When it comes to things like the radeon software that isnt supported in linux, or things like AFMF aswell are not supported on everything, if a game supports frame gen with fsr then it will work ootb with proton, amd has recently started working on bringing more support to wayland which "may" support AFMF in the future as a protocol of some sort maybe (this is hopium)
AFMF is cool but the one feature I'm really excited for is Radeon Chill. It's really underrated feature been using it before a switch a lot especially since I Play on a laptop the potential power it can save allowed me dependly on the game give extra hour or two worth battery time, it's amazing and I want it badly lol
That's not all, Linux DOESN'T enable hardware accelerated video codecs, and Polaris doesn't have working drivers in 32 bit. Then while steam is 32 bit and supports CLI, you can't install it in 32 bit, because the browser is 64 bit, despite Chrome being open source. So ultimately, Linux PRETENDS it works better than windows, while having worse support on both the low end AND high end. You are STUCK using RDNA2, because that's what's in the steam deck, and nothing else works as good. Got a 1080 ti? Not on Linux. 32 bit? Not on Linux. Video acceleration? Not on Linux. What ahead KDE? Literally doesn't work, black screen, unless you're using RDNA 2. GCN barely works, Nvidia doesn't at all. It's twice as slow in 32 bit, and lacks feature support for the latest hardware.
@ sorry to hear that I have GCN architecture in my system and haven't had problems so far but maybe my use cases are not demanding enough to encouter those isseus althought I do agree that there is no video acceleration but my model wasn't supporting it either on windows so idk. Hope that maybe ACS or what ever amd named that will fix those issues for you cause I believe that's why they are doing it so finger cross. I can also suggest to maybe try arch to manually set everything maybe it will fix some issues like the one with KDE. Good luck bro. EDIT: I just get what you meant, 32 bit cpu are you running then Im not suprise. I saw there are distros made for those system cause they handle data differently so I can imagine why you have those issues.
@erixIsOffline I got GCN 1 working, the problem is Polaris. AMD released 32 bit Windows 10 drivers, but not Windows 7. Windows 7 only got 64bit. So you need GCN 1 for Windows 7 and Linux 32 bit, while Linux doesn't support codecs and KDE black screens. Linux also has zero OS restrictions, yet only provides Firefox ESR for 32 bit. There's literally ZERO reasons to use Linux on older hardware because it runs like garbage, and yet that's always been the argument TO run Linux. So THEY LIED. Then Linux is SOLELY optimized for RDNA2 in modern hardware. The WHOLE THING is basically solely optimized for Steam Deck. If you run ANY video hardware outside of steam deck spec (RDNA2) it runs like crap, and Linux STILL isn't feature complete with RDNA2 or Windows APIs in Wine / Proton, Wayland, or desktop environments. KDE is the most modern, but is also the MOST reliant on modern AMD hardware to work. As for what distro, my old PC only supports booting from a CD, and severely limits what distro can install, basically mageia and tumbleweed. Mageia kinda works, while tumbleweed locks up, or at least it did before I had a GCN 1 card. Maybe it'll work now, but it takes hours to install.
For hardware acceleration yes it does? Have you heard of vaapi? I use vaapi decoding and encoding on almost everything like Firefox, OBS, GPU screen recorder, even discord with a third party client because discord doesn't support it yet If you're on extremely old hardware then yeah you're not gonna have a fun time trying to play games on Linux Linux on older hardware is better for simple tasks that is all, not gaming, I'm not expecting my 2015 laptop to play games easily without problems on linux Earn some money and upgrade it, that is the only option if your not a developer I feel like you're pointing out things that don't rlly matter like windows APIs that are supposedly missing, what APIs don't work in wine? I'd rlly like to know that it actually affects you as a user lol Also my mate has a rdna3 GPU and he had no issues playing games on Linux so its not true that rdna2 is the only good choice on Linux lol
THANK YOU for posting about LACT!!! I tried to use coreCTRL but wasn't able to use any in-depth undervolting features on my RX6800. Now I have uninstalled coreCTRL in favor of LACT, which automatically changed OS settings to enable ALL the juicy overclocking features. I also really love that you don't need to start the program to run the default profile, now with all the undervolted values.
@@matiasm.3124 aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git I have AMD so it uses vaapi decoding on the GPU for the wallpaper so no cpu usage taken
@ non stop driver issues on windows for specific games and programs, but flawless on my fresh bazzite install so far, set it up as an HTPC, got HDR working under game scope, I’m happy with it
@Revanced-b2s Oh, I haven't heard anything about this sort of issue. What do you mean? I'm mostly saying because of the great tools for easy setup and installation of Resolve and the like
I'm not sure if it was mentioned but if you have both RADV and amdvlk installed at the same time. Amdvlk sets itself as the default. However you can switch between them on the fly with environment variables. You can launch one program with RADV and another with amdvlk. I have both installed but set my environment to have RADV as default and i switch to amdvlk if a game has visual glitches such as the Monster Hunter Wilds first open beta had for me.
Yeah that's cool, I was thinking of the regular user tho for this video, environment variables is something Linux noobs won't know about and may be skeptical using
That is cool but I never understood what are the command to use to switch from RADV to AMDVLK because on the arch wiki there's only the command to switch from AMDVLK to RADV. Can you share it how you do it thanks? :)
The times I installed pure arch I always ended up using AMDVLK, because it is the only one that I easily relate to AMD, it never gave me any failure either in wine or native games
What about CoreCTRL for overclocking and other stuff like that on AMD gpus? i always use it whenever i got my old Vega inside :D also question - what are you using for the animated wallpaper?
@@Karti200 LACT already does this well enough, if you want CPU overclocking then corectrl can do that I'm using a KDE wallpaper plugin which allows you to use wallpaper engine live wallpapers aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git
You can install up to date mesa on ubuntu-based distros using a PPA. LTS versions of ubuntu and derivatives are still not ideal due to the old versions of desktop enviroments though which lack important wayland features. (unless the derivative ships a different up to date desktop) The first gen and 2ng gen AMD GCN gpus like e.g the Radeon HD 7970 needs a kernel parameter set to use the AMDGPU driver instead of the radeon kernel driver and to have vulkan support. I think a few distros like nobara and bazzite does this by default.
@@olnnn yeah I didn't add the PPA stuff because I feel like LTS is meant for a reason, stability, you can use a PPA from kisak etc and probs have a fine time, just feels a bit Frankenstein lol
yes i am using wallpaper engine kde 6 plugin git from the aur aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git and the wallpaper is steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638079178
I'm currently using Arch with an RTX 3080, but I want to switch to AMD for better compatibility. How difficult would it be to do that? Is it as simple as switching to the motherboards intergrated AMD graphics, uninstalling the current Nvidia drivers, switching out the cards, and then installing AMD drivers?
when i switched to amd from nvidia you just uninstall all of the nvidia packages and thats it, you also need vulkan-radeon package, mesa should already be installed but make sure that is installed that is it i have done plenty of testing removing nvidia drivers on arch switching from nvidia to amd back and fourth for making other videos so its pretty easy if you know what packages to remove these are some of the nvidia packages to remove sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia if you use open drivers then this sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia
@linuxnext u have Intel processor but an rx6600 what what is the best distro for gaming ? I am using bazzite rn but I don't like that I always start in steam deck mode
@gockartzz8272 if you don't like that you should have not chosen steam gaming mode to be enabled on bazzite, the good thing is you can rebase the bazzite image to the normal desktop version so that doesn't launch everytime by doing rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable This will rebase the image on bazzite to the desktop version instead of the deck image and only rebases the root system, so your files won't be lost or applications you have installed as they are installed in home If you want to try something new then something like cachyos is something to try out personally but be warned it is arch and a new distro for you in guessing so you will have to learn cachyos.org/
I'd say CoreCtrl is still a better option when it comes to overclocking. It is just a more well-established name, and I am very pleased with its stability. LACT is a good option as well, I guess, but I don't have much experience with it, because there is no reason for me to switch from something that works great for years.
yeah sure, but thats why you should try lact so you get a actual opinion on which one is better for you, not which one has been around for longer so it has more "brand recognition"
@@linuxnext When I said I didn't have much experience with it I didn't mean I haven't used it. I did for several weeks. Then I just asked myself: why? Why does anybody need to try and find an alternative to something that works without issues for a long time? To risk to get in trouble with a newer alternative (such as instabilities or other bugs which are not uncommon in fresh and not well-tested software) just for the sake of novelty? That doesn't make much sense to me. Of course I might be missing something here. Anyways, thank you for a perspective. I'll get back to it later, and maybe my perspective would change as well, but I am not there yet.
I'm havin trouble with Steam, so it wont recognize any other ssd etc other that the one with the operating system on it, got flatseal and cant figure out which Filesystem to toggle as ive tried them all one by one and steam just dosnt start up?
First you need to remount the drives with a partition manager, by default Linux will mount drives with a weird name that won't make sense for steam Flatpak, I mount my drive in /home/yourusername/Drives/Games Then I make sure I add exec so steam can execute it properly to the fstab for the drive which is how the drives automount on boot With something like KDE partition manager, you can change the mount then make sure in options that users can mount and unmount and don't prevent the system from booting if not mountable is ticked, then to add exec to fstab you click more.. and then type exec, ok, ok again, agree for KDE partition manager to save this to fstab After you go back to flatseal, and add the path of where the drive is mounted, restart steam and steam should be able to see it properly
I'd really love someone to cover flatpaks. I still avoid them like the plague. Tried Nobara again. Everything is Flatpak. Can't find OBS to put in my plugins. Discord can't see what game is playing in steam for the activity feed. I've been on Linux exclusively over a year now and avoiding flatpaks still determines what distro I run.
Obs plugins only work with flatpak plugin versions for obs so when you install a plugin you install it with flatpak install or through the gui store plugins for obs studio For discord thats because flatpak is containerized so it just cant see your processes that are running This is where you run a mixture of flatpak and system like i do What plugins do you use on obs?
I use pop os 22.04 on an external hard drive, i have tried updating to later versions of mesa but there isn't a lot of info about it so its difficult to know if I am doing things right. I would like to be able to install the latest amd drivers on my laptop, I have amd radeon vega 8 graphics.
if you want to know what has changed check the changelogs of the mesa releases docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html one way to check what mesa version your running is by using steam, help, system information, scroll down to video card
@@simonefelici6502 Intel arc is the exact same process, the problem is the issues with ANV in mesa has graphical bugs in some games so we have to wait for newer mesa releases If I get an Intel arc card I'll 100% do a video about it tho :)
Hi, I'm using debian and it seems that I can play games and I can record with av1 so do I already have these drivers or the drivers that you are introducing here are for different use ? Should I install them ? And can I have an app where I can enable like frame gen or any other amd's techno
Do this glxinfo | grep -i mesa Then tell me what version it is Also what package are you using for av1 encoding? Is this on OBS? If so is it Flatpak or system version There are a lot of little things that happen when you are using an older version of mesa + kernel on the newest GPUs, you can use the mesa and kernel that debian provides but you will experience issues with newer games at some point that will require a newer version, if your playing older games then you probs won't experience many problems if at all, then there is power issues in some games that was fixed in 6.13 and downstreamed to 6.12 so on debian you won't have that and so you may experience problems with that at somepoint, you may not be getting the maximum performance you should be getting, if your not a power user like me who wants everything to be newest and best then debian is fine for AMD but if you see problems don't be surprised
Am I the only one that has poor graphics with an AMD GPU? I'm new to linux and I searched Google trying to find a good GPU recommendation for linux. I don't do any gaming, I just watch TH-cam videos and do office tasks. I decided on the AMD RX 550 2GB. It installed easily and the linux distro installed the correct drivers, but the graphics looked terrible. I searched and could never find a solution. After a few days, I removed it and installed a cheap Nvidia 710. The linux distro installed the drivers, and the graphics look so much better. The same AMD RX 550 in Windows 10 the graphics looked great. So tell me is there a way to optimize the graphics for the AMD GPUs in Linux? I just can't seem to find any info on optimizing the graphics for AMD GPUs. Sorry for the long rant.
@@linuxnext So my desktop has an integrated Radeon HD 4250 and the graphics look good with Linux Mint. But when I watch TH-cam videos the integrated GPU cannot keep up. So I bought an RX 550 2GB. I installed it and the graphics don't look nearly as good, but this same RX 550 2GB looks great in Windows. So I don't know if the poor graphics is an issue with Linux Mint using the Radeon Driver or the AMDGPU driver. I suspect it has something to do with that. But when I see these videos on how to setup AMd GPUs in Linux, nobody covers whether you should be using the Radeon driver or the AMGGPU drivers. How to know which one you should be using. I guess it's based on performance. I know AMD makes really good GPUs, I just can't get the one I have working like it should in Linux.
@tommygomez5343 still confused with "graphics" please explain what looks "worse" do you mean graphics by the video game graphics? Do you mean the display looks worse? also this video does say to use amdgpu as it's the default in the kernel and is what is best maintained for lots of amd gpus + mesa for graphics API compatibility for things like gaming
i dont experience this issue as it says overdrive is enabled for me also, i actually tried disabling it but it didnt seem to work, you can try tho by doing this sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu.conf options amdgpu overdrive=0 ctrl-x, y and enter to save
@linuxnext Thanks for your reply. I just reinstalled it and switched the GRUB mode to rEFind. With rEFind, I no longer see the command line appearing at the beginning of the boot. So, everything's fine, I was able to apply lactdn.I think that resolved the issue. It's been over two hours now, and everything is working great. Thanks again
Did you click advanced in the encoding settings? It will be VAAPI, OBS already provided vaapi for AMD and Intel Also recommend using OBS Flatpak for it to work properly and for it to be there in the settings On windows it uses amf while on Linux it uses vaapi encoding, you can also add some of the plugins of the other vaapi options like gstreamer vaapi
@nikitf7777 if you want the best quality you can add quality=5 to the options at the bottom of the vaapi options, this will give you the best quality that is on par with windows
Yo! Good video btw. I have a request, please make a video about btrfs on arch. I have installed it and whenever I try to restore any snapshot my / (root) gets unmounted although my system works fine. i have searched some articles and vids but they are very advanced and I can't quite understand them so please this is a request from an arch user.
If you want to use BTRFS I suggest you spend the time learning about it. Arch wiki has a good amount of information but I would highly suggest reading the official documentation and the OpenSUSE wiki on Snapper (the tool use to do rollbacks). In terms of your root unmounting, depending on how you set it up most likely it has to do with how you set your /etc/fstab and the subvolid of your root. Your root / in BTRFS is actually // or /@ by convention, which is just a subvolume like any other. You can run "sudo btrfs lis /" to see your subvolumes.
Hello, I am having a problem when I want to overclock, I have the 'amdgpu' drivers but I get the following error when I want to do it: "Could not write config: The file or directory does not exist (os error 2)" PD: I'm noob.
@@linuxnext The tool you provide is not that well known, however it is spectacular, it works like the original AMD overclock. Thank you very much friend, I subscribe, greetings from Argentina.
Bought 7700 xt because people said amd is good on linux, couldn't set up fans. When temperature below 50C, it's going to 0 RPM, and I don't like it. The colder PC the better, so I want it to spin at least at 20% all the time.
@@timkalier alright have you tried LACT? you can customise the fans that way with a curve or custom temps for each fan speed github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
@@T3st_B3nch rlly? Which games and what GPU? If this is the case I would like you to learn to log these results and put them on this website for benchmarking flightlessmango.com/ You use mangohud + goverlay to log the fps then upload the log file to that site Iv never seen results of where vlk is better then RADV in past 3 years of me using Linux so I'd rlly like to see these results results like this show radv being better in about every case then vlk, vlk only starts the take the lead in some 4k tests www.phoronix.com/review/amdvlk-radv-rx7900/2
Problem with the drivers and GPU + if the GPU doesn't support Vulkan 1.3 and supports a wide variety of Vulkan extensions then you'll have issues running Vulkan like dxvk, vkd3d etc My Laptop has this issue, supports Vulkan 1.3 but majority of games don't launch properly with proton because the laptop is from 2015 and the drivers are incomplete, funny tho Vulkan isn't supported on windows with my laptop
Yeah you are not gonna have a fun time with that, as someone else said proton-sarek may help github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek But with Vulkan 1.1 you will continue to see issues until you get hardware that supports 1.3 atleast
When it comes to things like the radeon software that isnt supported in linux, or things like AFMF aswell are not supported on everything, if a game supports frame gen with fsr then it will work ootb with proton, amd has recently started working on bringing more support to wayland which "may" support AFMF in the future as a protocol of some sort maybe (this is hopium)
AFMF is cool but the one feature I'm really excited for is Radeon Chill. It's really underrated feature been using it before a switch a lot especially since I Play on a laptop the potential power it can save allowed me dependly on the game give extra hour or two worth battery time, it's amazing and I want it badly lol
That's not all, Linux DOESN'T enable hardware accelerated video codecs, and Polaris doesn't have working drivers in 32 bit. Then while steam is 32 bit and supports CLI, you can't install it in 32 bit, because the browser is 64 bit, despite Chrome being open source. So ultimately, Linux PRETENDS it works better than windows, while having worse support on both the low end AND high end. You are STUCK using RDNA2, because that's what's in the steam deck, and nothing else works as good. Got a 1080 ti? Not on Linux. 32 bit? Not on Linux. Video acceleration? Not on Linux. What ahead KDE? Literally doesn't work, black screen, unless you're using RDNA 2. GCN barely works, Nvidia doesn't at all. It's twice as slow in 32 bit, and lacks feature support for the latest hardware.
@ sorry to hear that I have GCN architecture in my system and haven't had problems so far but maybe my use cases are not demanding enough to encouter those isseus althought I do agree that there is no video acceleration but my model wasn't supporting it either on windows so idk. Hope that maybe ACS or what ever amd named that will fix those issues for you cause I believe that's why they are doing it so finger cross. I can also suggest to maybe try arch to manually set everything maybe it will fix some issues like the one with KDE. Good luck bro.
EDIT: I just get what you meant, 32 bit cpu are you running then Im not suprise. I saw there are distros made for those system cause they handle data differently so I can imagine why you have those issues.
@erixIsOffline I got GCN 1 working, the problem is Polaris. AMD released 32 bit Windows 10 drivers, but not Windows 7. Windows 7 only got 64bit. So you need GCN 1 for Windows 7 and Linux 32 bit, while Linux doesn't support codecs and KDE black screens. Linux also has zero OS restrictions, yet only provides Firefox ESR for 32 bit. There's literally ZERO reasons to use Linux on older hardware because it runs like garbage, and yet that's always been the argument TO run Linux. So THEY LIED. Then Linux is SOLELY optimized for RDNA2 in modern hardware. The WHOLE THING is basically solely optimized for Steam Deck. If you run ANY video hardware outside of steam deck spec (RDNA2) it runs like crap, and Linux STILL isn't feature complete with RDNA2 or Windows APIs in Wine / Proton, Wayland, or desktop environments. KDE is the most modern, but is also the MOST reliant on modern AMD hardware to work. As for what distro, my old PC only supports booting from a CD, and severely limits what distro can install, basically mageia and tumbleweed. Mageia kinda works, while tumbleweed locks up, or at least it did before I had a GCN 1 card. Maybe it'll work now, but it takes hours to install.
For hardware acceleration yes it does? Have you heard of vaapi? I use vaapi decoding and encoding on almost everything like Firefox, OBS, GPU screen recorder, even discord with a third party client because discord doesn't support it yet
If you're on extremely old hardware then yeah you're not gonna have a fun time trying to play games on Linux
Linux on older hardware is better for simple tasks that is all, not gaming, I'm not expecting my 2015 laptop to play games easily without problems on linux
Earn some money and upgrade it, that is the only option if your not a developer
I feel like you're pointing out things that don't rlly matter like windows APIs that are supposedly missing, what APIs don't work in wine? I'd rlly like to know that it actually affects you as a user lol
Also my mate has a rdna3 GPU and he had no issues playing games on Linux so its not true that rdna2 is the only good choice on Linux lol
I'm glad that this video exists, I really wish there were more of these 'basic' videos when I started using Linux
Exactly, it's an overlooked aspect. On the other hand, I don't think that many streamers focus on gaming specifically on Linux.
You turn your PC on. That's it
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Yep.. just add ProtonUp and Proton (GE)
That’s one of the reasons why I love my RX 7900 XT
Same! I have a mini ITX build with Kubuntu and a 7900xt running as a mini rig console and it’s been a beast.
THANK YOU for posting about LACT!!! I tried to use coreCTRL but wasn't able to use any in-depth undervolting features on my RX6800. Now I have uninstalled coreCTRL in favor of LACT, which automatically changed OS settings to enable ALL the juicy overclocking features. I also really love that you don't need to start the program to run the default profile, now with all the undervolted values.
Bazzite is MVP for those who don't like to configure things and just want a working linux PC.
OMG I need that sushi keyboard switch animated wallpaper
@@thatzaliasguy steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638079178
@@linuxnextWhat engine do you use for live wallpapers ?? How about cpu usage ? The one that had native in plasma is gone.
@@matiasm.3124 aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git
I have AMD so it uses vaapi decoding on the GPU for the wallpaper so no cpu usage taken
i just switched to amd this week, i dont know how you always upload the exact video i need right as i need it lol
Lmao, how is the GPU?
@ non stop driver issues on windows for specific games and programs, but flawless on my fresh bazzite install so far, set it up as an HTPC, got HDR working under game scope, I’m happy with it
@tj6191 awesome to hear enjoy :)
Welcome to the red side! I've had great experiences with amd all around for years.
@@tj6191 is it driver timeout issue by any chance?
This should be a 10 second video: "plug it in and turn on the computer"
Nobara has been killing it lately! I want to give it a real try soon
If you mean killing it by updates wreaking havoc in systems then yes, it has been killing it
@Revanced-b2s Oh, I haven't heard anything about this sort of issue. What do you mean? I'm mostly saying because of the great tools for easy setup and installation of Resolve and the like
I'm not sure if it was mentioned but if you have both RADV and amdvlk installed at the same time. Amdvlk sets itself as the default. However you can switch between them on the fly with environment variables. You can launch one program with RADV and another with amdvlk. I have both installed but set my environment to have RADV as default and i switch to amdvlk if a game has visual glitches such as the Monster Hunter Wilds first open beta had for me.
Yeah that's cool, I was thinking of the regular user tho for this video, environment variables is something Linux noobs won't know about and may be skeptical using
That is cool but I never understood what are the command to use to switch from RADV to AMDVLK because on the arch wiki there's only the command to switch from AMDVLK to RADV. Can you share it how you do it thanks? :)
The times I installed pure arch I always ended up using AMDVLK, because it is the only one that I easily relate to AMD, it never gave me any failure either in wine or native games
yeah its a robust driver ngl
What about CoreCTRL for overclocking and other stuff like that on AMD gpus?
i always use it whenever i got my old Vega inside :D
also question - what are you using for the animated wallpaper?
@@Karti200 LACT already does this well enough, if you want CPU overclocking then corectrl can do that
I'm using a KDE wallpaper plugin which allows you to use wallpaper engine live wallpapers
aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git
thanks, this will be useful for me eventually
You can install up to date mesa on ubuntu-based distros using a PPA. LTS versions of ubuntu and derivatives are still not ideal due to the old versions of desktop enviroments though which lack important wayland features. (unless the derivative ships a different up to date desktop)
The first gen and 2ng gen AMD GCN gpus like e.g the Radeon HD 7970 needs a kernel parameter set to use the AMDGPU driver instead of the radeon kernel driver and to have vulkan support. I think a few distros like nobara and bazzite does this by default.
@@olnnn yeah I didn't add the PPA stuff because I feel like LTS is meant for a reason, stability, you can use a PPA from kisak etc and probs have a fine time, just feels a bit Frankenstein lol
very handy video especially for newbies
0:44 good video. Where did you get that wallpaper btw? Are you using Wallpaper engine or something similar??
yes i am using wallpaper engine kde 6 plugin git from the aur
aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git
and the wallpaper is
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2638079178
@@linuxnext Thank you for sharing!
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@@Nullarino huh? That's interesting
@@linuxnext It is man, the people must know my facts
I'm currently using Arch with an RTX 3080, but I want to switch to AMD for better compatibility.
How difficult would it be to do that?
Is it as simple as switching to the motherboards intergrated AMD graphics, uninstalling the current Nvidia drivers, switching out the cards, and then installing AMD drivers?
when i switched to amd from nvidia you just uninstall all of the nvidia packages and thats it, you also need vulkan-radeon package, mesa should already be installed but make sure that is installed
that is it
i have done plenty of testing removing nvidia drivers on arch switching from nvidia to amd back and fourth for making other videos so its pretty easy if you know what packages to remove
these are some of the nvidia packages to remove
sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia
if you use open drivers then this
sudo pacman -R lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia
Strait up whats the best preforming linux distro for gaming ?
@gockartzz8272 are you on AMD?
@@linuxnext yup
@@linuxnext yes
@linuxnext u have Intel processor but an rx6600 what what is the best distro for gaming ? I am using bazzite rn but I don't like that I always start in steam deck mode
@gockartzz8272 if you don't like that you should have not chosen steam gaming mode to be enabled on bazzite, the good thing is you can rebase the bazzite image to the normal desktop version so that doesn't launch everytime by doing
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
This will rebase the image on bazzite to the desktop version instead of the deck image and only rebases the root system, so your files won't be lost or applications you have installed as they are installed in home
If you want to try something new then something like cachyos is something to try out personally but be warned it is arch and a new distro for you in guessing so you will have to learn
cachyos.org/
I'd say CoreCtrl is still a better option when it comes to overclocking. It is just a more well-established name, and I am very pleased with its stability. LACT is a good option as well, I guess, but I don't have much experience with it, because there is no reason for me to switch from something that works great for years.
yeah sure, but thats why you should try lact so you get a actual opinion on which one is better for you, not which one has been around for longer so it has more "brand recognition"
@@linuxnext When I said I didn't have much experience with it I didn't mean I haven't used it. I did for several weeks. Then I just asked myself: why?
Why does anybody need to try and find an alternative to something that works without issues for a long time? To risk to get in trouble with a newer alternative (such as instabilities or other bugs which are not uncommon in fresh and not well-tested software) just for the sake of novelty? That doesn't make much sense to me. Of course I might be missing something here.
Anyways, thank you for a perspective. I'll get back to it later, and maybe my perspective would change as well, but I am not there yet.
Great video
already baked into the kernel pretty much.
I'm havin trouble with Steam, so it wont recognize any other ssd etc other that the one with the operating system on it, got flatseal and cant figure out which Filesystem to toggle as ive tried them all one by one and steam just dosnt start up?
First you need to remount the drives with a partition manager, by default Linux will mount drives with a weird name that won't make sense for steam Flatpak, I mount my drive in /home/yourusername/Drives/Games
Then I make sure I add exec so steam can execute it properly to the fstab for the drive which is how the drives automount on boot
With something like KDE partition manager, you can change the mount then make sure in options that users can mount and unmount and don't prevent the system from booting if not mountable is ticked, then to add exec to fstab you click more.. and then type exec, ok, ok again, agree for KDE partition manager to save this to fstab
After you go back to flatseal, and add the path of where the drive is mounted, restart steam and steam should be able to see it properly
Does LACT allow you to disable ZeroRPM on RDNA3?
Title wrong. It's not about HOW to install but WHAT you could install!
i disagree :)
I Have AMD RX 580 8GO , I'm using Arch Linux KDE Plasma (Wayland) , what is the best Driver? I mainly use my PC to play games from Steam and Lutris.
amdgpu + mesa which is what you are already running probs
Please also make videos for Intel and nvidia
If I get a Intel card I will, Intel is VERY similar to AMD tho as you use mesa and kernel still for drivers
I'd really love someone to cover flatpaks. I still avoid them like the plague. Tried Nobara again. Everything is Flatpak. Can't find OBS to put in my plugins. Discord can't see what game is playing in steam for the activity feed. I've been on Linux exclusively over a year now and avoiding flatpaks still determines what distro I run.
Obs plugins only work with flatpak plugin versions for obs so when you install a plugin you install it with flatpak install or through the gui store plugins for obs studio
For discord thats because flatpak is containerized so it just cant see your processes that are running
This is where you run a mixture of flatpak and system like i do
What plugins do you use on obs?
@@linuxnext Application audio capture and audio move.
I use pop os 22.04 on an external hard drive, i have tried updating to later versions of mesa but there isn't a lot of info about it so its difficult to know if I am doing things right. I would like to be able to install the latest amd drivers on my laptop, I have amd radeon vega 8 graphics.
if you want to know what has changed check the changelogs of the mesa releases
docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes.html
one way to check what mesa version your running is by using steam, help, system information, scroll down to video card
Could you do this for Intel Arc next?
Thank you
@@simonefelici6502 Intel arc is the exact same process, the problem is the issues with ANV in mesa has graphical bugs in some games so we have to wait for newer mesa releases
If I get an Intel arc card I'll 100% do a video about it tho :)
@linuxnext Oh ok, thanks :)
Hi, I'm using debian and it seems that I can play games and I can record with av1 so do I already have these drivers or the drivers that you are introducing here are for different use ? Should I install them ? And can I have an app where I can enable like frame gen or any other amd's techno
Do this
glxinfo | grep -i mesa
Then tell me what version it is
Also what package are you using for av1 encoding? Is this on OBS? If so is it Flatpak or system version
There are a lot of little things that happen when you are using an older version of mesa + kernel on the newest GPUs, you can use the mesa and kernel that debian provides but you will experience issues with newer games at some point that will require a newer version, if your playing older games then you probs won't experience many problems if at all, then there is power issues in some games that was fixed in 6.13 and downstreamed to 6.12 so on debian you won't have that and so you may experience problems with that at somepoint, you may not be getting the maximum performance you should be getting, if your not a power user like me who wants everything to be newest and best then debian is fine for AMD but if you see problems don't be surprised
@linuxnext I'll do it this we I don't have acess to my pc now
@@linuxnext I did it but nothing, I use proton for my steam games I think mesa isn't installed
@@δηου do you have mesa-utils installed? This is required to output this in the terminal
@@linuxnext No I don't, I'll do this
Am I the only one that has poor graphics with an AMD GPU? I'm new to linux and I searched Google trying to find a good GPU recommendation for linux. I don't do any gaming, I just watch TH-cam videos and do office tasks. I decided on the AMD RX 550 2GB. It installed easily and the linux distro installed the correct drivers, but the graphics looked terrible. I searched and could never find a solution. After a few days, I removed it and installed a cheap Nvidia 710. The linux distro installed the drivers, and the graphics look so much better. The same AMD RX 550 in Windows 10 the graphics looked great. So tell me is there a way to optimize the graphics for the AMD GPUs in Linux? I just can't seem to find any info on optimizing the graphics for AMD GPUs. Sorry for the long rant.
wdym by "graphics"
@@linuxnext I don't know what this means.
@@tommygomez5343 wdym means what do you mean
So I'm asking what do you mean by graphics
@@linuxnext So my desktop has an integrated Radeon HD 4250 and the graphics look good with Linux Mint. But when I watch TH-cam videos the integrated GPU cannot keep up. So I bought an RX 550 2GB. I installed it and the graphics don't look nearly as good, but this same RX 550 2GB looks great in Windows. So I don't know if the poor graphics is an issue with Linux Mint using the Radeon Driver or the AMDGPU driver. I suspect it has something to do with that. But when I see these videos on how to setup AMd GPUs in Linux, nobody covers whether you should be using the Radeon driver or the AMGGPU drivers. How to know which one you should be using. I guess it's based on performance. I know AMD makes really good GPUs, I just can't get the one I have working like it should in Linux.
@tommygomez5343 still confused with "graphics" please explain what looks "worse" do you mean graphics by the video game graphics? Do you mean the display looks worse? also this video does say to use amdgpu as it's the default in the kernel and is what is best maintained for lots of amd gpus + mesa for graphics API compatibility for things like gaming
wallpaper sources?
you should be able to find it in the comments, iv replied to about 4 people already about it :p
LACT blocks my PC with CachyOS at startup it indicates the overdrive is activate. any solution for this issue ?
i dont experience this issue as it says overdrive is enabled for me also, i actually tried disabling it but it didnt seem to work, you can try tho by doing this
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu.conf
options amdgpu overdrive=0
ctrl-x, y and enter to save
@linuxnext Thanks for your reply. I just reinstalled it and switched the GRUB mode to rEFind.
With rEFind, I no longer see the command line appearing at the beginning of the boot. So, everything's fine, I was able to apply lactdn.I think that resolved the issue. It's been over two hours now, and everything is working great. Thanks again
you could use debian testing
Yes you could but debian testing has that name for a reason
@@linuxnext from someone using debian testing for a long time, is more stable than arch
I'm using Radeon 780m and coudn't enable hardware video enconding in OBS even with amdgpu pro driver. Although it works fine on Windows
Did you click advanced in the encoding settings? It will be VAAPI, OBS already provided vaapi for AMD and Intel
Also recommend using OBS Flatpak for it to work properly and for it to be there in the settings
On windows it uses amf while on Linux it uses vaapi encoding, you can also add some of the plugins of the other vaapi options like gstreamer vaapi
@linuxnext thank you, it works! I thought it always enabled by default
@nikitf7777 if you want the best quality you can add quality=5 to the options at the bottom of the vaapi options, this will give you the best quality that is on par with windows
@nikitf7777 if you want even better quality try out GPU screen recorder for recording or replay or simple streaming
Yo! Good video btw.
I have a request, please make a video about btrfs on arch.
I have installed it and whenever I try to restore any snapshot my / (root) gets unmounted although my system works fine.
i have searched some articles and vids but they are very advanced and I can't quite understand them so please this is a request from an arch user.
@@mihir3339 so you can boot into your system while root is unmounted?
If you want to use BTRFS I suggest you spend the time learning about it. Arch wiki has a good amount of information but I would highly suggest reading the official documentation and the OpenSUSE wiki on Snapper (the tool use to do rollbacks). In terms of your root unmounting, depending on how you set it up most likely it has to do with how you set your /etc/fstab and the subvolid of your root. Your root / in BTRFS is actually // or /@ by convention, which is just a subvolume like any other. You can run "sudo btrfs lis /" to see your subvolumes.
Hello, I am having a problem when I want to overclock, I have the 'amdgpu' drivers but I get the following error when I want to do it: "Could not write config: The file or directory does not exist (os error 2)"
PD: I'm noob.
hahaha I found the problem, I share with you the solution: sudo systemctl enable --now lactd
I'm in Linux Mint
Yes LACT tells you at the start to enable this, please read carefully when you install something like that, glad it's working now tho
@@linuxnext The tool you provide is not that well known, however it is spectacular, it works like the original AMD overclock. Thank you very much friend, I subscribe, greetings from Argentina.
Bought 7700 xt because people said amd is good on linux, couldn't set up fans. When temperature below 50C, it's going to 0 RPM, and I don't like it. The colder PC the better, so I want it to spin at least at 20% all the time.
are you on kernel 6.13?
@@linuxnext yes, 6.13
@@timkalier alright have you tried LACT? you can customise the fans that way with a curve or custom temps for each fan speed
github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
It literally didn’t tell us how to set up anything. I just told us about the program. OK start up. These two drivers went on a tangent.
You should be able to learn how to use a package manager of the distro you are using, it's not hard
how did u get a live wallpaper in kde?
aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git
in my case, amdvlk had a 30-40% better performance than radv
@@T3st_B3nch rlly? Which games and what GPU?
If this is the case I would like you to learn to log these results and put them on this website for benchmarking
flightlessmango.com/
You use mangohud + goverlay to log the fps then upload the log file to that site
Iv never seen results of where vlk is better then RADV in past 3 years of me using Linux so I'd rlly like to see these results
results like this show radv being better in about every case then vlk, vlk only starts the take the lead in some 4k tests
www.phoronix.com/review/amdvlk-radv-rx7900/2
Now: I Need Legacy AMD GPUs to Work
Debian & Fedora Installers work with Older AMD GPUs, but upon 1st Boot its a Blank Screen of Death
yeah legacy drivers is something i cant rlly help with as i dont own a gpu that old :P
someone will probs help tho in these comments hopefully
@@linuxnext Hey Keep Up the Awesome Vids Brotha!!
can you do about nvidia pls ?
yeah nvidia can be different for each distro on how you install it but at some point yeah
@@linuxnext thanks 😊😊
It's linux. Nothing is easy in linux.
lies
Gos bless mesa drivers.
А если игры плохо работают на vulkan(d9xk dxvk и так далее). А на wined3d нормально это проблема драйверов или графического чипа
Problem with the drivers and GPU + if the GPU doesn't support Vulkan 1.3 and supports a wide variety of Vulkan extensions then you'll have issues running Vulkan like dxvk, vkd3d etc
My Laptop has this issue, supports Vulkan 1.3 but majority of games don't launch properly with proton because the laptop is from 2015 and the drivers are incomplete, funny tho Vulkan isn't supported on windows with my laptop
@@linuxnext Ну у меня ноутбук acer с amd a8 7100. Как я понял там максимальная версия vulkan это 1.1
Proton-Sarek may help
Yeah you are not gonna have a fun time with that, as someone else said proton-sarek may help
github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek
But with Vulkan 1.1 you will continue to see issues until you get hardware that supports 1.3 atleast
@@linuxnext Спасибо за помощь. С модификацией proton sharek у меня теперь перестали тормозить в 5-8fps игры типо tekken 7 или batman arkham