Co-pilot, you need to opt out. Windows
update. You will own nothing and be happy.
Oh, thank goodness. It was just a dream. For a second there, I thought Windows
really was getting worse. It wasn't a dream. I'm
>> sorry. I was just scared for my privacy. I didn't want to sleep in my own bed
anymore. >> What are you doing here? I heard that
Lionus was going to save us. >> Linux. Elijah, not Lionus.
He does have a valid concern though with Microsoft adding more and more bloat
that negatively impacts the user experience and user privacy on Windows.
More people than ever are asking themselves, "What can I do?" Well,
there's those Windows debloating scripts, but uh those aren't quite the
silver bullet that they're made out to be. And there is Mac, but that's not a
great solution for gamers. That is where Linux comes in. As the rest of the world
inifies, thanks to the incredible open- source community and corporate sponsors
like Valve, Linux just keeps getting better. And I think it's high time that
I try once again to make the switch. And
he's joining me. Hey, ELIJAH, WAKE UP. LET'S GO.
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The first and possibly biggest hurdle when it comes to embracing that
open-source life is the overwhelming number of options. Now, for some folks,
the idea of having so many choices, each catering to a specific user or use case,
is amazing, and it is, especially if you love to tinker. But for everyone else,
choice paralysis is a real thing. And with literally dozens of viable options
for Linux distros, not to mention the social pressure that comes from picking
the wrong one, it can be a major turnoff. Last time we did this over 4
years ago, I called out how terrible these listical sites are, and so did
many others in the Linux community. >> And right out of the gate,
>> these are just terrible, terrible options. I don't expect much from this
article. >> Let's have a look and see if they've improved. Oh, XDA's article was from
less than a month ago, though. And of course, the very first one is one I
haven't even heard of. No, Linux built on Fedora, quality of life tweaks,
controller support out of the box, Pop OS, Fedora's on here, Open Zusa,
Tumbleweed, Catchy OS, this I've heard
of, Endeavor OS, Ubuntu. Good lord,
you've hardly narrowed it down, bud. Fedora KDE, straight up, that's it. No
pros and cons of anything else. Just go for it. Unless you're going handheld,
then Bazite. I'd really like a DRO I can use across all my devices, though. So,
that's AMD, NVIDIA, handheld, and desktop. We'll see if that happens. Pop
OS is the easiest. There's shockingly little overlap on these. I'm on my
fourth article now, and three of the six options are ones that I haven't seen
yet. Hollow ISO, Garuda Linux, and Mangaro. Of course, googling the answer
is basically boomer behavior. Now, if I wanted to do my thing and I want to
roleplay as a typical techin interested gamer who's looking to make the switch,
I got to fire up chat GPT and see what open AI has to say on the subject.
>> Giving it an essay there. >> Well, I'm giving it as much information
as I feel it needs to give me a good recommendation. I like I want to make
the switch to Linux. I have a variety of PCs, each with different needs, and
ideally I could find a DRO that works for all of them. Recommendation number
one, Pop OS, Buntu LTS with game mode.
Maybe not the greatest recommendation if it doesn't know what hardware I'm using.
Right. Right there. Cons. You have to manually install drivers sometimes.
Menaro comes up again. Fedora starts giving me a whole like how-to for some
of the systems. Tips for smooth multi-achine use. Use a single desktop
environment and the same one across different machines. Bottom line. Pop OS.
H. I don't know if I'm sure about that. Kind of got burned by them last time. My
approach was to go to Reddit and I wanted to find someone that fit a
similar profile as me. And I just basically searched for what got the most
upd. But when I narrowed it down to gaming dros, there was really only a
handful that were commonly recommended to me these days. Mangaro, Chimera OS,
Cashio OS, Bazite, and Pop exclamation mark OS. If your preferred flavor wasn't
on that list, I promise it doesn't mean that it's bad. 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. Camar OS is cool, but seems to prioritize being more
of a console-like experience, which is not really what I'm going for. And the
same goes for Steam OS. I mean, it's still the one that I think is most
likely to usher in the year of the Linux desktop, and Valve has promised to
continue chipping away at the desktop experience, but it's still very much big
picture first. Not to mention that the limited hardware support is going to be
a challenge for oh, I don't know, 90% of desktop users, including my downstairs
PC, which I'm also migrating this time to ensure that my immersion is complete.
for Mangaro and Casios, both based on Arch, by the way. Mangaro has been
around for several years at this point, meaning there's tons of documentation
online or other independent YouTubers have made videos and guides. It would
make hopefully getting things working nice and easy. Cashios is relatively
new, but because it's new, it kind of has the same thing. Tons of people are
covering it and making guides online about using it. Both of those could be a
bonus for helping me get through this month. Like I mentioned before, Pop OS
screwed me over pretty good last time. Though, from my understanding, that was
an insane bug that was present for less than 24 hours, and I just happened to
run up against. In general, it's known to provide a very friendly experience
for new users, and it uses Ubuntu as a base, which can make it a little easier
to find guides and other resources. Last but not least, there's Basite, which is
explicitly gaming first and has gained serious momentum over its short
three-year history thanks to the bakedin support for HDR and variable refresh
rate, easy integration with non- Steam launchers, and emulationfriendly
features. It's based on Fedora, which doesn't quite have the same normie
install base as Ubuntu, but it is still a major distro, meaning hopefully it
shouldn't be too hard to find support. Again, on the subject of support,
there's no real reason that Elijah and I would have to figure any of this out on
our own. We could easily use our industry contacts to get help with
everything from choosing a DRO to even getting a bug fix implemented in real
time. But to me, that kind of ruins the spirit of the challenge. I mean, it's
not like the average person would be able to contact Linux Torvt for help
recompiling the kernel, you know? With all of that in mind, I'm going with
Basite, specifically the KDE desktop environment. One, it's the cool new kit
on the block. Two, Basite's documentation seemed slightly easier to
parse through, which for me is a huge W. And three, while it might be a little
bit more limiting than Cache OS, which several people warned me about, those
same people did tell me that it was a little bit easier for a first- timer. I
think I'm going to take that trade-off. Now, some of you may remember from my AMD upgrade 2 years ago, I actually
installed Pop OS at the end. Uh, spoiler alert, I haven't been using it. I had an
issue with my Go XLR, and I spent way too long trying to figure it out that I
ended up defaulting back to Windows 11. It's also worth mentioning that I'm only
going to be swapping over my gaming PC to Linux, not my streaming PC. I can't
afford to have any issues with that. And right now, it just works. And besides,
all I hit is go live anyways. But who knows, if this goes well, maybe I'll be
considering swapping that one over. I, on the other hand, will be converting
all of my PCs, which means that I need something that's compatible with both
GeForce and Radeon GPUs. I will be
converting all of my PCs to Yeah, that's
where the script ends. I have to actually decide now. I'm going with Pop
OS. Just because it blew up on me once doesn't mean it'll blow up on me again.
I'm going to follow ChatGpt's recommendation here. I'm going to start
with one machine, get everything going the way that I want it, and then
assuming that that goes well, I'm going to stick with Pop OS. Okay, so who
nailed this? Chat GPC got the way I was already leaning. Pop OS was the first
recommendation from Intererver, whatever this is. NVIDIA drivers handled cleanly.
Okay, Pop OS, drive me, daddy.
>> What? You guys started without me. Uh, my side of this challenge probably won't
be quite as bad as Linus' since I've been using Arch on my laptop for a while
now, by the way, and I've gotten pretty comfortable with it. That being said, my
use case on my laptop is is fairly limited. So, this is an expansion
forward. I'm in and I'm going with Cashy OS. The whole reason why I've been
running Arch on my laptop was to try to demystify and and defang the the scary
experience of Linux for some people cuz I wanted to show like look I'm going to
put very little effort into this to be completely honest and I expect it's mostly going to go okay but the reason
for that was because my experience was limited mostly to a browser. So I kind
of want to continue the Arch experiments
but in a way that the community is mostly flagging right now as better for
gaming which is going the cashy direction. I still love Linux Mint.
Still use it in a couple spots here or there just because I find it so like
easy to get set up and going. And I know there was some comments under last
challenge about my choice of Linux Mint and like, "Oh, it's not as updated as
other things or cuz the Linux community loves to just scream about stuff all the
time." I wouldn't dissuade you from choosing it. I'm just kind of doing a experiment thing with Arch and enjoying
it right now. So, I'm going to continue on to Cashachi OS and hopefully it goes
fine. It is 8:03 and I am just about to start
my basite installation. Here we go. Insert. Oh, wait. Crap. I got to put the
SSD in. But I got Hey, you guys like my new server rack? A, it's pretty cool.
And Lionus made fun of me saying I'd never see it again in the server rack
case. Now, some of you might actually ask why I'm ripping out both of my
drives in my computer when Windows is probably only installed on one. Well,
one thing I won't miss about Windows is there's this really weird bug. Sometimes
when you rip out one drive after you've installed it with two in it, it will
show up in the boot option in the BIOS, but it will just fail to boot. I don't
know how that is still a bug on Windows 11, but hey, I won't have to deal with
that with Basite. Hopefully, >> I have Cachios on this flash drive ready
to go. But I ran into a problem. My motherboard has an M.2 slot here, an M.2
slot here, here, and here. But I didn't build my system. I don't know where my
current drive is installed. It should be installed here, but it was built by
Linus' kid, so I have no idea. And my problem is that's my system. This is the
Bulbasaur PC, right? Getting to the M.2s behind this GPU is going to be insane. I
like doing that without completely destroying my computer is not really possible. So hopefully I can remove this
one little strip and there's no drive there and everything will be fine. But if there is a drive there, I'm screwed.
>> For no reason other than that I'm a sucker for punishment, I've decided to
do my upgrade to Pop OS here at Whale
Land. I just got to unplug my boot drive. I treated myself to an Optane
drive a little while back. Now I just got to disable secure boot and then hopefully this is going to be completely
painless and I'll be gaming in like 15 minutes.
And we're off to a great start. Select your drive. Can't see it. Well, I put it
in a known good slot. Turns out the drive is bad. Why are these challenges
always cursed? >> Downside of a multimonitor setup. This is my primary monitor. So, we're trying
to boot into the BIOS right now. So, we're going to go into Fedora. Verifying
shim sbate date failed. Something has gone seriously wrong. I've done nothing.
Okay, I think I saw something related to secure boot. It is enabled. I'm going to
try disabling it. This OS version
workstation. It's past its end of life date. What? I downloaded fresh from
Basite's website today. That's a scary warning. So, I did take
this drive from the office. I wonder if that's why it's showing up as LTT. Maybe
I did happen to grab a drive from work that had Fedora. I won't mark that
against Basite then. That was 100% on me. Okay, we're booting up again. Hey,
there we go. Okay, Basite. Yes, we want to go into live ISO just so I can do the
install. Hey, there you go. Little Basite logo. Oh, this monitor lit up.
Hey, there we go. Welcome to the live ISO for Basite. How would you like to
install? Oh, yeah. So, the drive I did grab had Fedora on it. I wonder if this
was the drive I used in the Linux Torvt video. Erase data and install. I will
say I think the default background is really pretty. I might actually keep that. Kind of matches the keyboard
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
other camera. ltstore.com. All right. No drive under there. You can see an empty
slot. They didn't decorate over the
screws. Was Kids >> Gamer time. Welcome to Cashios.
I used Roffus to uh flash my drive. I
got the M.2 installed and now we're here. So far, the hardest part was
getting it to boot to the flash drive. I've been super interested in trying
Hyperland, but I think I'm going to keep that for maybe something on my laptop or
something that I'm I'm I'm more happy to just play with. I'm going try to keep
pretty much everything the same as what I'm used to except for Cashios and just
see how it goes. You know what? Calling an Audible. Let's give it a shot.
Lemonade or how I first read it with my
broken brain is lime line. Sounds cool. Looks cool. Going to go with Grub. I'm
just used to it. Right, we're in. Everything seems okay so far. Uh, I
wonder how many times Lionus has bricked his install. >> All right, now that I have a working
drive, this is great. Prompted to set up encryption right out of the gate. You
love to see it. Pretty painless setup so far. Don't need this.
This looks fine. Oo, we're in. Now I got to play a game.
>> Oh, hey, there you go. Secure boot key added. Okay, well, let's do a reboot. I
assume I just leave it on Fedora. What the
frackle is this? Do I have to do the secure boot thing? Let's try this again.
Error. You need to load the kernel first. Okay, maybe I should read the
documentation. That's the error I was getting. So, we're going to use method
B. Disable secure boot in the BIOS before proceeding and then reenable it
after enrolling the key. I have to enter a command in the host terminal. Did I
mess this up? You know what? I'm gonna try reinstalling it with secure boot
enabled this time. And oh maybe I don't
I don't want to do that. That takes so long. Okay. Well, let's let's try
reinstalling Bazite from the beginning with secure boot on this time and we'll
see if something's different. All right. I've reinstalled it. Documentation says
to reboot, enroll the keys. Yes, it's
just universal blue. I think I enabled it. Hey, there you go. I feel like I
just went in a circle, but we'll let it cook. Hey, we're in. Okay, it did detect
all three. I kind of have a weird one that's off to the side here, so I can
like monitor chat when I do other stuff.
Oh, okay. Not right now, Steam. That's kind of cool. I got Steam pre-installed.
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. Well, that was painless. I'm almost there, but before I
can game with this man, I'm going to need voice chat. So, we're getting
Discord going. I already got Left 4 Dead 2 installed already. There's some
slightly icky things. I have Discord working, which is super cool. What?
Really? All right, I'm ready to launch the game.
What is this? What is this? The Linux curse might be coming for me. Wait, it
magically healed itself. Magically healed itself. Well, this is messed up.
I've got my Discord volume at 200%. I've got Luke's individual user volume at
170%. And I've got my system volume at 150%. And I can barely hear anybody. No,
it's not you guys. It's me. I'm just experiencing Linux things. But hey, it
could be worse. I could be that guy at Alan who's not running his game in full
screen. Sup, Rob. All right, just rebooted and no game volume whatsoever.
What about like a YouTube video? Okay. Okay, that's loud. That's loud. That's a
good sign. That is so bizarre. Okay, let's see if Discord is solved. If
Discord solved, we're good. And then Discord maybe just magically healed
itself. What's up, gamers? Oh, we're good. >> So, did your audio just require a
restart? >> It's complicated. My system was set to like spitif out. So, obviously that was
why I was getting no audio in game, but that doesn't explain why I was getting
extremely low audio in Discord. >> Yeah, that's strange. It's It's that
problem of like why isn't this working and then why is this working? It's like
>> Yeah. I'd rather have why isn't it working than why is it working?
>> Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why did that change it? Do you Whoa. Do you see that?
Since I have a dual PC setup in my server rack, this is my streaming PC
that records. I was actually getting ready to record and it's not quite
scaled correct. Like you can see I'm missing like half my taskbar. 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. I do normally set to 120 Hz, though. Oh, it
made everything Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why did that change it? Do you Whoa. Do
you see that? It's scaled properly, but you know what scaled it properly is
adjusting the frame rate. If I go to 140
on my OBS capture, it's not scaled right. But if I change it to 120 and
apply it, now it's scaled appropriately.
Like my scaling is the same. My resolution's the same. Now that I got
these displays configured, Steam looked like it was already installing. So,
let's double check that. Dude, are we going to get a game going like that? I
know it's not compatible. I'm still going to download it because I want to
try it. I won't blame any Bite or Linux for it not working, but it's one of my
go-to games right now. I need to test if PUBG is going to work. Do I need to
enable the Proton compatibility later? Hey, it's enabled right away. Oh, yeah.
Look, it like installed it right here. I guess while that's installing, maybe I
can get some other apps going here. Discord. Hey, there it is. Oh, Discord
is high risk. This app uses legacy X11 windowing system, which allows it to
record all keystrokes captures. It also has access to the internet, meaning it
could send your data to outside parties. Ooh, this is very timely. Well, I need
Discord, so I'm installing it. that warning. As scary as it probably seems
to a lot of people, I think it is kind of a cool thing that they're letting you
know that it might be risky. So, if you're a non-experienced user going to
download something, it could give you a heads up like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Just
so you're aware for Discord, we already know they're stealing all our data
anyways. I don't know. Wo, you can download Edge. Holy cow, you got to be a
psychopath. High risk.
Let's go through audio while everything's installing really quick. It's showing up is is huge. I hear the
mic is going directly to the Roadcaster and the Roadcaster should just pass out.
Hey, it's being detected. Wow, that was really fast. Really? I'm going to call
my wife really quick. Hello. Hello. >> 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. But hey, the fact that I didn't have to troubleshoot it makes
me very happy. >> Just installed it. Instantly installed
OBS. I had to restart my Roadcaster, but
then it worked immediately. We'll see if the audio is fine. Seems like the audio
was fine. Off to bigger and better things. So, I'm gonna uh get Teams
installed here because I need to do a work call. Well, the Teams call went
fine. Sort of. Teams is still a very annoying experience on Linux regardless
of what Linux flavor you go with.
There's no official app. Uh I was using the Teams for Linux open source
community thing. It's like fine. There's
some cludginess here and there. It seems like most of the community agrees that
the best way to do it these days is to just run it through the browser entirely, which I really don't prefer,
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
would say with the like install it real quick, sign in and it works perfectly.
No, not quite. But at least they're doing it. Not like Microsoft's
supporting it. So, I appreciate the effort. Another thing that I'd say is
that gaming has been perfectly fine so far. Ha. Say this wire is working is
working. No problem. Gaming so far going okay. No major hiccups with anything as
of right now, but I'll let you know if things change.
>> Well, uh, control altdelete doesn't do anything. Alt tab allows me to switch to
things, but my mouse is not there. Like
I'm hearing like re like in my ears.
This is so awesome. I managed to play a game for 20 seconds. I must just be
cursed. Like I just I have to be cursed at this point. Okay, I managed to find
this. I'm going to try to end the process. Halflife 2, I think. Is this
Hello, Delette. Is that not going to work? That's not going to do anything.
>> Yeah, I have seven people waiting for me because I'm a special Linux snowflake
right now. I I don't understand why trying to do the most basicst of things,
launch a Valve game on a fresh install
manages to be like this. I'm even on AMD, guys. I'm on AMD. I'm going back to
Windows for now because this is just it's not acceptable. I have to be able to play the game right now. Okay, the
last thing now. I think I'm just going to game. Ooh, it's got a borked rating.
As of 2 weeks ago, someone said it's borked. So,
yikes. I won't blame any Basite or Linux
for it not working, judging by how long it's taking. That's not a good sign. Uh,
a month without PUBG. Oh, okay. Well,
let's launch Batro. Hey, there we go. >> All right, we finished the round. It's
the next day and I'm going to see if I can figure out what the heck was going
on there. >> Off to a great start. >> Closing the gap.
>> All right, I'm just playing single player now. Let's see how this goes. All
right, this is how far I made it last time. You good?
>> Now you are playing with power.
>> I just got to >> try running it in Vulcan. >> Unfortunately, there's no in-game
setting for it, but apparently this will do the trick. >> Like you had to break through this wall.
>> And there it is. That was the fix. Not complicated, but definitely frustrating
when you consider that this is a first party Valve title and the buggginess is
so immediately apparent when you try to play the game. And has also apparently
been an issue since at least July of last year.
To be clear, none of this is meant to discount the experiences that other
people have. It's just to also acknowledge that not everybody has such
a seamless experience. With Left 4 Dead Solved, our next challenge is going to
be Hell Divers 2. We're going to be playing with the VIPs. I've never played
before, so I'm finding so much weird stuff, dude.
It like turned into two black Windows that then turned into this. Oh, wo,
check this out. Why am I cursed like this? Opening cinematic played okay.
Okay. And this looks promising other than the weird white line that I have at
the left and top for some reason. Is the
mouse supposed to do anything. >> Supposed to do something.
>> Hold on. Here's an idea. Okay. So, look up. We can rebind that. Let's go. Left
click. Okay. Hey, controller works. I guess I'm
gaming on a controller, boys. So, I'm going to install Dolphin. Oh, wait.
Dolphin's the name of their like the file manager, right? Oh, speaking of
files, I should try to mount my network share. So, network shared folders. SMB.
Oh, dude. Is it going to find it for me? Woah, it found it for me. Hell yeah.
Add. Can I pin them to the side? Oh, I can. Oh, that's kind of nice. That was
really easy to mount my network share. And these are SMB. Set as default app.
Hey, there you go. Hey, I set VC as a default app. I'm feeling pretty decent
right now. I have my audio working. I have a game running. I have my SMB share
mounted. The most painful roadblock was by far like getting it to this point. A
quick recap on what happened with the secure boot thing was I turned secure
boot off because I thought that's what it needed when the fedora drive that I
accidentally grabbed from work was asking for it. Then when I installed
basite, it was, "Hey, turn secure boot on. I don't have it on. I have your
key." But after I installed it, I think I might have gotten a little bit
confused or chose the wrong thing when
it asks me to enroll it. I needed to make sure that secure boot was on first.
And now that it was on when I installed it, it was pretty painless. I do think
it's a little weird that they still wanted me to type universal blue when I
was enabling the keys. I'm not really sure why. I do wonder how much it'll
help me in the future if there's a software or a game that requires secure
boot. I I wonder if Lionus is going to have as smooth of a time or if his is
going to be a little bit worse. >> Well, this is remarkable. I'm up to
three steam Windows now. Nope. Can't type. After I figured out the control
issues, we did manage to get through the entire Hell Divers mission with no
further complications. So, while I wouldn't call today a success, it also
wasn't a complete failure. And I think I'm ready to do a little bit more
Googling, learn a bit more, figure out what the heck is going on with my Steam
interface here. Now, it is worth noting that while I am obviously showing a lot
of the problems I'm having today, I'm not trying to make Linux look bad or
anything, and there were aspects of the experience that were much better. For
instance, setting up Hop OS involved
none of my data being given away. And maybe more importantly, if you don't
like futing about with things, is I had to do nothing to get all of my various
devices working. No going to the manufacturer's website, downloading
drivers, none of that nonsense. the convenience of the Cosmic Store and it
being something I might actually want to use, unlike the Windows Store. Pretty
nice. And so far, I've got to give it credit for being pretty darn intuitive,
other than maybe the pressing the power button to reach my settings that has
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this time. >> Uh, how refraining is it? It looks
>> It doesn't look straight. I mean, there's That's probably the straightest
thing about what's going on right now, though.
>> Are you going to eat in a box? What are you doing? Panini,
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