Same here. Arch, Radeon, over 800 titles on GOG, and no unplayable games. Some needed a little adjustments like proton versions, using the syswine instead or Glorious Eggroll's version. No problems with sound, resolution, controllers etc, everything just works. At this point, unless you're playing pvp, linux is fully functional.
Thanks to Steam and Proton, I use only Linux for gaming for last 9 years. The downside is that it re-ignited my gaming addiction that I thought was almost gone.
I’m running Fedora 41. I play Diablo 4, Galactic Civilization 3, Doom (2016), and Doom Eternal, all in Steam. All flawlessly. Honestly there is nothing I cannot do now, that I did in Windows. In my opinion, there is no longer a “have to” when it comes to Windows. It’s been a long time coming to get here, but I truly believe, what made this leap, was the development of Steam OS. My rig is a Lenovo Thinkstation P520, with a Xeon W-2145, 64GB Quad channel Ram, 1tb nvme drive, a 10tb drive for plex and additional storage, and now, an RX 7600XT, as I chose to move away from my RTX 3060.
I didn't play video games like more 20 years because I couldn't play video games and "geek" on the same OS. So I geek only on Linux without playing games. Since a few month, I discovered the compatibility layer, Proton and I was able to play smoothly. It gave me a second youth. Now, I can play and geek on Linux. I haven't boot on Windows 11 since about 4 months. So happy now !!!
These days I cannot imagine Not being on Linux. Been using Linux on my desktop and laptop for over two years now (on and off for 7 years though) and I very much enjoy it. Thanks to Valve, Gaben, Proton, Glorious Egg Roll, and Arch, I have very little gamine woes. I've thankfully moved on from Blizzard, Ubisoft, and EA. The games I play don't "require" anti-cheat and I'm quite happy with the progress. Linux is definitely Not perfect, however I cannot move back to Windows. You just can't pay me enough.
I dropped Windows almost two years ago. The only problems I have with games are running some of the modding tools or launchers, which can be awkward at best to get working on Linux. Anything more complicated than dragging and dropping files into the game directory is pretty iffy and requires more trial and error to get working, if it will work at all.
@ordinaryhuman5645 you won't believe it... Some time ago I managed to install mods for GTA 5 - on Linux - for my son. Also mods for Beam NG work as well. (But GTA 5 on Linux is PITA, you never know when it's going to break)
I installed Debian 12 a few weeks ago and found through Replay that Linux accounts for 5% of my total Steam playtime this year. In 2025 I'm aiming for roughly 100%.
I switched to Nobara, wasn't gonna wait until Windows 11 was forced, and yeah I've been loving it. The one experience that kind of blew me away was when I finally got a Freesync OLED monitor, something I was craving after being stuck on a TN 4K non-Freesync monitor, and I was prepared for all this troubleshooting, trying to turn on Freesync and who knows what wouldn't work.. Well I just turned it on on the screen itself, the rest sorted itself.. I couldn't believe it at first but I've run Freesync/G-sync tests, and yeah it just worked. But yeah I haven't wanted to switch back, Steam works so damn well, it is so rare I experience anything I can chug up to Proton. Right now I'm playing Cyberpunk2077(downloaded from GOG, playing using Proton via Steam), it runs and looks perfect, although those RT effects sure make my poor 6950 XT howl.
This is unrelated to the operating system, but TBH I can’t find a single reason to enable ray tracing in games in which it can be disabled as the framerate cost is insane while the visual benefit is barely noticeable in many cases. I play with 6800XT on a 4K OLED as well.
@@LinuxRenaissance There's some of the lighting that looks better, but it's so minor I tried turning it off here as I finished up Phantom Liberty, and yeah it still looks great, now with 100+ FPS.
Some of them are like you said. Some of them simply are not aware that almost every SP game works. Also Easy Anti-Cheat is not the problem. Both EAC and Battle-Eye are officially supported for Linux. The problem is game developers refusing to enable it on Linux. You can argue that this makes no difference for the gamer because if the game doesn’t work then it doesn’t work. But for me the reason why it doesn’t works matters for my opinion on that game developer.
My gaming Rig is fully on Linux. CachyOS. No issues with gaming. Currently playing Jedi Survivor. Smoth experience. Ryzen 7 3700x 64Gb DDR4 3600 RAM. Nvidia GTX 1070. Even my Stadia Controller works fully wireless with rumble support out of the box native in Linux. On All platforms not just Steam. 😊
@@LinuxRenaissance Till Ubuntu 24.10 Wayland used to be an issue for me. But 24.10 has been flawless. No complaints whatsoever. Though, if AMD's RDNA4 can match the 4080 in RT performance I'd switch to an all AMD build. The only possible concern is CUDA, which my research depends on 🤷🏾♂️.
@@fooboomoo it is the wrong question in this case: my screen is not an actual monitor but a tv. I use LG 42” OLED as my main “monitor” and it does not have a Display Port
I really want to give Cachy a try but I have a problem that I cannot set higher refresh rate than 60 hz on 4K, while having no issues with that on Windows. I have GTX 1070 connected to LG C4 TV via display port --> hdmi 2.1 adapter with HDMI 2.1 high speed cable. I would appreciate any advise to make it running.
Try connecting it directly via HDMI only and see if you can get 4K120 working without that adapter. Get back to me after that, preferably on my Matrix room if I miss your reply here.
Ever since I got an all AMD Lenovo Legion a couple years ago, I planned to use it as a means to test distros and plot my escape from Microsoft. On my Legion, I was constantly distro hoping around. My use case was simple: I needed it to connect to external displays and controllers easy without the OS getting in the way of itself. That laptop was used as a fighting game party box mostly. This year after the Recall and A.I integrations in 24H2, I finally had enough in Late Oct/ Early November. Flipped over to Arch full time and haven't looked back.
@@LinuxRenaissance I use a combination of Xbox and PS5 controllers in wired and wireless plus 3 wired arcade sticks Everything really works well on Arch.
What program do you use for virtual LAN games with frends on linux? I ave a problem to find VPN program compatible with both systems linxus and windows. I play on Ubuntu based distro and my friends are on windows, but I must run RADMIN for VLAN gaming with my friends and this works only on windows users only. Do you have any advice? pls?
Several years ago I was using Linux for playing World of Warcraft and it worked really well. Even got slightly higher frames per second than windows for some reason.
Right this has made me make the switch,, I have a few games that I play on my windows game machine%. I have an older machine that I am going to install windows on and see if I can get all my games on Linux if I can then that windows game machine will be Linux game machine. There is only one game mechwarrior online that is holding me back. If anyone has had luck on running it in Linux please share how.
Linux gaming becomes way complicated once you leave steam and if you want to use third party programs. Yeah, is possible, but a bit more hassle than windows. Most notably for me ATM, Veilguard. I'm comping shaders every other session for one reason or another. Proton update, recompile. Kernel update which causes a driver recompile, shader recompile. Driver update, you guessed it, shader recompile. And that's once I found the best wine/proton to even run a game
Yes, when Ubisoft does not care about you as a customer it becomes more complicated to play a game. Perhaps it could be useful if we could share our “best settings” for non Steam games as well on ProtonDB
should I use linux if I’m building a family computer? My dad and brother aren’t tech savvy so I’m concerned they may not be able to handle it. I’ve never used it myself so I apologize if I might sound silly
I would say no, unless you have the time & willing to invest time in learning Linux, as well teaching your family a different workflow on Linux depending on the software your family uses
Contrary to the other reply that you got I have installed Ubuntu for my mother and she did not even notice the change because she only uses the web browser, her bookmarks and files on desktop. My wife needed to use my computer a couple of days ago and she needed Anydesk and she went to Anydesk webpage to download it and then she got lost and called me on the phone so I told her to just get it from the Flathub Store and be done with it. I think if you are building a family computer it could work just fine if you will be there to support them with that change, meaning you are the one who needs to know how to use it in case they get stuck. I recommend trying Zorin Linux. That one is very stable and really easy to use.
@@LinuxRenaissance True. If all you need is a web browser or any program that is available on both Windows and Linux, then switching to Linux is still a breeze. But it gets problematic when you require certain programs that don't have a Linux version (especially if they don't run under Wine) or equivalent alternatives.
Star Wars Bounty Hunter has a Platinum ProtonDB rating, but just has a blank screen for me and others.. makes me pretty nervous when a Platinum game I picked pretty much at random didn't work on my test machine (Nvidia GeForce 1050). On a positive note, Monster Hunter Rise worked though (--dx11 was the launch option to stop glitching graphics).
With ProtonDB I always filter comments for Radeon only reviews as some games behave differently on Nvidia. So overal rating may be platinum but not quite platinum for one of the GPU’s.
I switched in September. I basically only play single player games so i don't really care about anti-cheat nonsense. I've even gotten some random fan games running in Bottles without too much fuss. It's so much better than my experiences with Wine 16 or 17 years ago.
Pop-os here. The anticheat is THE only problem. 144fps on lock.... Unless you let it sleep with the game running, it won't wake correctly. 1-15fps until you restart the game.
I love how far the Linux Desktop has come regarding gaming. But it is still not fully plug'n'play and a few games do not work at all, as far as I have heard. Plug'n'play is what I want for PC Gaming. Only Windows offers that. 2025 will show, if I remain dualing booting and switching to Win11 or if I go for a Linux only Setup. Basically Windows is just a game launcher plus DxO Photolab Launcher for me, used for nothing else, so I would love to ditch it, but those two things are just to important for me, so it is a hard choice.
In theory a person can be loyal to Microsoft but you can’t be loyal to Linux as nobody actually benefits financially from such loyalty. Not sure if that makes sense? So what I actually wanted to say: It’s okay to dual-boot :-)
I love linux it saves me hundreds of dollars on OS. Specifically i like pop os and i run off an external nvme drive so its like carrying a small stick i take my computer everywhere.
After more than a decade using Gentoo Linux, my steam report says I played 75% of the time on steam deck, 20% on Linux and less than 5% on Windows. I only use games when I want to play with the boys some game that refuses to launch. I think having a spare disk for emergency windows boot is a good idea for people that still need windows. Some other times.. like on Marvel Rivals works on Linux and refuses to launch on Windows. (I need to format windows without any reason)
Not that bad actually. AMD experience is better, but NVIDIA work well on x11 and just ok on wayland, so you diffidently can switch. My recommendation is linux mint cause it's install video drivers for you and it's easy for beginner, but NVIDIA works at almost every distro, so you can use whatever you want ^_^
I agree with what @basilyes said. I would say Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu, Pop_OS. All are okay with Nvidia out of the box, but perhaps Mint is the most appropriate. And if you can chose the type of the session on the login screen chose X11 with Nvidia, for now. There was one case I remember a year ago Starfield came out and it did not work at all on Nvidia, but it worked okay on AMD. That's the only concrete case I can remember from the top of my head that the game just outright did not work at all on Nvidia. My recommendation is to chose maybe one of your favorite games and play it on Linux to get yourself comfortable, as dual-booting is pretty easy. If you need help in stalling Linux dual-boot I made a special video for that sometime back in April. I think it's titled installing Ubuntu 24.04 or something like that. Instructions should be fairly applicable to Mint as well. Also, don't play games on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 24 does some things that are less than ideal.
I keep a windows partition for escape from tarkov and battlefield. Linux has been working mostly fine for cs2 and hearthstone which i play mostly right now.
How is Tarkov nowadays? I used to want to get into it, but in the meantime I kinda stopped doing PvP as I don't have much time for live gameplay anymore. What I mean is that I now mostly play games that have a pause button.
I stopped playing games on pc long time ago. Before i switched to Mac os. But i always loved PlayStation and that is where i game. I don't play games a lot these days. Now I'm 5 years on Linux. I was to play games on pc, it would ve on Linux for sure.
Thank you for the comment! 🙏 Gaming on a console is perfectly legitimate and easy. But for those who play games on PC exclusively I wanted to share some of my real world stats so they can see that I am not just empty words when I talk about gaming on Linux. It’s really good nowadays.
It is better in a way that it “just works”. With NVidia you have to deal with drivers and some games don’t work and Wayland (new way od showing a picture on your screen) support was spotty. Now Wayland support seems to be better, but overall Linux community tends to prefer Radeon because of its open source drivers that work without installing literally anything.
Tried Linux challenge for 1 month, but sadly switched back to windows after. Living in 3rd world country, me and my friends doesn't have much money to buy games, so we are using the jolly roger versions of them. And to play with my friends in those versions of the game on linux is very much hit or miss. While everyone were ready to play, I was spending hours trying to make them to work.
I’ve got onlinefix to work even though if was one game I’m sure they all work the same way. It was a while ago so I don’t remember how but it is definitely possible.
@@phantomx8131 tried bottles. It was hit or miss. Some games worked, others won't. If game needed epic games confirmation via browser, it wouldn't work for example.
I tried to move over to Linux but ended back on windows...standard gaming on Linux was fine - had a good experience, but Modded gaming on Linux was not nice and sent me back to Windows - I play Fallout 4 with Mod Packs/Collections and Wabbajack won't run under Linux period, Vortex is almost as bad - and no I'm not going to manually install 1000s of mods. Until recently Mod Organiser 2 also didn't work for Starfield, not sure if that's now changed with the latest release. I have loved my time on Linux...but I'm a gamer so for me Linux is not quite there yet - god its close...
Yeah I was going to say that manual mods install can work, but you are absolutely correct that we need a native organiser for that. Sadly we are not there just yet. On Starfield I did use one mod, though. Achievement enabler because I used a command for unlimited storage on me. I was too lazy to unload my stuff into the Starship all the time.
That depends on the game. Some games peform better on Linux, some perform worse. Most of my games perform very similar except Starfield - that one loses some serious frames on Linux.
@LinuxRenaissance haven't tried the ultra wide or VR stuff. Fishing is okay, just slow. One cool thing about fishing is that you can swim and find the same fish you would catch. Adds to the depth (haha) of the experience.
This is a revolution brah. We are going to take over brah. If you don't believe me you will see next brah. I will make sure everyone will use GNU/Linux brah. Much love and peace JackedLinuxUser
My year in Steam shows mostly Linux with some macOS and some Steam Deck... I've not used Windows personally for over two years now. Even the wife's gaming PC runs Linux Mint. Never going back.
I've been using Linux Mint for 6 months, games work most of the time but the biggest issue I have is managing game files it's so annoying to search the proton filepath
@@fooboomoo True, but games store config files in Windows document folder, also some games like Content Warning save videos to the dekstop so u have to dig trough that
@@LinuxRenaissance I already bought a new SSD for the sole purpose of installing Linux on, i don't think i will need Windows for anything but i will still have my old SSD if i do 🫠
gosh is this our true final form, will I grow a beard that gorgeus?😂 Been linux gaming on wayland for 2 years now since apex had support, dx12 games are still unstable for me, for now I have to put VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr;no_upload_hvv;force_host_cached as env var for my 5600xt. Other than that and apex dropped support, its been great. On kde wayland, theres hdr and vsync off too
Linux gaming is better than it's ever been, but I still had to walk away from Mint after 3 months because the experience is still a huge headache compared to Windows. Linux fans will screech about Nvidia all day, but the net result is still that Windows gaming is better no matter what company is responsible for the problems.
A bit problematic is the fact that Nvidia is the superior choice for gaming on Windows, while AMD is the superior choice for gaming on Linux. So, gamers who give Linux a try mostly own Nvidia (naturally) which does not give them the best experience that Linux offers. I have also had an RTX card when I started gaming more on Linux than on Windows and eventually I swapped it for a Radeon card for a better experience. It is what it is.
I installed Mint Cinnamon about 2 weeks ago and have issues trying to run Steam, it won't run without doing so through the terminal, and My pc often does a random restart when installing games, haven't really played anything yet, I have no clue what's up
Do you know where did you install Steam from? Did you download Steam installer from Valve website or something else? Also do you have Nvidia GPU or AMD? Random restart does not sound like something I heard of, unless it's a hardware malfunction, tbh. If you have enough willpower to get started with Linux and you need a bit of a push, join my Matrix room and I will try to give you a hand. Here on TH-cam comments it is very difficult to track who replied to me as I get a lot of replies and sometimes I miss some of them.
Id like to go to Linux but im worried about 1 game not working ATLAS pirate game from the devs of ark survival evolved second is modding Fallout 4 i love modding that game these 2 things is what's keeping me from going to Linux.
Unless linux just decides to break, Rn there is no controller support for stalker 2. Gpu control sucks. No AMD zero fan control. I could go on, it has a while still but has potential.
I think you are mistaken about controller topic or you failed to express your problem. I have never had a problem with my controller on Linux. Quite literally never.
@@necuz Unless they just patched it, before it was using an exclusive microsoft input and nothing wouls make it work under linux through steam. Its not xoneinput. pretty well known if you look into it. Other than that the other issues i listed are a lot more of a problem. I generally get better performance on windows. Some exceptions but only by a few fps. I completely de bloat and strip windows of telemetry and ai.
@@LinuxRenaissance Quick google search could colve your "never" lol Its a known issue unless it was just patched. Its aan exclusive microsoft input that doesnt fit with xoneinput devices.
@@LinuxRenaissance You wouldnt have as this is a new input released from Microsoft. Firsy thing i found when having issues was that and a lot of people in the same boat. I could make it work by making it recognize my controller as a keyboard but that functioned terribly. Any other Linux channels i mentioned to used m+k because of this issue. They also recognized it as a problem its not just me. I cannot achieve full power out of my 7900xt under linux as well. Undervolting doesnt work quite right. Used core ctrl and LACT. Its a linux bug still for rx7000 GPUs. I cant even pull 300w lol. Thats on a completely up to date distro with all the mesa updates and permissions.
In 2023 my Steam stats says 71% Windows and that’s because some games worked slightly better on there. So it’s not as you thought. I really did consciously remove Windows from all my computers last year. It is important to me that I verify on my own skin first, the things that I preach on this channel. It would be hypocritical from me if I said one thing and do another. Apologies for a bit of philosophy, but this topic is important to me. I have zero problem with people playing games on Windows. I just want to show the level of possibility of gaming on Linux so that people get this information. What they do with it I leave up to them.
Im started Gaming in Linuxmint just a year ago. I just bought Logitech G29 steering wheel and im worried that it has no software for linux. I just plug it but does not detected by steam, but it worked flawlessly in Forza horizon 5. Its good.
I don't have a wheel, but a quick internet search gave me this link. It says you need to switch it to PS3 mode. Maybe this link can help you: steamcommunity.com/app/310560/discussions/0/1776010325125699594/
Unfortunately that’s the state of competitive gaming nowadays. Perhaps you can play those games on a console, but if you prefer PC then dual-booting is an option. Albeit an annoying one.
@@LinuxRenaissance its not very great either. last week i run the dnf update (f40 to f41) and then i got a black screen many nvidia users get same result. its cool tho, since installing fedora again was so easy. thanks for listening, have a great xmas
After switching to Linux 6 months ago, I now only game on Linux. It's been practically flawless...
Thank you very much for the comment 🙏
A few glitches, but 90% of what I played works on Linux. I went full Linux Mint about 2 months back.
Same here.
Arch, Radeon, over 800 titles on GOG, and no unplayable games. Some needed a little adjustments like proton versions, using the syswine instead or Glorious Eggroll's version. No problems with sound, resolution, controllers etc, everything just works. At this point, unless you're playing pvp, linux is fully functional.
Yes sir. 🫡 That’s pretty much how I see it as well.
Thanks to Steam and Proton, I use only Linux for gaming for last 9 years. The downside is that it re-ignited my gaming addiction that I thought was almost gone.
I have had a similar scenario in my life. From my age of 20 to my age of 35 I believe I played zero video games 😆
Amen. Freedom tends to breathe life back into things.
I’m running Fedora 41. I play Diablo 4, Galactic Civilization 3, Doom (2016), and Doom Eternal, all in Steam. All flawlessly. Honestly there is nothing I cannot do now, that I did in Windows. In my opinion, there is no longer a “have to” when it comes to Windows. It’s been a long time coming to get here, but I truly believe, what made this leap, was the development of Steam OS.
My rig is a Lenovo Thinkstation P520, with a Xeon W-2145, 64GB Quad channel Ram, 1tb nvme drive, a 10tb drive for plex and additional storage, and now, an RX 7600XT, as I chose to move away from my RTX 3060.
I also moved away from my RTX card as Radeon experience is, overall, better on Linux. No regrets switching. Nice specs on your end!
@ thank you my friend. I also subbed. Great channel and content!
I didn't play video games like more 20 years because I couldn't play video games and "geek" on the same OS. So I geek only on Linux without playing games. Since a few month, I discovered the compatibility layer, Proton and I was able to play smoothly. It gave me a second youth. Now, I can play and geek on Linux. I haven't boot on Windows 11 since about 4 months. So happy now !!!
Congrats on your second youth! I understand this.
I recently started learning serbo-croatian and Im really happy abount finally finding a Croatian linux channel! Great video :]
Funny enough I recently started learning Polish and I will be looking for people to talk to in Polish. Your username suggests you might speak Polish?
@@LinuxRenaissance Yes I do speak Polish
These days I cannot imagine Not being on Linux. Been using Linux on my desktop and laptop for over two years now (on and off for 7 years though) and I very much enjoy it. Thanks to Valve, Gaben, Proton, Glorious Egg Roll, and Arch, I have very little gamine woes. I've thankfully moved on from Blizzard, Ubisoft, and EA. The games I play don't "require" anti-cheat and I'm quite happy with the progress.
Linux is definitely Not perfect, however I cannot move back to Windows. You just can't pay me enough.
I love this sentiment "you can't pay me enough" :D
id rather use Android hooked up to my 27" than ever using windows again so i get it lol
I dropped Windows almost two years ago.
The only problems I have with games are running some of the modding tools or launchers, which can be awkward at best to get working on Linux. Anything more complicated than dragging and dropping files into the game directory is pretty iffy and requires more trial and error to get working, if it will work at all.
Modding will become easier in the future, hopefully. I rarely mod my games but I do understand the pain.
@ordinaryhuman5645 you won't believe it... Some time ago I managed to install mods for GTA 5 - on Linux - for my son. Also mods for Beam NG work as well. (But GTA 5 on Linux is PITA, you never know when it's going to break)
I don't play games myself, but it's great to see that Linux has now become an equivalent gaming platform
Thank you for the comment! 🙏
Sometimes it's actually even better than windows.
I installed Debian 12 a few weeks ago and found through Replay that Linux accounts for 5% of my total Steam playtime this year.
In 2025 I'm aiming for roughly 100%.
Don’t push it. 90% in 2025 will make it easy 100% in 2026.
I use M.A.M.E to play the old arcade classics. The only bad thing is some roms break when M.A.M.E gets updated to a version not compatible with them.
Retro emulators are awesome ☺️
@@LinuxRenaissance Thanks 👍👍🙂
I switched to Nobara, wasn't gonna wait until Windows 11 was forced, and yeah I've been loving it. The one experience that kind of blew me away was when I finally got a Freesync OLED monitor, something I was craving after being stuck on a TN 4K non-Freesync monitor, and I was prepared for all this troubleshooting, trying to turn on Freesync and who knows what wouldn't work.. Well I just turned it on on the screen itself, the rest sorted itself.. I couldn't believe it at first but I've run Freesync/G-sync tests, and yeah it just worked.
But yeah I haven't wanted to switch back, Steam works so damn well, it is so rare I experience anything I can chug up to Proton. Right now I'm playing Cyberpunk2077(downloaded from GOG, playing using Proton via Steam), it runs and looks perfect, although those RT effects sure make my poor 6950 XT howl.
This is unrelated to the operating system, but TBH I can’t find a single reason to enable ray tracing in games in which it can be disabled as the framerate cost is insane while the visual benefit is barely noticeable in many cases. I play with 6800XT on a 4K OLED as well.
on cyberpunk raytracing actually really adds to the atmosphere it's very well done. i play on
@ I think I get 10 fps in that game with my gpu and rt enabled 🥲
@@LinuxRenaissance There's some of the lighting that looks better, but it's so minor I tried turning it off here as I finished up Phantom Liberty, and yeah it still looks great, now with 100+ FPS.
1:45 - The games people are talking about use Easy Anti-Cheat, like Apex Legends and the like, which requires Windows.
Some of them are like you said. Some of them simply are not aware that almost every SP game works.
Also Easy Anti-Cheat is not the problem. Both EAC and Battle-Eye are officially supported for Linux. The problem is game developers refusing to enable it on Linux.
You can argue that this makes no difference for the gamer because if the game doesn’t work then it doesn’t work. But for me the reason why it doesn’t works matters for my opinion on that game developer.
My gaming Rig is fully on Linux. CachyOS. No issues with gaming. Currently playing Jedi Survivor. Smoth experience. Ryzen 7 3700x 64Gb DDR4 3600 RAM. Nvidia GTX 1070. Even my Stadia Controller works fully wireless with rumble support out of the box native in Linux. On All platforms not just Steam. 😊
64GB RAM is awesome! I used to have 32 but two of my 8G sticks are now faulty so I am back to 16 :)
Haven't had Windows since at least 2014! Game exclusively on Linux, and it's been absolutely flawless, and I am on Intel + Nvidia combo!
Are you happy with Nvidia? There is one thing I miss that I used to have with Nvidia: HDMI 2.1
i am curious, what does hdmi 2.1 have that DP doesn't?
@@LinuxRenaissance Till Ubuntu 24.10 Wayland used to be an issue for me. But 24.10 has been flawless. No complaints whatsoever. Though, if AMD's RDNA4 can match the 4080 in RT performance I'd switch to an all AMD build. The only possible concern is CUDA, which my research depends on 🤷🏾♂️.
@@fooboomoo it is the wrong question in this case: my screen is not an actual monitor but a tv. I use LG 42” OLED as my main “monitor” and it does not have a Display Port
@@chomskyan4life you will probably have to stick to CUDA powered GPU in that case but we will see if AMD can surprise you.
I really want to give Cachy a try but I have a problem that I cannot set higher refresh rate than 60 hz on 4K, while having no issues with that on Windows. I have GTX 1070 connected to LG C4 TV via display port --> hdmi 2.1 adapter with HDMI 2.1 high speed cable.
I would appreciate any advise to make it running.
Try connecting it directly via HDMI only and see if you can get 4K120 working without that adapter. Get back to me after that, preferably on my Matrix room if I miss your reply here.
Ever since I got an all AMD Lenovo Legion a couple years ago, I planned to use it as a means to test distros and plot my escape from Microsoft.
On my Legion, I was constantly distro hoping around. My use case was simple:
I needed it to connect to external displays and controllers easy without the OS getting in the way of itself. That laptop was used as a fighting game party box mostly.
This year after the Recall and A.I integrations in 24H2, I finally had enough in Late Oct/ Early November.
Flipped over to Arch full time and haven't looked back.
Which controllers do you use and wired or wireless?
@@LinuxRenaissance I use a combination of Xbox and PS5 controllers in wired and wireless plus 3 wired arcade sticks
Everything really works well on Arch.
I play totally on linux as well. I do not understand why others do not make the switch
Maybe because of stuff like Valorant, but there are soo many SP gamers out there
4 years gaming on linux, no regrets
What program do you use for virtual LAN games with frends on linux? I ave a problem to find VPN program compatible with both systems linxus and windows. I play on Ubuntu based distro and my friends are on windows, but I must run RADMIN for VLAN gaming with my friends and this works only on windows users only. Do you have any advice? pls?
Several years ago I was using Linux for playing World of Warcraft and it worked really well. Even got slightly higher frames per second than windows for some reason.
Yeah, some games have higher framerate even after wine/proton API translation.
Switched at the beginning of the year to Arch for gaming. So smooth.
Also, nice hat.
Thank you!
I think Arch has the biggest gamer user-base compared to other distros.
I have had less issues on Linux than Windows. Proton is so good, I can usually get it to work for unsupported games .
Yep. It’s pretty cool at this point. And soon we are getting version 10
Right this has made me make the switch,, I have a few games that I play on my windows game machine%. I have an older machine that I am going to install windows on and see if I can get all my games on Linux if I can then that windows game machine will be Linux game machine. There is only one game mechwarrior online that is holding me back. If anyone has had luck on running it in Linux please share how.
MWO should work fine? www.protondb.com/app/342200
Linux gaming becomes way complicated once you leave steam and if you want to use third party programs. Yeah, is possible, but a bit more hassle than windows.
Most notably for me ATM, Veilguard. I'm comping shaders every other session for one reason or another. Proton update, recompile. Kernel update which causes a driver recompile, shader recompile. Driver update, you guessed it, shader recompile.
And that's once I found the best wine/proton to even run a game
Yes, when Ubisoft does not care about you as a customer it becomes more complicated to play a game. Perhaps it could be useful if we could share our “best settings” for non Steam games as well on ProtonDB
Did this a couple years ago. Been using Nobara.
Nobara is a really cool project!
should I use linux if I’m building a family computer? My dad and brother aren’t tech savvy so I’m concerned they may not be able to handle it. I’ve never used it myself so I apologize if I might sound silly
I would say no, unless you have the time & willing to invest time in learning Linux, as well teaching your family a different workflow on Linux depending on the software your family uses
Contrary to the other reply that you got I have installed Ubuntu for my mother and she did not even notice the change because she only uses the web browser, her bookmarks and files on desktop. My wife needed to use my computer a couple of days ago and she needed Anydesk and she went to Anydesk webpage to download it and then she got lost and called me on the phone so I told her to just get it from the Flathub Store and be done with it.
I think if you are building a family computer it could work just fine if you will be there to support them with that change, meaning you are the one who needs to know how to use it in case they get stuck.
I recommend trying Zorin Linux. That one is very stable and really easy to use.
@@LinuxRenaissance True. If all you need is a web browser or any program that is available on both Windows and Linux, then switching to Linux is still a breeze. But it gets problematic when you require certain programs that don't have a Linux version (especially if they don't run under Wine) or equivalent alternatives.
I was about to switch to Linux only. But some of the games I play do not work on Linux due to security checks.
PvP games?
Star Wars Bounty Hunter has a Platinum ProtonDB rating, but just has a blank screen for me and others.. makes me pretty nervous when a Platinum game I picked pretty much at random didn't work on my test machine (Nvidia GeForce 1050). On a positive note, Monster Hunter Rise worked though (--dx11 was the launch option to stop glitching graphics).
With ProtonDB I always filter comments for Radeon only reviews as some games behave differently on Nvidia. So overal rating may be platinum but not quite platinum for one of the GPU’s.
also other factors like distro used, driver version can make a difference
Oh hello there. Seeing you for a few months in my feed. Where did you get that cool hat?
Hi Vlad! I bought it in London in 2023 in a random hat store :)
@LinuxRenaissance cool
I switched in September. I basically only play single player games so i don't really care about anti-cheat nonsense. I've even gotten some random fan games running in Bottles without too much fuss. It's so much better than my experiences with Wine 16 or 17 years ago.
Yep, Bottles is a pretty clean experience. I love that high-quality project!
Pop-os here. The anticheat is THE only problem.
144fps on lock.... Unless you let it sleep with the game running, it won't wake correctly. 1-15fps until you restart the game.
I noticed that with some games but only on my PC. No problem on SteamDeck with sleep so it may be a Gamescope trick.
I love how far the Linux Desktop has come regarding gaming. But it is still not fully plug'n'play and a few games do not work at all, as far as I have heard. Plug'n'play is what I want for PC Gaming. Only Windows offers that.
2025 will show, if I remain dualing booting and switching to Win11 or if I go for a Linux only Setup. Basically Windows is just a game launcher plus DxO Photolab Launcher for me, used for nothing else, so I would love to ditch it, but those two things are just to important for me, so it is a hard choice.
In theory a person can be loyal to Microsoft but you can’t be loyal to Linux as nobody actually benefits financially from such loyalty. Not sure if that makes sense? So what I actually wanted to say: It’s okay to dual-boot :-)
So do I. Only on OpenSUSE TW.
Thanks for the comment. How is TW treating you?
I love linux it saves me hundreds of dollars on OS. Specifically i like pop os and i run off an external nvme drive so its like carrying a small stick i take my computer everywhere.
Ha! That’s a very cool way to have Linux installed.
How can I install Ubisoft Connect? (I use Arch btw)
Have you tried Lutris?
I use Lutirs for Ubisoft connect and I am able to play The Division 2 that way. This on CachyOS which is Arch based.
After more than a decade using Gentoo Linux, my steam report says I played 75% of the time on steam deck, 20% on Linux and less than 5% on Windows.
I only use games when I want to play with the boys some game that refuses to launch.
I think having a spare disk for emergency windows boot is a good idea for people that still need windows.
Some other times.. like on Marvel Rivals works on Linux and refuses to launch on Windows.
(I need to format windows without any reason)
It’s not a bad idea to keep Windows for games that matter to you. It’s just that in my case those games are no more.
I use Nvidia GPU... Can I also switch? I heard Nvidia drivers suck on Linux.
Not that bad actually. AMD experience is better, but NVIDIA work well on x11 and just ok on wayland, so you diffidently can switch. My recommendation is linux mint cause it's install video drivers for you and it's easy for beginner, but NVIDIA works at almost every distro, so you can use whatever you want ^_^
I agree with what @basilyes said. I would say Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu, Pop_OS. All are okay with Nvidia out of the box, but perhaps Mint is the most appropriate. And if you can chose the type of the session on the login screen chose X11 with Nvidia, for now.
There was one case I remember a year ago Starfield came out and it did not work at all on Nvidia, but it worked okay on AMD. That's the only concrete case I can remember from the top of my head that the game just outright did not work at all on Nvidia.
My recommendation is to chose maybe one of your favorite games and play it on Linux to get yourself comfortable, as dual-booting is pretty easy. If you need help in stalling Linux dual-boot I made a special video for that sometime back in April. I think it's titled installing Ubuntu 24.04 or something like that. Instructions should be fairly applicable to Mint as well.
Also, don't play games on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 24 does some things that are less than ideal.
Okay, I'll give Mint a shot with dual booting. Thanks guys.
no issues using Nvidia with Wayland here. a lot has improved this year with the driver
I keep a windows partition for escape from tarkov and battlefield. Linux has been working mostly fine for cs2 and hearthstone which i play mostly right now.
How is Tarkov nowadays? I used to want to get into it, but in the meantime I kinda stopped doing PvP as I don't have much time for live gameplay anymore. What I mean is that I now mostly play games that have a pause button.
I stopped playing games on pc long time ago. Before i switched to Mac os. But i always loved PlayStation and that is where i game. I don't play games a lot these days. Now I'm 5 years on Linux. I was to play games on pc, it would ve on Linux for sure.
Thank you for the comment! 🙏 Gaming on a console is perfectly legitimate and easy. But for those who play games on PC exclusively I wanted to share some of my real world stats so they can see that I am not just empty words when I talk about gaming on Linux. It’s really good nowadays.
AMD GPU is better for linux? Do you guys know?
It is better in a way that it “just works”. With NVidia you have to deal with drivers and some games don’t work and Wayland (new way od showing a picture on your screen) support was spotty. Now Wayland support seems to be better, but overall Linux community tends to prefer Radeon because of its open source drivers that work without installing literally anything.
I run emulation but the only one that does not work well is ds emulator opengl always crash
I don’t have experience with that one. I hope you will find a way to fix it
@@LinuxRenaissance tbh its not really an issue i use frameskip to run 60
You beat me by 3%. 3% of my play Time was on Windows 97% was Linux and Steam Deck(Linux). I use Garada Linux.
Other than that I agree with you.
Thank you for the comment ❤😊
Tried Linux challenge for 1 month, but sadly switched back to windows after. Living in 3rd world country, me and my friends doesn't have much money to buy games, so we are using the jolly roger versions of them. And to play with my friends in those versions of the game on linux is very much hit or miss. While everyone were ready to play, I was spending hours trying to make them to work.
Yes, I understand that.
I’ve got onlinefix to work even though if was one game I’m sure they all work the same way. It was a while ago so I don’t remember how but it is definitely possible.
Have you tried bottles or heroic games launcher? I haven't had any troubles getting alternate versions working with either.
@@phantomx8131 tried bottles. It was hit or miss. Some games worked, others won't. If game needed epic games confirmation via browser, it wouldn't work for example.
I tried to move over to Linux but ended back on windows...standard gaming on Linux was fine - had a good experience, but Modded gaming on Linux was not nice and sent me back to Windows - I play Fallout 4 with Mod Packs/Collections and Wabbajack won't run under Linux period, Vortex is almost as bad - and no I'm not going to manually install 1000s of mods. Until recently Mod Organiser 2 also didn't work for Starfield, not sure if that's now changed with the latest release. I have loved my time on Linux...but I'm a gamer so for me Linux is not quite there yet - god its close...
Yeah I was going to say that manual mods install can work, but you are absolutely correct that we need a native organiser for that. Sadly we are not there just yet.
On Starfield I did use one mod, though. Achievement enabler because I used a command for unlimited storage on me. I was too lazy to unload my stuff into the Starship all the time.
My RTX3070 performance is 20-30% worse on Linux pop os compared to Windows. :/
That depends on the game. Some games peform better on Linux, some perform worse. Most of my games perform very similar except Starfield - that one loses some serious frames on Linux.
i hope Nvidia will get us there soon. they have picked up the pace considerably this year improving their drivers.
Stardew, Skyrim, Forza Horizon, Dead Cells, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim, and more. I game on Linux with NO problems.
Skyrim is awesome :)
@LinuxRenaissance Steam upgraded me to the Anniversary Edition... I'm undecided on whether I like the new stuff or not.
@ I believe there is now native ultrawide support, but I don’t play survival mode. Fishing might be nice
@LinuxRenaissance haven't tried the ultra wide or VR stuff. Fishing is okay, just slow. One cool thing about fishing is that you can swim and find the same fish you would catch. Adds to the depth (haha) of the experience.
The only game I play is Wold of Warcraft, and it runs on Linux with Lutris
Unfortunately the games I want to play require kernel level anti-cheats, so I'd rather use Windows for gaming and Linux for productivity 😢
I support such rational thinking. 🫡
This is a revolution brah.
We are going to take over brah.
If you don't believe me you will see next brah.
I will make sure everyone will use GNU/Linux brah.
Much love and peace
JackedLinuxUser
We will get there, together! 🫡
My year in Steam shows mostly Linux with some macOS and some Steam Deck... I've not used Windows personally for over two years now. Even the wife's gaming PC runs Linux Mint.
Never going back.
Thank you 🙏
god damn your voice is so deep i thought that my speakers are dead
That’s because I’m sick 🤧
You showed Microsoft who's the boss!
I would pin this if I did not already pin Kaden 🙃
@@LinuxRenaissance I think Kaden won't mind
I've been using Linux Mint for 6 months, games work most of the time but the biggest issue I have is managing game files it's so annoying to search the proton filepath
Path is the tiniest “problem” to have ❤️
in steam, under manage game you can go directly to the path its super easy
@@fooboomoo True, but games store config files in Windows document folder, also some games like Content Warning save videos to the dekstop so u have to dig trough that
@@RickAstleyGaming404 that does sound annoying
Lemme' guess...Fedora?
Arch
My playtime was 95% Windows and 5% Linux 🙁
Next year it should be 100% Linux 🙃
I feel like I already replied to this message but just in case I did not: do the force it. You will get there! 🫡
@@LinuxRenaissance I already bought a new SSD for the sole purpose of installing Linux on, i don't think i will need Windows for anything but i will still have my old SSD if i do 🫠
gosh is this our true final form, will I grow a beard that gorgeus?😂 Been linux gaming on wayland for 2 years now since apex had support, dx12 games are still unstable for me, for now I have to put VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr;no_upload_hvv;force_host_cached as env var for my 5600xt. Other than that and apex dropped support, its been great.
On kde wayland, theres hdr and vsync off too
Have you seen my "intro" video on how to be a real Linux user? haha.
Thank you very much!
Too bad about Apex. That was a bit stupid from EA, TBH.
Linux gaming is better than it's ever been, but I still had to walk away from Mint after 3 months because the experience is still a huge headache compared to Windows. Linux fans will screech about Nvidia all day, but the net result is still that Windows gaming is better no matter what company is responsible for the problems.
A bit problematic is the fact that Nvidia is the superior choice for gaming on Windows, while AMD is the superior choice for gaming on Linux. So, gamers who give Linux a try mostly own Nvidia (naturally) which does not give them the best experience that Linux offers. I have also had an RTX card when I started gaming more on Linux than on Windows and eventually I swapped it for a Radeon card for a better experience. It is what it is.
they do not play on linux because it requires too much effort on their part
This is all true. If it wasn't for Linux, how would I run Cyberpunk 2077?
😎😎
I installed Mint Cinnamon about 2 weeks ago and have issues trying to run Steam, it won't run without doing so through the terminal, and My pc often does a random restart when installing games, haven't really played anything yet, I have no clue what's up
Do you know where did you install Steam from? Did you download Steam installer from Valve website or something else? Also do you have Nvidia GPU or AMD? Random restart does not sound like something I heard of, unless it's a hardware malfunction, tbh. If you have enough willpower to get started with Linux and you need a bit of a push, join my Matrix room and I will try to give you a hand. Here on TH-cam comments it is very difficult to track who replied to me as I get a lot of replies and sometimes I miss some of them.
Id like to go to Linux but im worried about 1 game not working ATLAS pirate game from the devs of ark survival evolved second is modding Fallout 4 i love modding that game these 2 things is what's keeping me from going to Linux.
I don’t have any fresh info on Atlas and I don’t own it to try it. Hope they fix it
Unless linux just decides to break, Rn there is no controller support for stalker 2. Gpu control sucks. No AMD zero fan control. I could go on, it has a while still but has potential.
Controller works perfectly in Stalker 2, what are you even on about?
I think you are mistaken about controller topic or you failed to express your problem. I have never had a problem with my controller on Linux. Quite literally never.
@@necuz Unless they just patched it, before it was using an exclusive microsoft input and nothing wouls make it work under linux through steam. Its not xoneinput. pretty well known if you look into it. Other than that the other issues i listed are a lot more of a problem. I generally get better performance on windows. Some exceptions but only by a few fps. I completely de bloat and strip windows of telemetry and ai.
@@LinuxRenaissance Quick google search could colve your "never" lol Its a known issue unless it was just patched. Its aan exclusive microsoft input that doesnt fit with xoneinput devices.
@@LinuxRenaissance You wouldnt have as this is a new input released from Microsoft. Firsy thing i found when having issues was that and a lot of people in the same boat. I could make it work by making it recognize my controller as a keyboard but that functioned terribly. Any other Linux channels i mentioned to used m+k because of this issue. They also recognized it as a problem its not just me. I cannot achieve full power out of my 7900xt under linux as well. Undervolting doesnt work quite right. Used core ctrl and LACT. Its a linux bug still for rx7000 GPUs. I cant even pull 300w lol. Thats on a completely up to date distro with all the mesa updates and permissions.
Runs much better , much less stutter than windows , my rig RX 7900xtx , ryzen 9800x3d , 1440p , nobaraos
7000-series Radeon will only get better with time. Good pick!
"Why I Switched to Linux for Gaming: No More Windows" - maybe because Linux is your primary and only OS?
In 2023 my Steam stats says 71% Windows and that’s because some games worked slightly better on there. So it’s not as you thought. I really did consciously remove Windows from all my computers last year. It is important to me that I verify on my own skin first, the things that I preach on this channel. It would be hypocritical from me if I said one thing and do another.
Apologies for a bit of philosophy, but this topic is important to me. I have zero problem with people playing games on Windows. I just want to show the level of possibility of gaming on Linux so that people get this information. What they do with it I leave up to them.
Im started Gaming in Linuxmint just a year ago. I just bought Logitech G29 steering wheel and im worried that it has no software for linux. I just plug it but does not detected by steam, but it worked flawlessly in Forza horizon 5. Its good.
I don't have a wheel, but a quick internet search gave me this link. It says you need to switch it to PS3 mode. Maybe this link can help you: steamcommunity.com/app/310560/discussions/0/1776010325125699594/
@@LinuxRenaissance Thanks but my Logitech G29 has pc/p5/ps4 switch. I think its brand new model
🐧🎮
Unfortunately, League of Legends is unavailable on Linux due to their horrible anticheat
DOTA 2? :-D
@LinuxRenaissance absolutely no 🫠
@@LinuxRenaissance Dota is horrible
Can't play multiple player games without having antcheat kernel on some of these games now day's 😒
Unfortunately that’s the state of competitive gaming nowadays. Perhaps you can play those games on a console, but if you prefer PC then dual-booting is an option. Albeit an annoying one.
Cause ur limited edition ❤️
You too my man!
I may sound like an ass kisser. But Steam really is the best there is. And I think at the end of ext year I will be saying the same about Linux.
It’s not ass kissing to say nice things about Steam, IMO, if Valve invests effort into making games “just work” on Linux.
its not that i "love" linux.
switched 3 years ago to fedora and never going back.
windows is just bloated
and the auto update was a nightmare
Yes, love may be a word too strong for software. How is Fedora treating you?
@@LinuxRenaissance its not very great either.
last week i run the dnf update (f40 to f41)
and then i got a black screen
many nvidia users get same result.
its cool tho, since installing fedora again was so easy.
thanks for listening, have a great xmas
You too! 🎄
Cuz he’s a nerd chat 😂
Correct.
of course that plus it is easily possible :-)
ANTICHEAT
Yes!
Buy used console of your choice to keep the children happy, and have some time at the machine for yourself
I'm glad I can't play cod apex or fortnight cus those games suck 😂 I can play just about everything else
You have good spirit ☺️
the only things on windows is a bunch of woke crap you dont want to play anyways...
Old games are better. Is that what we are saying?