1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:06,319 Co-pilot, you need to opt out. Windows 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,319 update. You will own nothing and be happy. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:17,359 Oh, thank goodness. It was just a dream. For a second there, I thought Windows 4 00:00:14,559 --> 00:00:20,800 really was getting worse. It wasn't a dream. I'm 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,880 >> sorry. I was just scared for my privacy. I didn't want to sleep in my own bed 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:27,359 anymore. >> What are you doing here? I heard that 7 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:34,160 Lionus was going to save us. >> Linux. Elijah, not Lionus. 8 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:38,559 He does have a valid concern though with Microsoft adding more and more bloat 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:43,440 that negatively impacts the user experience and user privacy on Windows. 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,600 More people than ever are asking themselves, "What can I do?" Well, 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,280 there's those Windows debloating scripts, but uh those aren't quite the 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:57,120 silver bullet that they're made out to be. And there is Mac, but that's not a 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,760 great solution for gamers. That is where Linux comes in. As the rest of the world 14 00:00:59,199 --> 00:01:06,720 inifies, thanks to the incredible open- source community and corporate sponsors 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:12,720 like Valve, Linux just keeps getting better. And I think it's high time that 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:15,119 I try once again to make the switch. And 17 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,439 he's joining me. Hey, ELIJAH, WAKE UP. LET'S GO. 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:22,080 >> WHAT? BUT TONS of games I play don't work on Linux. >> Sure, but there's thousands of titles 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,200 that do work. And besides, it's only a month. That is unless you discover that 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:32,400 you love it so much you don't even want to play Fortnite anymore. Maybe the only 21 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:35,439 '9s you'll want to crank are these 90° 22 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,759 segways to our sponsor, Meter. They 23 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:42,320 build enterprise levels from the ground up and design and manufacture their own 24 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:46,640 hardware to boot. If you're looking for a reliable, scalable networking across a 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,479 multi-sight enterprise environment, Meter might be a great fit for you. 26 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:53,759 Click our link in the video description to learn more today. 27 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:07,680 The first and possibly biggest hurdle when it comes to embracing that 28 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:12,560 open-source life is the overwhelming number of options. Now, for some folks, 29 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:17,520 the idea of having so many choices, each catering to a specific user or use case, 30 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:22,959 is amazing, and it is, especially if you love to tinker. But for everyone else, 31 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:27,760 choice paralysis is a real thing. And with literally dozens of viable options 32 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,680 for Linux distros, not to mention the social pressure that comes from picking 33 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:37,599 the wrong one, it can be a major turnoff. Last time we did this over 4 34 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:41,840 years ago, I called out how terrible these listical sites are, and so did 35 00:02:40,239 --> 00:02:46,879 many others in the Linux community. >> And right out of the gate, 36 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,280 >> these are just terrible, terrible options. I don't expect much from this 37 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:54,480 article. >> Let's have a look and see if they've improved. Oh, XDA's article was from 38 00:02:52,959 --> 00:02:58,640 less than a month ago, though. And of course, the very first one is one I 39 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:04,800 haven't even heard of. No, Linux built on Fedora, quality of life tweaks, 40 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:12,000 controller support out of the box, Pop OS, Fedora's on here, Open Zusa, 41 00:03:08,959 --> 00:03:15,120 Tumbleweed, Catchy OS, this I've heard 42 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,280 of, Endeavor OS, Ubuntu. Good lord, 43 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:22,239 you've hardly narrowed it down, bud. Fedora KDE, straight up, that's it. No 44 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:26,400 pros and cons of anything else. Just go for it. Unless you're going handheld, 45 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:30,159 then Bazite. I'd really like a DRO I can use across all my devices, though. So, 46 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,920 that's AMD, NVIDIA, handheld, and desktop. We'll see if that happens. Pop 47 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:37,599 OS is the easiest. There's shockingly little overlap on these. I'm on my 48 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:41,920 fourth article now, and three of the six options are ones that I haven't seen 49 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:47,200 yet. Hollow ISO, Garuda Linux, and Mangaro. Of course, googling the answer 50 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:51,760 is basically boomer behavior. Now, if I wanted to do my thing and I want to 51 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:56,720 roleplay as a typical techin interested gamer who's looking to make the switch, 52 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:01,200 I got to fire up chat GPT and see what open AI has to say on the subject. 53 00:03:59,519 --> 00:04:05,040 >> Giving it an essay there. >> Well, I'm giving it as much information 54 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:09,200 as I feel it needs to give me a good recommendation. I like I want to make 55 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:13,519 the switch to Linux. I have a variety of PCs, each with different needs, and 56 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:20,880 ideally I could find a DRO that works for all of them. Recommendation number 57 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:22,960 one, Pop OS, Buntu LTS with game mode. 58 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:26,960 Maybe not the greatest recommendation if it doesn't know what hardware I'm using. 59 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:31,520 Right. Right there. Cons. You have to manually install drivers sometimes. 60 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:37,199 Menaro comes up again. Fedora starts giving me a whole like how-to for some 61 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,520 of the systems. Tips for smooth multi-achine use. Use a single desktop 62 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:47,600 environment and the same one across different machines. Bottom line. Pop OS. 63 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:51,440 H. I don't know if I'm sure about that. Kind of got burned by them last time. My 64 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:55,120 approach was to go to Reddit and I wanted to find someone that fit a 65 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:59,120 similar profile as me. And I just basically searched for what got the most 66 00:04:56,639 --> 00:05:02,880 upd. But when I narrowed it down to gaming dros, there was really only a 67 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:08,320 handful that were commonly recommended to me these days. Mangaro, Chimera OS, 68 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:12,880 Cashio OS, Bazite, and Pop exclamation mark OS. If your preferred flavor wasn't 69 00:05:11,039 --> 00:05:16,320 on that list, I promise it doesn't mean that it's bad. It just means that I 70 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:21,520 didn't come across many recommendations for it. So, let's talk about the pros 71 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:26,160 and the cons of those five. Camar OS is cool, but seems to prioritize being more 72 00:05:23,919 --> 00:05:30,720 of a console-like experience, which is not really what I'm going for. And the 73 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:34,479 same goes for Steam OS. I mean, it's still the one that I think is most 74 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:38,080 likely to usher in the year of the Linux desktop, and Valve has promised to 75 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:42,479 continue chipping away at the desktop experience, but it's still very much big 76 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:46,400 picture first. Not to mention that the limited hardware support is going to be 77 00:05:43,919 --> 00:05:51,120 a challenge for oh, I don't know, 90% of desktop users, including my downstairs 78 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:56,560 PC, which I'm also migrating this time to ensure that my immersion is complete. 79 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,680 for Mangaro and Casios, both based on Arch, by the way. Mangaro has been 80 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:03,440 around for several years at this point, meaning there's tons of documentation 81 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,960 online or other independent YouTubers have made videos and guides. It would 82 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,120 make hopefully getting things working nice and easy. Cashios is relatively 83 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:14,720 new, but because it's new, it kind of has the same thing. Tons of people are 84 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,000 covering it and making guides online about using it. Both of those could be a 85 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,759 bonus for helping me get through this month. Like I mentioned before, Pop OS 86 00:06:19,919 --> 00:06:26,639 screwed me over pretty good last time. Though, from my understanding, that was 87 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:30,560 an insane bug that was present for less than 24 hours, and I just happened to 88 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:35,039 run up against. In general, it's known to provide a very friendly experience 89 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:39,280 for new users, and it uses Ubuntu as a base, which can make it a little easier 90 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:44,560 to find guides and other resources. Last but not least, there's Basite, which is 91 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:48,479 explicitly gaming first and has gained serious momentum over its short 92 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:52,720 three-year history thanks to the bakedin support for HDR and variable refresh 93 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,880 rate, easy integration with non- Steam launchers, and emulationfriendly 94 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:01,039 features. It's based on Fedora, which doesn't quite have the same normie 95 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:05,759 install base as Ubuntu, but it is still a major distro, meaning hopefully it 96 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:10,160 shouldn't be too hard to find support. Again, on the subject of support, 97 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:13,280 there's no real reason that Elijah and I would have to figure any of this out on 98 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:17,360 our own. We could easily use our industry contacts to get help with 99 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:22,000 everything from choosing a DRO to even getting a bug fix implemented in real 100 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:25,280 time. But to me, that kind of ruins the spirit of the challenge. I mean, it's 101 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:30,560 not like the average person would be able to contact Linux Torvt for help 102 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:35,360 recompiling the kernel, you know? With all of that in mind, I'm going with 103 00:07:32,639 --> 00:07:39,360 Basite, specifically the KDE desktop environment. One, it's the cool new kit 104 00:07:37,599 --> 00:07:44,160 on the block. Two, Basite's documentation seemed slightly easier to 105 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:48,000 parse through, which for me is a huge W. And three, while it might be a little 106 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,680 bit more limiting than Cache OS, which several people warned me about, those 107 00:07:49,599 --> 00:07:55,039 same people did tell me that it was a little bit easier for a first- timer. I 108 00:07:53,680 --> 00:08:00,560 think I'm going to take that trade-off. Now, some of you may remember from my AMD upgrade 2 years ago, I actually 109 00:07:58,479 --> 00:08:05,520 installed Pop OS at the end. Uh, spoiler alert, I haven't been using it. I had an 110 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:09,039 issue with my Go XLR, and I spent way too long trying to figure it out that I 111 00:08:07,039 --> 00:08:12,879 ended up defaulting back to Windows 11. It's also worth mentioning that I'm only 112 00:08:11,039 --> 00:08:16,639 going to be swapping over my gaming PC to Linux, not my streaming PC. I can't 113 00:08:15,039 --> 00:08:21,440 afford to have any issues with that. And right now, it just works. And besides, 114 00:08:19,039 --> 00:08:25,919 all I hit is go live anyways. But who knows, if this goes well, maybe I'll be 115 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:30,240 considering swapping that one over. I, on the other hand, will be converting 116 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:35,120 all of my PCs, which means that I need something that's compatible with both 117 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:38,240 GeForce and Radeon GPUs. I will be 118 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,919 converting all of my PCs to Yeah, that's 119 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:45,040 where the script ends. I have to actually decide now. I'm going with Pop 120 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:49,279 OS. Just because it blew up on me once doesn't mean it'll blow up on me again. 121 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:52,560 I'm going to follow ChatGpt's recommendation here. I'm going to start 122 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,279 with one machine, get everything going the way that I want it, and then 123 00:08:53,760 --> 00:09:00,399 assuming that that goes well, I'm going to stick with Pop OS. Okay, so who 124 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:04,880 nailed this? Chat GPC got the way I was already leaning. Pop OS was the first 125 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:14,279 recommendation from Intererver, whatever this is. NVIDIA drivers handled cleanly. 126 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:14,279 Okay, Pop OS, drive me, daddy. 127 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:22,240 >> What? You guys started without me. Uh, my side of this challenge probably won't 128 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:27,200 be quite as bad as Linus' since I've been using Arch on my laptop for a while 129 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:30,800 now, by the way, and I've gotten pretty comfortable with it. That being said, my 130 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:35,440 use case on my laptop is is fairly limited. So, this is an expansion 131 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:39,279 forward. I'm in and I'm going with Cashy OS. The whole reason why I've been 132 00:09:36,959 --> 00:09:44,399 running Arch on my laptop was to try to demystify and and defang the the scary 133 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:47,279 experience of Linux for some people cuz I wanted to show like look I'm going to 134 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:52,399 put very little effort into this to be completely honest and I expect it's mostly going to go okay but the reason 135 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:58,000 for that was because my experience was limited mostly to a browser. So I kind 136 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:59,600 of want to continue the Arch experiments 137 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,600 but in a way that the community is mostly flagging right now as better for 138 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:07,279 gaming which is going the cashy direction. I still love Linux Mint. 139 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:11,600 Still use it in a couple spots here or there just because I find it so like 140 00:10:09,839 --> 00:10:14,720 easy to get set up and going. And I know there was some comments under last 141 00:10:12,959 --> 00:10:19,200 challenge about my choice of Linux Mint and like, "Oh, it's not as updated as 142 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:21,839 other things or cuz the Linux community loves to just scream about stuff all the 143 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:26,640 time." I wouldn't dissuade you from choosing it. I'm just kind of doing a experiment thing with Arch and enjoying 144 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:30,480 it right now. So, I'm going to continue on to Cashachi OS and hopefully it goes 145 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:35,519 fine. It is 8:03 and I am just about to start 146 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:39,279 my basite installation. Here we go. Insert. Oh, wait. Crap. I got to put the 147 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,880 SSD in. But I got Hey, you guys like my new server rack? A, it's pretty cool. 148 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,920 And Lionus made fun of me saying I'd never see it again in the server rack 149 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:50,480 case. Now, some of you might actually ask why I'm ripping out both of my 150 00:10:48,079 --> 00:10:54,000 drives in my computer when Windows is probably only installed on one. Well, 151 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:58,399 one thing I won't miss about Windows is there's this really weird bug. Sometimes 152 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:02,079 when you rip out one drive after you've installed it with two in it, it will 153 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:06,560 show up in the boot option in the BIOS, but it will just fail to boot. I don't 154 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:10,160 know how that is still a bug on Windows 11, but hey, I won't have to deal with 155 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,279 that with Basite. Hopefully, >> I have Cachios on this flash drive ready 156 00:11:12,959 --> 00:11:20,959 to go. But I ran into a problem. My motherboard has an M.2 slot here, an M.2 157 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:24,800 slot here, here, and here. But I didn't build my system. I don't know where my 158 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:28,560 current drive is installed. It should be installed here, but it was built by 159 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:33,839 Linus' kid, so I have no idea. And my problem is that's my system. This is the 160 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:38,079 Bulbasaur PC, right? Getting to the M.2s behind this GPU is going to be insane. I 161 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:42,880 like doing that without completely destroying my computer is not really possible. So hopefully I can remove this 162 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:47,360 one little strip and there's no drive there and everything will be fine. But if there is a drive there, I'm screwed. 163 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:52,160 >> For no reason other than that I'm a sucker for punishment, I've decided to 164 00:11:48,959 --> 00:11:54,399 do my upgrade to Pop OS here at Whale 165 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:58,079 Land. I just got to unplug my boot drive. I treated myself to an Optane 166 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:03,360 drive a little while back. Now I just got to disable secure boot and then hopefully this is going to be completely 167 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:08,240 painless and I'll be gaming in like 15 minutes. 168 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:11,760 And we're off to a great start. Select your drive. Can't see it. Well, I put it 169 00:12:10,079 --> 00:12:14,880 in a known good slot. Turns out the drive is bad. Why are these challenges 170 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:19,920 always cursed? >> Downside of a multimonitor setup. This is my primary monitor. So, we're trying 171 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:25,040 to boot into the BIOS right now. So, we're going to go into Fedora. Verifying 172 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:29,440 shim sbate date failed. Something has gone seriously wrong. I've done nothing. 173 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:35,279 Okay, I think I saw something related to secure boot. It is enabled. I'm going to 174 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:37,360 try disabling it. This OS version 175 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:42,079 workstation. It's past its end of life date. What? I downloaded fresh from 176 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:46,079 Basite's website today. That's a scary warning. So, I did take 177 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:50,320 this drive from the office. I wonder if that's why it's showing up as LTT. Maybe 178 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,880 I did happen to grab a drive from work that had Fedora. I won't mark that 179 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:59,839 against Basite then. That was 100% on me. Okay, we're booting up again. Hey, 180 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:03,120 there we go. Okay, Basite. Yes, we want to go into live ISO just so I can do the 181 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:08,000 install. Hey, there you go. Little Basite logo. Oh, this monitor lit up. 182 00:13:05,839 --> 00:13:12,639 Hey, there we go. Welcome to the live ISO for Basite. How would you like to 183 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:17,440 install? Oh, yeah. So, the drive I did grab had Fedora on it. I wonder if this 184 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:21,600 was the drive I used in the Linux Torvt video. Erase data and install. I will 185 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:25,279 say I think the default background is really pretty. I might actually keep that. Kind of matches the keyboard 186 00:13:24,079 --> 00:13:32,079 colors. You know, while I'm waiting for an install, I might as well do a merch plug. ltstore.com. Oh god, I punched my 187 00:13:29,519 --> 00:13:38,240 other camera. ltstore.com. All right. No drive under there. You can see an empty 188 00:13:34,399 --> 00:13:41,120 slot. They didn't decorate over the 189 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:48,399 screws. Was Kids >> Gamer time. Welcome to Cashios. 190 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,720 I used Roffus to uh flash my drive. I 191 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:54,320 got the M.2 installed and now we're here. So far, the hardest part was 192 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:59,040 getting it to boot to the flash drive. I've been super interested in trying 193 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:04,560 Hyperland, but I think I'm going to keep that for maybe something on my laptop or 194 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:07,440 something that I'm I'm I'm more happy to just play with. I'm going try to keep 195 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,600 pretty much everything the same as what I'm used to except for Cashios and just 196 00:14:09,839 --> 00:14:17,600 see how it goes. You know what? Calling an Audible. Let's give it a shot. 197 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:20,240 Lemonade or how I first read it with my 198 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:24,800 broken brain is lime line. Sounds cool. Looks cool. Going to go with Grub. I'm 199 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:29,440 just used to it. Right, we're in. Everything seems okay so far. Uh, I 200 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:34,320 wonder how many times Lionus has bricked his install. >> All right, now that I have a working 201 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:39,199 drive, this is great. Prompted to set up encryption right out of the gate. You 202 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:44,399 love to see it. Pretty painless setup so far. Don't need this. 203 00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:50,160 This looks fine. Oo, we're in. Now I got to play a game. 204 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:54,959 >> Oh, hey, there you go. Secure boot key added. Okay, well, let's do a reboot. I 205 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,399 assume I just leave it on Fedora. What the 206 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:03,279 frackle is this? Do I have to do the secure boot thing? Let's try this again. 207 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:07,120 Error. You need to load the kernel first. Okay, maybe I should read the 208 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:10,480 documentation. That's the error I was getting. So, we're going to use method 209 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:14,560 B. Disable secure boot in the BIOS before proceeding and then reenable it 210 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:18,320 after enrolling the key. I have to enter a command in the host terminal. Did I 211 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:23,680 mess this up? You know what? I'm gonna try reinstalling it with secure boot 212 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,920 enabled this time. And oh maybe I don't 213 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:30,800 I don't want to do that. That takes so long. Okay. Well, let's let's try 214 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,639 reinstalling Bazite from the beginning with secure boot on this time and we'll 215 00:15:32,959 --> 00:15:40,399 see if something's different. All right. I've reinstalled it. Documentation says 216 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:43,199 to reboot, enroll the keys. Yes, it's 217 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:47,360 just universal blue. I think I enabled it. Hey, there you go. I feel like I 218 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:52,560 just went in a circle, but we'll let it cook. Hey, we're in. Okay, it did detect 219 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:57,519 all three. I kind of have a weird one that's off to the side here, so I can 220 00:15:54,399 --> 00:16:00,320 like monitor chat when I do other stuff. 221 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:02,959 Oh, okay. Not right now, Steam. That's kind of cool. I got Steam pre-installed. 222 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:08,399 That'll be nice. Maybe I'll get a game up and running like real quick. All right, here comes the point where we 223 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:12,959 tripped up last time. Well, that was painless. I'm almost there, but before I 224 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:17,519 can game with this man, I'm going to need voice chat. So, we're getting 225 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:22,079 Discord going. I already got Left 4 Dead 2 installed already. There's some 226 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:26,560 slightly icky things. I have Discord working, which is super cool. What? 227 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:32,320 Really? All right, I'm ready to launch the game. 228 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:35,680 What is this? What is this? The Linux curse might be coming for me. Wait, it 229 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:40,240 magically healed itself. Magically healed itself. Well, this is messed up. 230 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:45,519 I've got my Discord volume at 200%. I've got Luke's individual user volume at 231 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:51,199 170%. And I've got my system volume at 150%. And I can barely hear anybody. No, 232 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:55,680 it's not you guys. It's me. I'm just experiencing Linux things. But hey, it 233 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:59,199 could be worse. I could be that guy at Alan who's not running his game in full 234 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:05,520 screen. Sup, Rob. All right, just rebooted and no game volume whatsoever. 235 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:09,280 What about like a YouTube video? Okay. Okay, that's loud. That's loud. That's a 236 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,160 good sign. That is so bizarre. Okay, let's see if Discord is solved. If 237 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,760 Discord solved, we're good. And then Discord maybe just magically healed 238 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:18,160 itself. What's up, gamers? Oh, we're good. >> So, did your audio just require a 239 00:17:17,679 --> 00:17:23,600 restart? >> It's complicated. My system was set to like spitif out. So, obviously that was 240 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:26,720 why I was getting no audio in game, but that doesn't explain why I was getting 241 00:17:24,959 --> 00:17:30,640 extremely low audio in Discord. >> Yeah, that's strange. It's It's that 242 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:34,559 problem of like why isn't this working and then why is this working? It's like 243 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:38,400 >> Yeah. I'd rather have why isn't it working than why is it working? 244 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,840 >> Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why did that change it? Do you Whoa. Do you see that? 245 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,679 Since I have a dual PC setup in my server rack, this is my streaming PC 246 00:17:43,919 --> 00:17:51,200 that records. I was actually getting ready to record and it's not quite 247 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:55,280 scaled correct. Like you can see I'm missing like half my taskbar. That was 248 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:59,360 not a scaling thing. This monitor is not 4K. So, I'm a little confused on why 249 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:03,200 it's showing 4K as an option. I do normally set to 120 Hz, though. Oh, it 250 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,880 made everything Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why did that change it? Do you Whoa. Do 251 00:18:04,799 --> 00:18:12,080 you see that? It's scaled properly, but you know what scaled it properly is 252 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:14,640 adjusting the frame rate. If I go to 140 253 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:21,760 on my OBS capture, it's not scaled right. But if I change it to 120 and 254 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:23,280 apply it, now it's scaled appropriately. 255 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:26,720 Like my scaling is the same. My resolution's the same. Now that I got 256 00:18:24,799 --> 00:18:30,160 these displays configured, Steam looked like it was already installing. So, 257 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:35,520 let's double check that. Dude, are we going to get a game going like that? I 258 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:40,480 know it's not compatible. I'm still going to download it because I want to 259 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:44,240 try it. I won't blame any Bite or Linux for it not working, but it's one of my 260 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:48,799 go-to games right now. I need to test if PUBG is going to work. Do I need to 261 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:52,080 enable the Proton compatibility later? Hey, it's enabled right away. Oh, yeah. 262 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,280 Look, it like installed it right here. I guess while that's installing, maybe I 263 00:18:53,600 --> 00:19:00,240 can get some other apps going here. Discord. Hey, there it is. Oh, Discord 264 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:04,640 is high risk. This app uses legacy X11 windowing system, which allows it to 265 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:08,960 record all keystrokes captures. It also has access to the internet, meaning it 266 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:13,200 could send your data to outside parties. Ooh, this is very timely. Well, I need 267 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:17,280 Discord, so I'm installing it. that warning. As scary as it probably seems 268 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:21,840 to a lot of people, I think it is kind of a cool thing that they're letting you 269 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:25,760 know that it might be risky. So, if you're a non-experienced user going to 270 00:19:23,919 --> 00:19:29,520 download something, it could give you a heads up like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Just 271 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:33,280 so you're aware for Discord, we already know they're stealing all our data 272 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:38,960 anyways. I don't know. Wo, you can download Edge. Holy cow, you got to be a 273 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:40,080 psychopath. High risk. 274 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:46,640 Let's go through audio while everything's installing really quick. It's showing up is is huge. I hear the 275 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:50,960 mic is going directly to the Roadcaster and the Roadcaster should just pass out. 276 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:55,280 Hey, it's being detected. Wow, that was really fast. Really? I'm going to call 277 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:58,080 my wife really quick. Hello. Hello. >> Yes, I can hear you. 278 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,520 >> I didn't have to configure anything. That's a lot easier than I thought it 279 00:19:59,919 --> 00:20:05,280 was going to be. But hey, the fact that I didn't have to troubleshoot it makes 280 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:11,360 me very happy. >> Just installed it. Instantly installed 281 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:12,720 OBS. I had to restart my Roadcaster, but 282 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,320 then it worked immediately. We'll see if the audio is fine. Seems like the audio 283 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:20,400 was fine. Off to bigger and better things. So, I'm gonna uh get Teams 284 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:25,039 installed here because I need to do a work call. Well, the Teams call went 285 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:30,080 fine. Sort of. Teams is still a very annoying experience on Linux regardless 286 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:32,640 of what Linux flavor you go with. 287 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:38,799 There's no official app. Uh I was using the Teams for Linux open source 288 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:40,880 community thing. It's like fine. There's 289 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:44,000 some cludginess here and there. It seems like most of the community agrees that 290 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:49,760 the best way to do it these days is to just run it through the browser entirely, which I really don't prefer, 291 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:55,039 but I'm going to keep fighting with Teams for Linux and see if I can get it working in a state that I would like. I 292 00:20:53,280 --> 00:21:01,200 would say with the like install it real quick, sign in and it works perfectly. 293 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:05,360 No, not quite. But at least they're doing it. Not like Microsoft's 294 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:09,520 supporting it. So, I appreciate the effort. Another thing that I'd say is 295 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:16,000 that gaming has been perfectly fine so far. Ha. Say this wire is working is 296 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:21,600 working. No problem. Gaming so far going okay. No major hiccups with anything as 297 00:21:19,679 --> 00:21:26,480 of right now, but I'll let you know if things change. 298 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:32,799 >> Well, uh, control altdelete doesn't do anything. Alt tab allows me to switch to 299 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:36,400 things, but my mouse is not there. Like 300 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:38,240 I'm hearing like re like in my ears. 301 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:42,880 This is so awesome. I managed to play a game for 20 seconds. I must just be 302 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:46,400 cursed. Like I just I have to be cursed at this point. Okay, I managed to find 303 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:51,679 this. I'm going to try to end the process. Halflife 2, I think. Is this 304 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:57,120 Hello, Delette. Is that not going to work? That's not going to do anything. 305 00:21:55,360 --> 00:22:01,760 >> Yeah, I have seven people waiting for me because I'm a special Linux snowflake 306 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:08,080 right now. I I don't understand why trying to do the most basicst of things, 307 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:10,080 launch a Valve game on a fresh install 308 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:13,840 manages to be like this. I'm even on AMD, guys. I'm on AMD. I'm going back to 309 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:19,840 Windows for now because this is just it's not acceptable. I have to be able to play the game right now. Okay, the 310 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:24,880 last thing now. I think I'm just going to game. Ooh, it's got a borked rating. 311 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:30,159 As of 2 weeks ago, someone said it's borked. So, 312 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:32,080 yikes. I won't blame any Basite or Linux 313 00:22:30,159 --> 00:22:38,159 for it not working, judging by how long it's taking. That's not a good sign. Uh, 314 00:22:35,039 --> 00:22:41,039 a month without PUBG. Oh, okay. Well, 315 00:22:38,159 --> 00:22:44,159 let's launch Batro. Hey, there we go. >> All right, we finished the round. It's 316 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,120 the next day and I'm going to see if I can figure out what the heck was going 317 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:51,200 on there. >> Off to a great start. >> Closing the gap. 318 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,480 >> All right, I'm just playing single player now. Let's see how this goes. All 319 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:59,679 right, this is how far I made it last time. You good? 320 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,400 >> Now you are playing with power. 321 00:22:59,679 --> 00:23:05,120 >> I just got to >> try running it in Vulcan. >> Unfortunately, there's no in-game 322 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:10,799 setting for it, but apparently this will do the trick. >> Like you had to break through this wall. 323 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:14,080 >> And there it is. That was the fix. Not complicated, but definitely frustrating 324 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:18,559 when you consider that this is a first party Valve title and the buggginess is 325 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:23,200 so immediately apparent when you try to play the game. And has also apparently 326 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,240 been an issue since at least July of last year. 327 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,600 To be clear, none of this is meant to discount the experiences that other 328 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:34,159 people have. It's just to also acknowledge that not everybody has such 329 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,880 a seamless experience. With Left 4 Dead Solved, our next challenge is going to 330 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:40,799 be Hell Divers 2. We're going to be playing with the VIPs. I've never played 331 00:23:38,559 --> 00:23:44,640 before, so I'm finding so much weird stuff, dude. 332 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:49,760 It like turned into two black Windows that then turned into this. Oh, wo, 333 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:53,120 check this out. Why am I cursed like this? Opening cinematic played okay. 334 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:58,400 Okay. And this looks promising other than the weird white line that I have at 335 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:00,400 the left and top for some reason. Is the 336 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,840 mouse supposed to do anything. >> Supposed to do something. 337 00:24:01,679 --> 00:24:08,880 >> Hold on. Here's an idea. Okay. So, look up. We can rebind that. Let's go. Left 338 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:13,440 click. Okay. Hey, controller works. I guess I'm 339 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:17,760 gaming on a controller, boys. So, I'm going to install Dolphin. Oh, wait. 340 00:24:15,679 --> 00:24:22,559 Dolphin's the name of their like the file manager, right? Oh, speaking of 341 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:28,000 files, I should try to mount my network share. So, network shared folders. SMB. 342 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:34,080 Oh, dude. Is it going to find it for me? Woah, it found it for me. Hell yeah. 343 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:38,799 Add. Can I pin them to the side? Oh, I can. Oh, that's kind of nice. That was 344 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:44,200 really easy to mount my network share. And these are SMB. Set as default app. 345 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:52,080 Hey, there you go. Hey, I set VC as a default app. I'm feeling pretty decent 346 00:24:49,679 --> 00:24:57,520 right now. I have my audio working. I have a game running. I have my SMB share 347 00:24:54,559 --> 00:25:01,120 mounted. The most painful roadblock was by far like getting it to this point. A 348 00:24:59,919 --> 00:25:04,880 quick recap on what happened with the secure boot thing was I turned secure 349 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:09,039 boot off because I thought that's what it needed when the fedora drive that I 350 00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:13,440 accidentally grabbed from work was asking for it. Then when I installed 351 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:17,039 basite, it was, "Hey, turn secure boot on. I don't have it on. I have your 352 00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:21,600 key." But after I installed it, I think I might have gotten a little bit 353 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,600 confused or chose the wrong thing when 354 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:27,919 it asks me to enroll it. I needed to make sure that secure boot was on first. 355 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:31,840 And now that it was on when I installed it, it was pretty painless. I do think 356 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:37,279 it's a little weird that they still wanted me to type universal blue when I 357 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:41,520 was enabling the keys. I'm not really sure why. I do wonder how much it'll 358 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:46,000 help me in the future if there's a software or a game that requires secure 359 00:25:43,679 --> 00:25:51,039 boot. I I wonder if Lionus is going to have as smooth of a time or if his is 360 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:55,120 going to be a little bit worse. >> Well, this is remarkable. I'm up to 361 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:58,559 three steam Windows now. Nope. Can't type. After I figured out the control 362 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,840 issues, we did manage to get through the entire Hell Divers mission with no 363 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:06,240 further complications. So, while I wouldn't call today a success, it also 364 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:10,159 wasn't a complete failure. And I think I'm ready to do a little bit more 365 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:13,679 Googling, learn a bit more, figure out what the heck is going on with my Steam 366 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:17,279 interface here. Now, it is worth noting that while I am obviously showing a lot 367 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,480 of the problems I'm having today, I'm not trying to make Linux look bad or 368 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:25,919 anything, and there were aspects of the experience that were much better. For 369 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,760 instance, setting up Hop OS involved 370 00:26:25,919 --> 00:26:30,880 none of my data being given away. And maybe more importantly, if you don't 371 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:35,039 like futing about with things, is I had to do nothing to get all of my various 372 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:38,880 devices working. No going to the manufacturer's website, downloading 373 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:42,080 drivers, none of that nonsense. the convenience of the Cosmic Store and it 374 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:46,000 being something I might actually want to use, unlike the Windows Store. Pretty 375 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:50,320 nice. And so far, I've got to give it credit for being pretty darn intuitive, 376 00:26:47,679 --> 00:26:56,320 other than maybe the pressing the power button to reach my settings that has 377 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:58,240 like Windows 95 her you press start to 378 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,960 shut down kind of energy. With all that said, I'm excited about the next month 379 00:26:59,679 --> 00:27:06,960 and I hope you guys are excited to come along with us and excited to hear about our sponsor, 380 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:10,559 Meter. As your company grows and branches out around the world, you'll 381 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:15,520 need a network that can scale with your operations. Juggling different ISPs, 382 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:19,760 vendors, and all the necessary tools you need can be a massive time sync. 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I did get Pop OS installed 392 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,640 this time. >> Uh, how refraining is it? It looks 393 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:05,440 >> It doesn't look straight. I mean, there's That's probably the straightest 394 00:28:04,159 --> 00:28:09,360 thing about what's going on right now, though. 395 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:13,840 >> Are you going to eat in a box? What are you doing? Panini, 396 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:18,240 were you in the shot the whole time? Panini, 397 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:21,039 >> the Honkers Railway. Oh, it's that 398 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,039 Honkai star rail.