay, okay, that's loud. 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. 00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:56.700 If Discord's solved, we're good. And then Discord maybe just magically healed itself? 00:16:56.700 --> 00:17:00.260 What's up gamers? Oh, we're good. So did your audio just require a restart? 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. 00:17:05.620 --> 00:17:08.860 But that doesn't explain why I was getting extremely low audio in Discord. 00:17:08.860 --> 00:17:12.860 Yeah, that's strange. It's that problem of like, why isn't this working? 00:17:12.860 --> 00:17:16.980 And then why is this working? Yeah, I'd rather have why isn't it working 00:17:16.980 --> 00:17:21.180 than why is it working? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, why did that change it? 00:17:21.180 --> 00:17:24.740 Whoa, do you see that? Since I have a dual PC setup in my server rack, 00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:28.900 this is my streaming PC that records. I was actually getting ready to record 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:32.100 and it's not quite scaled correct. 00:17:32.100 --> 00:17:35.100 Like you can see I'm missing like half my task bar. 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. 00:17:41.140 --> 00:17:44.260 I do normally set to 120 Hertz though. Oh, it made everything. 00:17:44.260 --> 00:17:47.580 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, why did that change it? Whoa, do you see that? 00:17:47.580 --> 00:17:50.940 It's scaled properly. But you know what scaled it properly 00:17:50.940 --> 00:17:55.660 is adjusting the frame rate. If I go to 140 on my OBS capture, 00:17:55.660 --> 00:18:01.520 it's not scaled right. But if I change it to 120 and apply it, 00:18:01.520 --> 00:18:05.260 now it's scaled appropriately. Like my scaling is the same. 00:18:05.260 --> 00:18:08.340 My resolution is the same. Now that I've got these displays configured, 00:18:08.340 --> 00:18:11.860 Steam looked like it was already installing. So let's double check that. 00:18:11.860 --> 00:18:15.420 Dude, are we gonna get a game going like that? 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. 00:18:20.420 --> 00:18:23.540 I won't blame any Bazite or Linux for it not working, 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. 00:18:27.500 --> 00:18:30.980 Do I need to enable the proton compatibility later? 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:34.100 Hey, it's enabled right away. Oh yeah, look, it like installed it right here. 00:18:34.100 --> 00:18:37.500 I guess while that's installing, maybe I can get some other apps going here. 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, 00:18:43.580 --> 00:18:47.880 which allows it to record all keystrokes, captures. It also has access to the internet, 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.180 meaning it could send your data to outside parties. 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:55.140 Ooh, this is very timely. Well, I need Discord, so I'm installing it. 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 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:03.620 that they're letting you know that it might be risky. 00:19:03.620 --> 00:19:07.140 So if you're a non-experience user going to download something, 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, 00:19:11.340 --> 00:19:14.980 we already know they're stealing all our data anyways. I don't know. 00:19:14.980 --> 00:19:18.380 Whoa, you can download Edge? Holy cow, you gotta be a psychopath. 00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:22.620 High risk. Let's go through audio while everything's 00:19:22.620 --> 00:19:25.900 installing really quick. It's showing up is huge. 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. 00:19:30.900 --> 00:19:34.220 Hey, it's being detected. Wow, that was really fast, really? 00:19:34.220 --> 00:19:37.380 I'm gonna call my wife really quick. Hello, hello. 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, 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:47.380 but hey, the fact that I didn't have to troubleshoot it makes me very happy. 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:50.820 Just installed it, instantly installed OBS. 00:19:50.820 --> 00:19:54.620 I had to restart my roadcaster, but then it worked immediately. 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, 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:03.340 so I'm gonna get Teams installed here because I need to do a work call. 00:20:03.340 --> 00:20:08.100 Well, the Teams call went fine, sort of. The Teams is still a very annoying experience 00:20:08.100 --> 00:20:12.180 on Linux regardless of what Linux flavor you go with. 00:20:12.180 --> 00:20:17.900 There's no official app. I was using the Teams for Linux open source community thing. 00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:22.660 It's like fine. There's some cludginess here and there. 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 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:30.340 is to just run it through the browser entirely, which I really don't prefer, 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. 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. 00:20:39.740 --> 00:20:44.140 No, not quite, but at least they're doing it. 00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:47.900 Not like Microsoft supporting it, so I appreciate the effort. 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:52.300 Another thing that I'd say is that gaming has been perfectly fine so far. 00:20:52.300 --> 00:20:56.780 I'd say this fire is working, is working no problem. 00:20:56.780 --> 00:21:02.740 Gaming so far, going okay. No major hiccups with anything as of right now, 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. 00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:12.380 Alt-Tab allows me to switch to things, 00:21:12.380 --> 00:21:15.660 but my mouse is not there. Like I'm hearing like, 00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:19.460 gree, gree, gree, gree, gree, like in my ears. This is so awesome. 00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:23.220 I managed to play a game for 20 seconds. I must just be cursed. 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. 00:21:27.580 --> 00:21:31.020 I'm gonna try to end the process, Half-Life 2, I think. 00:21:31.020 --> 00:21:34.260 Is this, hello? Delet? Is that not gonna work? 00:21:34.260 --> 00:21:35.460 It's not gonna do anything? 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. 00:21:41.380 --> 00:21:44.940 I don't understand why trying to do the most 00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:48.160 basicest of things, launch a Valve game 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:51.780 on a fresh install, manages to be like this. 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 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. 00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:02.740 Okay, the last thing now, I think, I'm just gonna game. 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. 00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:13.460 So, yikes. I won't blame any Bazite or Linux for it not working. 00:22:13.460 --> 00:22:16.620 Judging by how long it's taking, that's not a good sign. 00:22:16.620 --> 00:22:20.100 Ah, a month without PUBG. Ah. 00:22:20.100 --> 00:22:23.220 Okay, well, let's launch Bellatro. Hey, there we go. 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 00:22:26.980 --> 00:22:30.500 what the heck was going on there. Off to a great start. 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:35.220 All right, I'm just playing single player now. Let's see how this goes. 00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:37.420 All right, this is how far I made it last time. 00:22:42.460 --> 00:22:46.340 Try running it in Vulcan. Unfortunately, there's no in-game setting for it, 00:22:46.340 --> 00:22:48.300 but apparently this will do the trick. 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:54.860 And there it is, that was the fix. Not complicated, but definitely frustrating 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 00:23:00.260 --> 00:23:04.540 when you try to play the game. And there's also apparently been an issue since 00:23:04.540 --> 00:23:08.900 at least July of last year. To be clear, none of this is meant to discount 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:13.700 the experiences that other people have. It's just to also acknowledge that not everybody has 00:23:13.700 --> 00:23:17.220 such a seamless experience. With Left 4 Dead solved, our next challenge 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, 00:23:21.020 --> 00:23:25.220 so I am finding so much weird stuff, dude. 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:28.460 It like turned into two black Windows that then turned into this. 00:23:28.460 --> 00:23:32.460 Oh, whoa, check this out. Why am I cursed like this? 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 00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:40.220 at the left and top for some reason. 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:43.900 Is the mouse supposed to do anything? It's supposed to do something. 00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:47.900 Hold on, here's an idea. Okay, so look up, we can rebind that. 00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:48.940 Let's go left click. 00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:55.180 Okay, hey, controller works. I guess I'm gaming on a controller, boys. 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? 00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:05.060 Oh, speaking of files, I should try to mount my network share. 00:24:05.060 --> 00:24:10.140 So network, shared folders, SMB. Oh, dude, is it gonna find it for me? 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:15.820 Whoa, it found it for me. Hell yeah, ad, can I pin them to the side? 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. 00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:23.820 And these are SMB set as default app. 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. 00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:35.460 I have my audio working, I have a game running, 00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:40.100 I have my SMB share mounted. The most painful roadblock was by far 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 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 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, 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, 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. 00:25:05.260 --> 00:25:08.300 I needed to make sure that secure boot was on first 00:25:08.300 --> 00:25:11.700 and now that it was on when I installed it, it was pretty painless. 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. 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 00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:26.340 if there's a software or a game that requires secure boot. 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:30.180 I wonder if Linus is gonna have as smooth of a time 00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:33.260 or if his is gonna be a little bit worse. 00:25:33.260 --> 00:25:36.540 Well, this is remarkable. I'm up to three steam Windows now. 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 00:25:41.060 --> 00:25:45.940 Helldivers mission with no further complications. So while I wouldn't call today a success, 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, 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. 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, 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 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:07.100 that were much better. For instance, setting up PopOS 00:26:07.100 --> 00:26:10.820 involved none of my data being given away. And maybe more importantly, 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 00:26:15.620 --> 00:26:20.820 working, no going to the manufacturer's website, downloading drivers, none of that nonsense. 00:26:20.820 --> 00:26:24.700 The convenience of the Cosmic Store and it being something I might actually wanna use 00:26:24.700 --> 00:26:28.420 unlike the Windows Store, pretty nice. And so far, I've gotta give it credit 00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:32.900 for being pretty darn intuitive other than maybe the pressing the power button 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 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 00:26:43.860 --> 00:26:47.500 and excited to hear about our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.660 why not check out the first episode of the last Linux challenge. 00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:55.220 Some stuff is kind of the same in that I seem to be cursed, 00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:58.700 but other stuff is different. I did get Papa West installed this time. 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 00:27:04.620 --> 00:27:07.700 about what's going on right now though. Ha ha ha ha. 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? 00:27:14.140 --> 00:27:17.900 Penini. The Honkers Railway? 00:27:17.900 --> 00:27:19.500 Oh, it's that Tonkai Star Rail.