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Native Linux games are worse than Proton for me, confirmed with several games. Also Proton in Linux performance is usually better than on Windows, I would say 75% of the time
@@kyledupont7711 The native versions are often outdated. Some are using OpenGL instead of Vulkan, which often results in terrible performance. I think a modern native version should run better than Proton but it's very hard to find one. Even a very good Linux Port like Shadow of the Tomb Raider is missing features like RayTracing, which do work in the Windows version via Proton. The simplicity Proton offers to the devs will likely not incentivise making great Linux native versions in the near future and I can't blame them.
@@LeHoax With proton, there almost isn't even a need for Linux versions anymore. I would rather have Devs focus their attention on making the windows version as Proton Compatible as possible
@@kyledupont7711 I agree. Hunt Showdown got a big engine upgrade and the patch broke Proton compatibility. The awesome devs of DXVK and Proton, fixed the issue and had a bleeding edge Proton build out the same evening. Sure, Crytek could have tested the update on Linux before releasing it but as long as developers do not actively prevent the use of Proton, Proton will adapt in no time. The fact that games like Star Citizen run under Proton despite the insane technical complexity is astonishing.
@@LeHoax Those guys are awesome I listened to a podcast with Glorious Eggroll who is very involved. I think the only sore spot right now is several indy games that just won't launch, Hell Seed and From the darkness are 2 of them. Other than that it's just amazing I didn't think I really wouldn't need Windows anymore when I switched to Linux a few months ago
It's performance varies a lot per user. For most it runs poorly. As for me, it performs with half the performance I have with windows and it crashes a lot when I alt tab from the game.
The performance is not great. Valve themselves have said that the Vulkan implementation of source 2 needs more work, currently CS2 on Linux on average runs at half performance compared to CS2 on Windows with DX11.
@uis246 Gg man. Any ressource you recommend. Like I know shit about compiler flags am an absolute beginner with make, cmake, and other compiler tools. If the default commands don't work, I'm kinda fucked. Can you tell me about your gentoo experience and where you learned the details of compiler tools?
@@poutineausyropderable7108 most of info is in gentoo handbooki. For niche optimization flags you can read "GCC Optimization Options" in GCC manual. If you feel brave, you can read gentooLTO project.
@poutineausyropderable7108 I compiled gentoo on a core 2 duo t6400 one time (2 cores, 2 threads, 2 ghz). It was my first time using gentoo. You don't really need knowledge about make, cmake, or compilers unless you're cross compiling for a weird architecture, don't worry so much. The handbook is the best guide ever made, just follow that, use the wiki and you'll be fine. When I did that I knew literally nothing about compiler flags, you just need general knowledge about the structure of a linux system and how to use a comand line. If you've installed arch before you'll be fine. Gentoo is harder, but installing arch for the first time can be more complicated simply because the install guide expects you to be already experienced with linux systems. The gentoo handbook has very good explanations for everything, just go ahead, put the iso on a USB and try it out. You'll be fine.
@@poutineausyropderable7108just installed gentoo for the first time, just followed the manual on the gentoo site. might take some debugging effort if you mess something up but that's to be expected from this kind of distro. otherwise, denshivideo and mental outlaw have good gentoo install videos you can follow. learning use flags and such will take time and effort, but isn't too hard either, same with compiling your own kernel, which is optional anyway. gl on your gentoo journey if you choose to go through with it.
watching grub break and him reinstall his entire system hurt. When grub (its a bootloader) does not find your grub config (config which says what options to boot with and where) it will default to the grub shell. from there you are able to manually boot by setting the root partition and selecting a kernel. then you can fix grub
he went to grub rescue shell, not grub shell. grub rescue shell usually happens when grub itself is broken and cannot insmod normal, a quick chroot in and grub-install usually fixes this.
Thing about arch is that its difficult to get to a state youre happy with initially but once you've gone through those hoops once you kind of get it and it becomes the easiest OS to manage in my opinion. Ymmv.
That Sounds Like NixOS to me. In the 2 years that i was on Arch on both of my main Machines Arch Always needed Manual Intervention to Just keep everything working. Not true for Fedora, neither for NixOS.
You could just typed "archinstall" and it would give a menu lmao or you could also installed easier distro, like fedora , there would be preinstalled packages and also everything would be easyer
Fair review for the most part. The only thing I dislike is the Arch usage because it makes Linux gaming more difficult than it needs to be. Other distros are available and often don't require this much tinkering. My recommendation for gaming would be Bazzite as it is almost unbreakable and comes with all the drivers and gaming software one might expect. Unfortunately there is still a huge variance on how Linux gaming goes depending on the hardware people are using. Some users have an almost flawless experience and others run into issues at every corner. What I can say is that things are currently improving rapidly. Nvidia, for example, used to be a massive pain but they finally have come around and started to properly support at least their newer graphic cards.
@@CLOYO I tend to recommend immutable distros to new users as they are very difficult to break compared to a traditional Linux distro. Personally I dislike that Arch and its derivatives are advertised to new users. I consider most of these enthusiasts distros for people who enjoy tinkering and customizing all aspects of their operating system. Valve probably used it for SteamOS because of that customizability. Convincing someone to try Linux is hard enough, and giving them a something that usually just works, like the various flavours of Fedora, Mint, or Ubuntu; makes it easier to experience more of the good aspects of Linux. There is plenty of time for them to switch to Arch later if they are curious.
Akshually 🤓☝ Arch linux is not the hardest distro, some problems are nvidia driver problems and not linux problems, and also developers can put any kind of software on linux, they just dont want to
5:42 you actually can enable background processing off vulkan shaders, and if you skip them nothing bad will happen, the game will stutter a bit every time it has to compile a shader
I get that Arch is the meem distro, but you should never use arch as a first distro, because nothing is configured out of the box on arch. When I tried elden ring on arch, at first I had maybe an average of 45 fps, but the I fucked around with kernel parameters, sysctl settings, cpu frequency governors, scheduler optimizations, better proton versions, and suddenly, I get around 80 average fps (with the unlock mod), which is more than what I had on windows. Arch will just ship you software, without ANY configuration BY DESIGN, this is literally the only reason for Arch's existence. If you have no intent of "fixing" your own system before using it, you are to blame, if you don't want to do that, don't use Arch, use on of the popular and well maintained "just works" distros. Something like linux mint, pop os, fedora or even nobara if all you care about is gaming performance
@@GraniteFaun For general stability (if you're getting lag spikes or crashes) - completely disable swap if you have some - if you can't disable swap, set vm.swappiness to a very low value such as 10 - raise your vm.max_map_count here is the contents of my /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf vm.max_map_count=2147483642 vm.swappiness=10 For better temps (on air cooling) - I use fancontrol-gui-git on the AUR to set a higher fan curve, and my temps went down 5-10 degrees on average - I needed to set the acpi_enforce_resources=lax kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable or else the sensors wouldn't work properly Graphics stuff: - For nvidia, set the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, if you have a very old card (such as GTX 700 series and before), I don't know if this works - I set it so my compositor (I use xorg) completely disables itself when I enter a fullscreen game, I use picom as my compositor, and the "unredir-if-possible = true;" config line will attempt to bypass on fullscreen apps, I even have a keyboard shortcut to manually toggle it on/off if it fails to do so automatically. This alone added like 10-20% fps and massively improved my framerate - For AMD: use gamescope. you can easily add pretty basic, but good looking upscaling to any game, which will massively boost your frame rate if you are GPU bottlenecked. Do not use with nvidia, your games will crash (as of writing this) CPU stuff: In my case, I was very heavily CPU bottlenecked, the default frequency scaling driver would sometimes refuse to clock itself over 2 or 3Ghz when playing games even though my cpu is capable of boosting to 4.5Ghz - use cpupower and cpupower-gui to set your cpu frequency ranges and scaling governors - note that if you install the gui, it will run a daemon that will set your profile to powersave on boot unless you change the config, which can be annoying because it slows down your computer massively until you manually change your profile, changing the default profile can be buggy and doesnt always work in my experience. In my case, I just gave up on the gui and I use a custom rofi menu and the cpupower cli tool with keyboard shortcuts to manually change everything - simply setting your governor to performance on all cores is enough for a big fps boost if you are CPU bottlenecked - you can also raise your minimum frequency a bit higher on all cores too - for AMD CPUs (Zen 2 or later only): change your frequency scaling driver to amd_pstate, by default it's acpi_cpufreq, which is not optimal for more recent CPUs, but definitely go back to it if you encounter issues. - set it to amd_pstate=active for maximum performance, combined with the performance governor, your CPU will run full speed pretty much all the time if you do that (not recommended if you have cooling issues) - If you want a more balanced setting: use amd_pstate=guided - If you are on a laptop, use amd_pstate=passive, unless you like having your battery fall to 0% in less than 2 hours - make sure you are monitoring your CPU temps if you are messing around with all of these settings - I don't know for intel CPUs I probably missed some stuff, lemme know if you get results
@@GraniteFaun Not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted, here's attempt number 2: For general stability (if you're getting lag spikes or crashes) - completely disable swap if you have some - if you can't disable swap, set vm.swappiness to a very low value such as 10 - raise your vm.max_map_count here is the contents of my /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf vm.max_map_count=2147483642 vm.swappiness=10 For better temps (on air cooling) - I use fancontrol-gui-git on the AUR to set a higher fan curve, and my temps went down 5-10 degrees on average - I needed to set the acpi_enforce_resources=lax kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable or else the sensors wouldn't work properly Graphics stuff: - For nvidia, set the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, if you have a very old card (such as GTX 700 series and before), I don't know if this works - I set it so my compositor (I use xorg) completely disables itself when I enter a fullscreen game, I use picom as my compositor, and the "unredir-if-possible = true;" config line will attempt to bypass on fullscreen apps, I even have a keyboard shortcut to manually toggle it on/off if it fails to do so automatically. This alone added like 10-20% fps and massively improved my framerate - For AMD: use gamescope. you can easily add pretty basic, but good looking upscaling to any game, which will massively boost your frame rate if you are GPU bottlenecked. Do not use with nvidia, your games will crash (as of writing this) CPU stuff: In my case, I was very heavily CPU bottlenecked, the default frequency scaling driver would sometimes refuse to clock itself over 2 or 3Ghz when playing games even though my cpu is capable of boosting to 4.5Ghz - use cpupower and cpupower-gui to set your cpu frequency ranges and scaling governors - note that if you install the gui, it will run a daemon that will set your profile to powersave on boot unless you change the config, which can be annoying because it slows down your computer massively until you manually change your profile, changing the default profile can be buggy and doesnt always work in my experience. In my case, I just gave up on the gui and I use a custom rofi menu and the cpupower cli tool with keyboard shortcuts to manually change everything - simply setting your governor to performance on all cores is enough for a big fps boost if you are CPU bottlenecked - you can also raise your minimum frequency a bit higher on all cores too - for AMD CPUs (Zen 2 or later only): change your frequency scaling driver to amd_pstate, by default it's acpi_cpufreq, which is not optimal for more recent CPUs, but definitely go back to it if you encounter issues. - set it to amd_pstate=active for maximum performance, combined with the performance governor, your CPU will run full speed pretty much all the time if you do that (not recommended if you have cooling issues) - If you want a more balanced setting: use amd_pstate=guided - If you are on a laptop, use amd_pstate=passive, unless you like having your battery fall to 0% in less than 2 hours - make sure you are monitoring your CPU temps if you are messing around with these settings - I don't know for intel CPUs I probably missed some stuff, lemme know if you get results
@@GraniteFaun welp, youtube keeps deleting my big wall of text with all my configs, no idea why. If you're still interested, 4UPktL1z is the id of the pastebin (can't post links here)
@@GraniteFaun attempt number 1 billion at posting my comment without it mysteriously disappearing (i'm really trying to give you my configs right now).
4:57 ‐ 5:27 - insane yapping right here: >Cross-platform is a scam Vulcan can run on Linux, Windows, MacOS, *BSD, Raspberry Pi, Tizen and much more, saying it's a scam is CRAZY >Hard to mantain Most gamedevs use already existing engines like Unreal, Unity or Godot. Linux support can be turned on with, like, one button, the devs are just THAT lazy. >Most gamers use Windows K, this one is true >Performance It's depends on the devs, akshually, for example Doom Eternal runs better on Vulcan than DirectX >Networking Linux have excellent network stack, all the servers run on it anyways, multiplayer is pain regardless >Anti-cheats EAC supports Linux, game devs are at fault again
@@EmiliaHoarfrost Or they don't want to bother supporting many different distros with different kernel versions, desktop compositors (or whatever they're called), audio libs, etc.
@@deadsource yeah, the windows api is way more stable and just using proton is the best way, if it weren't for the steam linux runtime which is a way to have stable linux libraries (though there does need to be a better solution when outside of steam)
Saying it's lazy is ignorant. If you deploy for a platform, you are also responsible for that platform. Debugging issues on that platform. It's much more work than just "too lazy to hit a button"
@@richmondrobinson3259boost to this, the support of Linux is more complicated due to drivers and other system level stuff, its not harder than Windows, with Proton its actually probably easier than Windows, but supporting Windows is hard, and there arent enough Linux users YET to make the effort worth it. but we are getting there, our numbers are growing, join us and they will have to listen, we are Linux, we are Legion... we are Legiux
To recap... for many games, Linux provides a /better/ gaming experience for many, if not most, games - and sometimes (oftentimes?) it takes some work to tailor Linux for that optimal experience. For old games... it's now often the more convenient option. YMMV.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
If you compare a house with a Linux distribution. Then Linux is the foundation, GNU is the supports, and something like arch is the walls and utilities. The desktop managers are the furniture and paint. This is the best analogy I could come up with.
The worst part of arch is you need to set everything up. The best part of arch is that you have a great wiki when you set everything up or when something breaks. The best part of mainstream distros is you don't need to set everything up. The worst part of mainstream distros is that you don't have a great wiki if something breaks.
@@LabiaLicker lmao, Manjaro is literally the worst of _both_ worlds. It's like you took Arch then ruined what was good about it by giving it all weaknesses of "out-of-the-box" distros.
That's why you make shell scripts to automate the deploy and management of your system, the arch wiki states that if you do not like DIY distros, probally a distro like fedora or nobara should be better.
Grub will break all the time, it's a quick fix. Your regular file system won't. Imo, You should have somewhere on your file system a list of every command you do to install arch, and the frequent repairs. Best case scenario: Go to arch install iso live environment. Mount the / and /boot Arch-chroot into /mnt sudo (reinstall grub) sudo grub-mkconfig ... Sudo update-grub jobs Exit (jobs is so exit works) Unmount Reboot Should just work (hopefully). If not sudo rm -rf /boot/* sudo pacman -S linux linux-firmware Amd/intel-ucode grub config command Grub update. jobs Exit Unmount Reboot Or dometimes, reinstall grub itself and update its config. Imo, I use Refind for my boot manager. Then I boot into windows or grub. But you could setup for systemd boot and bypass grub.
Great video! Had some great laughs. My personal experience wasn't nearly as bad as yours, but I pretty much play almost exclusively through Steam (with the exception of a few MMOs), so everyone's mileage may vary (also hardware dependent, but getting much more even as time goes by).
It’s good to install Linux the hard way as it teaches you a little on how to reconfigure your system if you change anything, like adding or changing drives
I hope you read this you sound like an algerian u have the exact same internet speed as mine and u have the classic chinese twin controller that is popular in small towns of algeria
Arch has a version of the iso that ships with an install script that gives you a GUI to install the OS. Its essentially the same as installing windows now.
Most people who use arch, including me, who doesn't use arch, say that it goes against the purpose of arch. If you want a comfy GUI based installer, go with a different arch-based distro.
@@CuteSkyler"arch install script goes against the purpose of arch, use arch install script but with a different name" do you realize how stupid this sounds?
@@CuteSkyler literally no one except gatekeepers care. Don't listen to gateekeepers. Many other long-time linux users (including me) absolutely hate them.
Arch being the hardest system to install is such a lie - i can install it in a reasonable amount of time (no I don't archinstall, as it's cooler and more fun to install it manually before any arch user comments abt it) i think the hardest os that i know of is gentoo, when i tried installing it (with the handbook) i failed
i want btrfs with timeshift. maybe next install i want btrfs with timeshift AND encryption. too much work to manual install (i did that for my debian server because i wanted debian stable) - but for "Arch" i just took the EndeavourOS installer.
@@realPlerby It's a filesystem, one of the most advanced ones. Supports snapshots, subvolumes, deduplication, compression, RAID, etc. ext4 is the most common filesystem, because it's the most mature, but also doesn't have the advanced features of btrfs, or the speed of XFS.
@@TopiasSalakka btrfs has a pretty bad track record. And I don't hear people talk much about XFS these days. The filesystems that are most popular is ext4 for regular desktop use and then ZFS for everything else. I'm really looking forward to using bcachefs in the future when it has more oven time.
Strictly speaking, Linux From Scratch is the hardest to install, but once you install it and then add a package manager. And you basically just have Gentoo at that point.
If you haven't done it already, make a separate partition for root and home. That way if you borke the system reinstalling is very easy. Also, do not use NTFS. The support in Linux is jacking. If you must share with Windows I'd recommend exFAT, since in my experience is more reliable on Linux.
the payday 2 linux version was abandoned by the devs long ago, judging by the use of OpenGL, it seems like you were running that version, you would most likely have had a better and more updated experience if you had used the windows version with proton i also suspect your OpenGL green flashing issue is an arch configuration or Nvidia Driver issue, another distro which isn't "RTFM and DIY" like PopOS or Nobara would probably not have that issue
Personally, i started using Linux (arch btw) on my crappy laptop to play mincraft, and I am now able to plat at 90fps with better battery life, compared to max 20 on windows. And it showed better performance in others game ( in smaller measures ) So i think its worth giving it a try if you have a potato pc but if you already have a decent one there's no point.
Ummm, just some food for thought: Maybe if you make a video about committing to Linux for gaming, maybe also use a Linux native filesystem? What was wrong with BTRFS, ext4 or even XFS? Also, a trained animal can install Arch. Its literally just following the step by step tutorial in the wiki, no script required.
For newcomers it's not that easy as someone doing it multiple times, you often want to look for a tutorial or the documentation but a script can help a lot
Usually such low performance means using the wrong driver. I've seen some people on nvidia use the incorrect drivers, nvidia-open or the out of the box nouveou drivers which both suck. You usually need to use the `nvidia` package
Bro this video so good lmao. I've been a Windows user my whole life and for 2 years I was using MacOS, I learned a lot about Unix systems but I decided to buy a new gaming PC, I thought I would be ready to migrate to Linux but maybe not lol at least as a daily driver, I don't want to leave a lot of performance on the table (I mean, It's an i9 14900k with a 4090 OC and I want to squeeze every drop out of them). I think I'll still try to configure Arch through a VM however, or try Asahi Linux on the Mac just for fun.
Disable steam shader prechashe, you don't need it anymore. That error was easy to fix, you didn't have to install arch one more time. Install all the packages for your driver and vulkan. Use gamemode %command% after you install gamemode.
Windows 10 will possibly be the LAST version of Windows I use I've tested gaming on Garuda Linux and is catching up with Windows pretty fast but be careful most games that were meant for Windows will not directly work it's better to still use Windows for gaming but most games I've seen have been working better on Linux than on Windows. It's mainly the developers fault if they don't allow a Linux option on most games which I think Valve might be doing in the near future thanks to the Steam Deck which SteamOS is based on Arch Linux btw.
GNU/Linux ... no... Linux can (and does) use alternate toolchains. Suck it, Richard... Linus "practically" enabled Libre software development (we have to mention GIT here) in a way that greatly outshines GNU contributions (outside the GPLv2).
Your graphical issues happen consistantly when using OpenGL API. That problem might be specific to whatever user-space driver you're using. You may want to try your luck with using the Zink driver - it's OpenGL driver that's part of the Mesa project that runs on top of Vulkan API.
I have played games like Baldurs Gate 3, No man sky, Fallout 4, RDR2, Starfield, Witcher 3, Dvinity original sin 2 on Garuda (arch based) and Tumbleweed. all on Ultra for a year now. and not have had these problems you seem to have. Just installed them on Heroic games (For GOG) and Steam without any tinkering. Although the NVME thing did happen on Arch all of sudden (why I moved to Opensuse Tumbleweed) though Vulcan did crash the BG3 on arch too, so I have been using directx instead. I guess I am just lucky.
Hardest Linux distros are Gentoo and void cause you have to build them yourself and any program that they don't have in their package system and they are quite limited in packages
What i found out on arch: ive managed to skip a lot of tinkering for gaming by using the flatpak version which seems to come with a lot of tweaks. Also as someone else already said, with popOS you get a pretty good experience, pretty recent packages and gaming peformance already. Using pop on one gaming laptop but arch on all the ret. Also id reccommend timeshift backups, this can save your system pretty well. But when you learned with arch, a lot of knowledge transfers to other distros.
i forgot when you install arch with archinstall you must pick grub and btrfs or snapper wont work, ask gpt how to set up snapper, its a cli tool to automate snapshots and put those entries in grub, but you do need to set it up and update grupb and the ramfs, snapshots in the grub menu are a blessing , you cant brick your os short of the drive having a failure, all system files are stored separate ly from the ones you use ensuring you have stable fallbacks, and install the kernel you want and the linux-lts for a fallback you never know when a new kernel update will brick a rolling release so prepare my man i love arch, and get a spare drive too
Or if you like arch but also like actually good distros install CachyOS. Arch with stuff actually set up, optimized kernel, optimized packages, wrappers for advanced tools and metapackages 🔥 (I'm the biggest fan of CachyOS, would sacrifice my firstborn to the devs)
My experience trying to game on Linux was terrible and last for less then 2 days , with me giving up on Linux pretty much on the first day of using it, wine didn't work for all the games I wanted to play. Also one of them need easy anti cheat for it to run wich doesn't work on linux
I disagree with the point that Arch is hard to install. Really you just need to be able to read documentation to install it. The hard part is not breaking it by accident 8) (and resisting the urge to tell everyone you use arch btw)
I just find it funny that people think GNU/Linux is ready for the general gamer public. As long it isn't a walled off garden, the user will always find a way to screw something up, from the DE to the bootloader. Not everyone has the time/mood to fix their installation, reinstall nvidia drivers etc when they get home from work and want to turn off for a bit. I know it's less a fault of linux, more fault of greedy corpos but until that issue has been tackled, the "year of Linux" will not come come. Remember, you're trying to appeal to a demographic capable of messing up msconfig for more fps.
I want to abandon Windows. Almost all games that I play have native support, but the problem is one game: DESTINY 2 Bungie refuses to let Linux users play the game, the ant cheat doesn't work on Linux, and if you find a Workaround, you get instantly banned. I hate Bungie.
or, specifically in source games (mostly), you can add "%command% -high" etc. into the game's launch options, it pretty much does the same thing as gamemode would do, but only for source games
Bro i am sorry but why i feel like you copying Martincitopants completely in everything? The way you talk and the music and even the clothes, i just can’t ignore it
Been using NixOS myself, got a mostly working custom configuration, and it's really easy to update or make changes to my system, provided I look at the documentation. Beats maintaining a bash script that can get increasingly messier and that could easily become outdated with a new distro release. I tried Arch, and it's not for me (Only good option if you have an NVIDIA GPU though), and I like Fedora, but the bash script problem forced me to abandon it.
Honestly I don't understand how so many people get so many errors on Linux, probably something to do with Nvidia, never had an Nvidia card. Still, even tho I almost never have weird issues like these in gaming, I still dual boot windows (I sold my soul to League of Legends)
I had issues with BF1 installing it from Lutris. I solved it installing Bottles, a compatibility tool to run Windows apps. This tool has preset environments for different apps (EA f'ng app included) and you just have to run it and install your EA games. Now, for me, it works even better than on native Windows.
for a gaming experience, ubuntu for as much as people rag on it nowadays, when users go on saying it went "microsoft" and "bloated", it's a pretty alright 'out of the box' gaming experience, popOS are specially good if you have nvidia graphics, it comes with nvidia graphics out of the box too and it's a much much simpler system to mess with
You never truly installed Arch if you used Archinstall. It's like a automatic in a car race. You WANT the controll if you use arch, at that point you might as well use Ubuntu fork.
My experience with Linux is straight up bad lmao. I tried many distros and it always ended up crashing because Nvidia old GPU moment. So fun. I do wish I could use linux but I guess not.
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First. great video dude
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@@spYf08 😂😭
Don't blame Proton for the shit performance of CS2. It's a native Linux game, just one with a bad Vulkan implementation.
Native Linux games are worse than Proton for me, confirmed with several games. Also Proton in Linux performance is usually better than on Windows, I would say 75% of the time
@@kyledupont7711 The native versions are often outdated. Some are using OpenGL instead of Vulkan, which often results in terrible performance. I think a modern native version should run better than Proton but it's very hard to find one. Even a very good Linux Port like Shadow of the Tomb Raider is missing features like RayTracing, which do work in the Windows version via Proton. The simplicity Proton offers to the devs will likely not incentivise making great Linux native versions in the near future and I can't blame them.
@@LeHoax With proton, there almost isn't even a need for Linux versions anymore. I would rather have Devs focus their attention on making the windows version as Proton Compatible as possible
@@kyledupont7711 I agree.
Hunt Showdown got a big engine upgrade and the patch broke Proton compatibility. The awesome devs of DXVK and Proton, fixed the issue and had a bleeding edge Proton build out the same evening. Sure, Crytek could have tested the update on Linux before releasing it but as long as developers do not actively prevent the use of Proton, Proton will adapt in no time.
The fact that games like Star Citizen run under Proton despite the insane technical complexity is astonishing.
@@LeHoax Those guys are awesome I listened to a podcast with Glorious Eggroll who is very involved. I think the only sore spot right now is several indy games that just won't launch, Hell Seed and From the darkness are 2 of them. Other than that it's just amazing I didn't think I really wouldn't need Windows anymore when I switched to Linux a few months ago
CS2 Works Natively on Linux, and the performance was great when I tried it. You don't need proton.
Same here
Yeah, I'm not sure what happened with his game.
Maybe just don't use arch as your first distro... Use Linux Mint or PopOS.
for some reason cs2 crashes for me everytime i launch the game
It's performance varies a lot per user. For most it runs poorly. As for me, it performs with half the performance I have with windows and it crashes a lot when I alt tab from the game.
The performance is not great. Valve themselves have said that the Vulkan implementation of source 2 needs more work, currently CS2 on Linux on average runs at half performance compared to CS2 on Windows with DX11.
I still find it hilarious when people say Arch is the hardest distro, Gentoo would like a word :p
what about lfs ?
@@YusufKhalifadev We should start hyping it up as the "the one true linux!" to see how many people bite and try to install it, xD
Gentoo is easy
@@uis246 how long did it take to compile your web browser
Arch is more popular on TH-cam and it's why U clicked on the video it won't be as popular if it were a Gentoo video
you’re like tech martincitopants
The jokes. The editing. The music. It’s almost uncanny
fr, like code bullet too
Gentoo. Linux From scratch. Creating your own distro.
Those are harder then Arch.
Gentoo is easy
@uis246 Gg man. Any ressource you recommend.
Like I know shit about compiler flags am an absolute beginner with make, cmake, and other compiler tools. If the default commands don't work, I'm kinda fucked.
Can you tell me about your gentoo experience and where you learned the details of compiler tools?
@@poutineausyropderable7108 most of info is in gentoo handbooki. For niche optimization flags you can read "GCC Optimization Options" in GCC manual. If you feel brave, you can read gentooLTO project.
@poutineausyropderable7108 I compiled gentoo on a core 2 duo t6400 one time (2 cores, 2 threads, 2 ghz). It was my first time using gentoo.
You don't really need knowledge about make, cmake, or compilers unless you're cross compiling for a weird architecture, don't worry so much.
The handbook is the best guide ever made, just follow that, use the wiki and you'll be fine. When I did that I knew literally nothing about compiler flags, you just need general knowledge about the structure of a linux system and how to use a comand line.
If you've installed arch before you'll be fine. Gentoo is harder, but installing arch for the first time can be more complicated simply because the install guide expects you to be already experienced with linux systems. The gentoo handbook has very good explanations for everything, just go ahead, put the iso on a USB and try it out. You'll be fine.
@@poutineausyropderable7108just installed gentoo for the first time, just followed the manual on the gentoo site. might take some debugging effort if you mess something up but that's to be expected from this kind of distro. otherwise, denshivideo and mental outlaw have good gentoo install videos you can follow. learning use flags and such will take time and effort, but isn't too hard either, same with compiling your own kernel, which is optional anyway. gl on your gentoo journey if you choose to go through with it.
watching grub break and him reinstall his entire system hurt. When grub (its a bootloader) does not find your grub config (config which says what options to boot with and where) it will default to the grub shell.
from there you are able to manually boot by setting the root partition and selecting a kernel.
then you can fix grub
skill ijue 😔
You can also start the live image again and chroot the root and fix it from there.
he went to grub rescue shell, not grub shell. grub rescue shell usually happens when grub itself is broken and cannot insmod normal, a quick chroot in and grub-install usually fixes this.
Thing about arch is that its difficult to get to a state youre happy with initially but once you've gone through those hoops once you kind of get it and it becomes the easiest OS to manage in my opinion. Ymmv.
Average Arch-user slander.
That Sounds Like NixOS to me. In the 2 years that i was on Arch on both of my main Machines Arch Always needed Manual Intervention to Just keep everything working. Not true for Fedora, neither for NixOS.
guys stop bullying me i went through the manual frogor how many times and i ain't doing that for a temp system
No.
Yes.
"OH you like arch? Name every single package"
@@SpiderUnderUrBed_Altisn't that the old meme that was popularized at 2022?
You could just typed "archinstall" and it would give a menu lmao or you could also installed easier distro, like fedora , there would be preinstalled packages and also everything would be easyer
Fair review for the most part. The only thing I dislike is the Arch usage because it makes Linux gaming more difficult than it needs to be. Other distros are available and often don't require this much tinkering. My recommendation for gaming would be Bazzite as it is almost unbreakable and comes with all the drivers and gaming software one might expect. Unfortunately there is still a huge variance on how Linux gaming goes depending on the hardware people are using. Some users have an almost flawless experience and others run into issues at every corner. What I can say is that things are currently improving rapidly. Nvidia, for example, used to be a massive pain but they finally have come around and started to properly support at least their newer graphic cards.
Plus one to Bazzite, been a great experience for my system, been using it for six months.
Also would like to see you try bazzite!
One distro: CachyOS. Easy af.
@@CLOYO I tend to recommend immutable distros to new users as they are very difficult to break compared to a traditional Linux distro. Personally I dislike that Arch and its derivatives are advertised to new users. I consider most of these enthusiasts distros for people who enjoy tinkering and customizing all aspects of their operating system. Valve probably used it for SteamOS because of that customizability. Convincing someone to try Linux is hard enough, and giving them a something that usually just works, like the various flavours of Fedora, Mint, or Ubuntu; makes it easier to experience more of the good aspects of Linux. There is plenty of time for them to switch to Arch later if they are curious.
@@CLOYOhell yeah fellow cachyos user let's goooo, 2024 year of CachyOS desktop
Akshually 🤓☝ Arch linux is not the hardest distro, some problems are nvidia driver problems and not linux problems, and also developers can put any kind of software on linux, they just dont want to
5:42 you actually can enable background processing off vulkan shaders, and if you skip them nothing bad will happen, the game will stutter a bit every time it has to compile a shader
instructions unclear, got -5fps
@@theunrealtarik Probally because you not gave enough time to the game compile shaders in real time, just wait a bit.
I get that Arch is the meem distro, but you should never use arch as a first distro, because nothing is configured out of the box on arch. When I tried elden ring on arch, at first I had maybe an average of 45 fps, but the I fucked around with kernel parameters, sysctl settings, cpu frequency governors, scheduler optimizations, better proton versions, and suddenly, I get around 80 average fps (with the unlock mod), which is more than what I had on windows. Arch will just ship you software, without ANY configuration BY DESIGN, this is literally the only reason for Arch's existence. If you have no intent of "fixing" your own system before using it, you are to blame, if you don't want to do that, don't use Arch, use on of the popular and well maintained "just works" distros. Something like linux mint, pop os, fedora or even nobara if all you care about is gaming performance
How did you achieve such a performance boost?! Tell me your secrets
@@GraniteFaun
For general stability (if you're getting lag spikes or crashes)
- completely disable swap if you have some
- if you can't disable swap, set vm.swappiness to a very low value such as 10
- raise your vm.max_map_count
here is the contents of my /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf
vm.max_map_count=2147483642
vm.swappiness=10
For better temps (on air cooling)
- I use fancontrol-gui-git on the AUR to set a higher fan curve, and my temps went down 5-10 degrees on average
- I needed to set the acpi_enforce_resources=lax kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable or else the sensors wouldn't work properly
Graphics stuff:
- For nvidia, set the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, if you have a very old card (such as GTX 700 series and before), I don't know if this works
- I set it so my compositor (I use xorg) completely disables itself when I enter a fullscreen game, I use picom as my compositor, and the "unredir-if-possible = true;" config line will attempt to bypass on fullscreen apps, I even have a keyboard shortcut to manually toggle it on/off if it fails to do so automatically. This alone added like 10-20% fps and massively improved my framerate
- For AMD: use gamescope. you can easily add pretty basic, but good looking upscaling to any game, which will massively boost your frame rate if you are GPU bottlenecked. Do not use with nvidia, your games will crash (as of writing this)
CPU stuff:
In my case, I was very heavily CPU bottlenecked, the default frequency scaling driver would sometimes refuse to clock itself over 2 or 3Ghz when playing games even though my cpu is capable of boosting to 4.5Ghz
- use cpupower and cpupower-gui to set your cpu frequency ranges and scaling governors
- note that if you install the gui, it will run a daemon that will set your profile to powersave on boot unless you change the config, which can be annoying because it slows down your computer massively until you manually change your profile, changing the default profile can be buggy and doesnt always work in my experience. In my case, I just gave up on the gui and I use a custom rofi menu and the cpupower cli tool with keyboard shortcuts to manually change everything
- simply setting your governor to performance on all cores is enough for a big fps boost if you are CPU bottlenecked
- you can also raise your minimum frequency a bit higher on all cores too
- for AMD CPUs (Zen 2 or later only): change your frequency scaling driver to amd_pstate, by default it's acpi_cpufreq, which is not optimal for more recent CPUs, but definitely go back to it if you encounter issues.
- set it to amd_pstate=active for maximum performance, combined with the performance governor, your CPU will run full speed pretty much all the time if you do that (not recommended if you have cooling issues)
- If you want a more balanced setting: use amd_pstate=guided
- If you are on a laptop, use amd_pstate=passive, unless you like having your battery fall to 0% in less than 2 hours
- make sure you are monitoring your CPU temps if you are messing around with all of these settings
- I don't know for intel CPUs
I probably missed some stuff, lemme know if you get results
@@GraniteFaun Not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted, here's attempt number 2:
For general stability (if you're getting lag spikes or crashes)
- completely disable swap if you have some
- if you can't disable swap, set vm.swappiness to a very low value such as 10
- raise your vm.max_map_count
here is the contents of my /etc/sysctl.d/90-override.conf
vm.max_map_count=2147483642
vm.swappiness=10
For better temps (on air cooling)
- I use fancontrol-gui-git on the AUR to set a higher fan curve, and my temps went down 5-10 degrees on average
- I needed to set the acpi_enforce_resources=lax kernel parameter in /etc/default/grub in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable or else the sensors wouldn't work properly
Graphics stuff:
- For nvidia, set the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, if you have a very old card (such as GTX 700 series and before), I don't know if this works
- I set it so my compositor (I use xorg) completely disables itself when I enter a fullscreen game, I use picom as my compositor, and the "unredir-if-possible = true;" config line will attempt to bypass on fullscreen apps, I even have a keyboard shortcut to manually toggle it on/off if it fails to do so automatically. This alone added like 10-20% fps and massively improved my framerate
- For AMD: use gamescope. you can easily add pretty basic, but good looking upscaling to any game, which will massively boost your frame rate if you are GPU bottlenecked. Do not use with nvidia, your games will crash (as of writing this)
CPU stuff:
In my case, I was very heavily CPU bottlenecked, the default frequency scaling driver would sometimes refuse to clock itself over 2 or 3Ghz when playing games even though my cpu is capable of boosting to 4.5Ghz
- use cpupower and cpupower-gui to set your cpu frequency ranges and scaling governors
- note that if you install the gui, it will run a daemon that will set your profile to powersave on boot unless you change the config, which can be annoying because it slows down your computer massively until you manually change your profile, changing the default profile can be buggy and doesnt always work in my experience. In my case, I just gave up on the gui and I use a custom rofi menu and the cpupower cli tool with keyboard shortcuts to manually change everything
- simply setting your governor to performance on all cores is enough for a big fps boost if you are CPU bottlenecked
- you can also raise your minimum frequency a bit higher on all cores too
- for AMD CPUs (Zen 2 or later only): change your frequency scaling driver to amd_pstate, by default it's acpi_cpufreq, which is not optimal for more recent CPUs, but definitely go back to it if you encounter issues.
- set it to amd_pstate=active for maximum performance, combined with the performance governor, your CPU will run full speed pretty much all the time if you do that (not recommended if you have cooling issues)
- If you want a more balanced setting: use amd_pstate=guided
- If you are on a laptop, use amd_pstate=passive, unless you like having your battery fall to 0% in less than 2 hours
- make sure you are monitoring your CPU temps if you are messing around with these settings
- I don't know for intel CPUs
I probably missed some stuff, lemme know if you get results
@@GraniteFaun welp, youtube keeps deleting my big wall of text with all my configs, no idea why. If you're still interested, 4UPktL1z is the id of the pastebin (can't post links here)
@@GraniteFaun attempt number 1 billion at posting my comment without it mysteriously disappearing (i'm really trying to give you my configs right now).
4:57 ‐ 5:27 - insane yapping right here:
>Cross-platform is a scam
Vulcan can run on Linux, Windows, MacOS, *BSD, Raspberry Pi, Tizen and much more, saying it's a scam is CRAZY
>Hard to mantain
Most gamedevs use already existing engines like Unreal, Unity or Godot. Linux support can be turned on with, like, one button, the devs are just THAT lazy.
>Most gamers use Windows
K, this one is true
>Performance
It's depends on the devs, akshually, for example Doom Eternal runs better on Vulcan than DirectX
>Networking
Linux have excellent network stack, all the servers run on it anyways, multiplayer is pain regardless
>Anti-cheats
EAC supports Linux, game devs are at fault again
I don't know if that's about laziness on the part of game developers. Maybe it's companies wanting to use intrusive anti-cheat at kernel level code.
@@EmiliaHoarfrost Or they don't want to bother supporting many different distros with different kernel versions, desktop compositors (or whatever they're called), audio libs, etc.
@@deadsource yeah, the windows api is way more stable and just using proton is the best way, if it weren't for the steam linux runtime which is a way to have stable linux libraries (though there does need to be a better solution when outside of steam)
Saying it's lazy is ignorant. If you deploy for a platform, you are also responsible for that platform. Debugging issues on that platform. It's much more work than just "too lazy to hit a button"
@@richmondrobinson3259boost to this, the support of Linux is more complicated due to drivers and other system level stuff, its not harder than Windows, with Proton its actually probably easier than Windows, but supporting Windows is hard, and there arent enough Linux users YET to make the effort worth it.
but we are getting there, our numbers are growing, join us and they will have to listen, we are Linux, we are Legion... we are Legiux
To recap... for many games, Linux provides a /better/ gaming experience for many, if not most, games - and sometimes (oftentimes?) it takes some work to tailor Linux for that optimal experience. For old games... it's now often the more convenient option. YMMV.
Great vid man enjoyed watching it.
Also congrats on working with a big sponsor like brilliant. i am happy for u m8
heads up when ur install nukes itself. You can install linux without reformating your home directory so that you still have steam/games/passwords/etc.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I have psycho-Halucinations de ja vu moment
Alpine exists
@@theunsignedtarik fsf shill
If you compare a house with a Linux distribution. Then Linux is the foundation, GNU is the supports, and something like arch is the walls and utilities. The desktop managers are the furniture and paint. This is the best analogy I could come up with.
arch linux users be like
The worst part of arch is you need to set everything up. The best part of arch is that you have a great wiki when you set everything up or when something breaks.
The best part of mainstream distros is you don't need to set everything up. The worst part of mainstream distros is that you don't have a great wiki if something breaks.
I guess Manjaro is a solution to this. Its based off arch so
@@LabiaLicker lmao, Manjaro is literally the worst of _both_ worlds. It's like you took Arch then ruined what was good about it by giving it all weaknesses of "out-of-the-box" distros.
@@heinrichagrippa5681 Yeah idk. I've never used it before because I run Gentoo (6ft Chad).
That's why you make shell scripts to automate the deploy and management of your system, the arch wiki states that if you do not like DIY distros, probally a distro like fedora or nobara should be better.
That was one of the greatest Brilliant Ads I have seen since ever. Absolutely brilliantly done 🎉
Brooo good shit. Loved the editing! We need someone like you in this space
Grub will break all the time, it's a quick fix. Your regular file system won't.
Imo, You should have somewhere on your file system a list of every command you do to install arch, and the frequent repairs.
Best case scenario:
Go to arch install iso live environment.
Mount the / and /boot
Arch-chroot into /mnt
sudo (reinstall grub)
sudo grub-mkconfig ...
Sudo update-grub
jobs
Exit (jobs is so exit works)
Unmount
Reboot
Should just work (hopefully).
If not
sudo rm -rf /boot/*
sudo pacman -S linux linux-firmware Amd/intel-ucode
grub config command
Grub update.
jobs
Exit
Unmount
Reboot
Or dometimes, reinstall grub itself and update its config.
Imo, I use Refind for my boot manager. Then I boot into windows or grub. But you could setup for systemd boot and bypass grub.
idk why doesnt archinstall use systemd-boot by default
@@luisortega8085 IIRC it does. Or at least marks it as "recommended".
ah yes, the archi linux experience
@TheCommunistRabbit No. That's a windows dual boot issue.
Windows update likes to corrupt fat32 partitions.
lol. lmao even. do arch users really do this kek
0:18 bro aint wrong about that
i love how at the beginning everything looks fine but it gets worse than the bsod randomly.
Great video! Had some great laughs. My personal experience wasn't nearly as bad as yours, but I pretty much play almost exclusively through Steam (with the exception of a few MMOs), so everyone's mileage may vary (also hardware dependent, but getting much more even as time goes by).
It’s good to install Linux the hard way as it teaches you a little on how to reconfigure your system if you change anything, like adding or changing drives
I hope you read this you sound like an algerian
u have the exact same internet speed as mine
and u have the classic chinese twin controller that is popular in small towns of algeria
1:33 well that's interesting
Moral of the story: _"just dual boot for god's sake"_
- George Bush (you guess)
9:46 some say when you beat Celeste you find your true self
Arch has a version of the iso that ships with an install script that gives you a GUI to install the OS. Its essentially the same as installing windows now.
Most people who use arch, including me, who doesn't use arch, say that it goes against the purpose of arch. If you want a comfy GUI based installer, go with a different arch-based distro.
@@CuteSkyler"arch install script goes against the purpose of arch, use arch install script but with a different name" do you realize how stupid this sounds?
@@CuteSkyler literally no one except gatekeepers care. Don't listen to gateekeepers. Many other long-time linux users (including me) absolutely hate them.
@@ADarnSmore Of vanilla arch, you entirely knew what I meant.
@naterest5033 Gatekeepers keep a community pure.
@@CuteSkyler no they don't gatekeepers are just annoying
Arch being the hardest system to install is such a lie - i can install it in a reasonable amount of time (no I don't archinstall, as it's cooler and more fun to install it manually before any arch user comments abt it)
i think the hardest os that i know of is gentoo, when i tried installing it (with the handbook) i failed
i want btrfs with timeshift. maybe next install i want btrfs with timeshift AND encryption. too much work to manual install (i did that for my debian server because i wanted debian stable) - but for "Arch" i just took the EndeavourOS installer.
@@Henry-sv3wv what ks btrfs I'm kinda new to linux, I've only been using it for like 3 months
@@realPlerby It's a filesystem, one of the most advanced ones. Supports snapshots, subvolumes, deduplication, compression, RAID, etc.
ext4 is the most common filesystem, because it's the most mature, but also doesn't have the advanced features of btrfs, or the speed of XFS.
@@TopiasSalakka btrfs has a pretty bad track record. And I don't hear people talk much about XFS these days.
The filesystems that are most popular is ext4 for regular desktop use and then ZFS for everything else. I'm really looking forward to using bcachefs in the future when it has more oven time.
Strictly speaking, Linux From Scratch is the hardest to install, but once you install it and then add a package manager. And you basically just have Gentoo at that point.
I use Arch BTW.
Bro what???
We'll soon all use arch, btw
these "but" moments got me
Both entertained and educated, more videos like this needed, rather then just people judging in comments -_-
Those "but" moments xD
Happy Manjaro user and gamer for 6 years now and right now i dont have any issues you had 😁 maybe make your first steps on a easier Distro 😉
If you haven't done it already, make a separate partition for root and home. That way if you borke the system reinstalling is very easy. Also, do not use NTFS. The support in Linux is jacking. If you must share with Windows I'd recommend exFAT, since in my experience is more reliable on Linux.
the payday 2 linux version was abandoned by the devs long ago, judging by the use of OpenGL, it seems like you were running that version, you would most likely have had a better and more updated experience if you had used the windows version with proton
i also suspect your OpenGL green flashing issue is an arch configuration or Nvidia Driver issue, another distro which isn't "RTFM and DIY" like PopOS or Nobara would probably not have that issue
Personally, i started using Linux (arch btw) on my crappy laptop to play mincraft, and I am now able to plat at 90fps with better battery life, compared to max 20 on windows.
And it showed better performance in others game ( in smaller measures )
So i think its worth giving it a try if you have a potato pc but if you already have a decent one there's no point.
I have a decent pc and it's actually pretty good for linux it's customizable and fast (zen kernel) or should I say its better
Ummm, just some food for thought: Maybe if you make a video about committing to Linux for gaming, maybe also use a Linux native filesystem?
What was wrong with BTRFS, ext4 or even XFS? Also, a trained animal can install Arch. Its literally just following the step by step tutorial in the wiki, no script required.
For newcomers it's not that easy as someone doing it multiple times, you often want to look for a tutorial or the documentation but a script can help a lot
Usually such low performance means using the wrong driver. I've seen some people on nvidia use the incorrect drivers, nvidia-open or the out of the box nouveou drivers which both suck. You usually need to use the `nvidia` package
Pop!OS zero issues as described in this video. The only unplayable game I have is sadly Space Engineers.
18:42 Wait, WORLD OF GOO 2? WHEN THAT HAPPEND?! HOW I MISS THAT?
how did I not know about this channel??????????????? awesome work dude!!
i cant believe brilliant allowed u to do that ad
Bro this video so good lmao. I've been a Windows user my whole life and for 2 years I was using MacOS, I learned a lot about Unix systems but I decided to buy a new gaming PC, I thought I would be ready to migrate to Linux but maybe not lol at least as a daily driver, I don't want to leave a lot of performance on the table (I mean, It's an i9 14900k with a 4090 OC and I want to squeeze every drop out of them). I think I'll still try to configure Arch through a VM however, or try Asahi Linux on the Mac just for fun.
Finally someone that uses archinstall command
This is absolutely beautiful.
Disable steam shader prechashe, you don't need it anymore. That error was easy to fix, you didn't have to install arch one more time. Install all the packages for your driver and vulkan. Use gamemode %command% after you install gamemode.
21:39 I just solved that problem a few hours ago on my nixos lol. I just had to install rocm. Not sure how it is done in arch though.
Windows 10 will possibly be the LAST version of Windows I use I've tested gaming on Garuda Linux and is catching up with Windows pretty fast but be careful most games that were meant for Windows will not directly work it's better to still use Windows for gaming but most games I've seen have been working better on Linux than on Windows. It's mainly the developers fault if they don't allow a Linux option on most games which I think Valve might be doing in the near future thanks to the Steam Deck which SteamOS is based on Arch Linux btw.
Cachyos is also good but yk what it's fair using windows for gaming if you don't wanna deal with tinkering
next: TempleOS
easy Arch Linux install: EndeavourOS (NOT Manjaro, it does not use the original Arch package mirrors)
I feel like arch linux is harder to keep running than install, especially with the new install script
GNU/Linux ... no... Linux can (and does) use alternate toolchains. Suck it, Richard... Linus "practically" enabled Libre software development (we have to mention GIT here) in a way that greatly outshines GNU contributions (outside the GPLv2).
Your graphical issues happen consistantly when using OpenGL API. That problem might be specific to whatever user-space driver you're using. You may want to try your luck with using the Zink driver - it's OpenGL driver that's part of the Mesa project that runs on top of Vulkan API.
TH-cam recommended me this video and is so funny 😅 I really enjoy it
my man's back 🔥
damn 6:40 is so real. Deadpool 3 goes hard
5:12 is just Valve doing a bad job with their Vulkan CS2 release. They have priority on DX11.
I have played games like Baldurs Gate 3, No man sky, Fallout 4, RDR2, Starfield, Witcher 3, Dvinity original sin 2 on Garuda (arch based) and Tumbleweed. all on Ultra for a year now. and not have had these problems you seem to have. Just installed them on Heroic games (For GOG) and Steam without any tinkering. Although the NVME thing did happen on Arch all of sudden (why I moved to Opensuse Tumbleweed) though Vulcan did crash the BG3 on arch too, so I have been using directx instead. I guess I am just lucky.
Hardest Linux distros are Gentoo and void cause you have to build them yourself and any program that they don't have in their package system and they are quite limited in packages
What i found out on arch: ive managed to skip a lot of tinkering for gaming by using the flatpak version which seems to come with a lot of tweaks.
Also as someone else already said, with popOS you get a pretty good experience, pretty recent packages and gaming peformance already.
Using pop on one gaming laptop but arch on all the ret.
Also id reccommend timeshift backups, this can save your system pretty well.
But when you learned with arch, a lot of knowledge transfers to other distros.
You should try gaming on temple os
i forgot when you install arch with archinstall you must pick grub and btrfs or snapper wont work, ask gpt how to set up snapper, its a cli tool to automate snapshots and put those entries in grub, but you do need to set it up and update grupb and the ramfs, snapshots in the grub menu are a blessing , you cant brick your os short of the drive having a failure, all system files are stored separate ly from the ones you use ensuring you have stable fallbacks, and install the kernel you want and the linux-lts for a fallback you never know when a new kernel update will brick a rolling release so prepare my man i love arch, and get a spare drive too
If grub breaks, load up a live usb with a linux distro like GParted to fix grub :)
1:50 meanwhile gentoo having to compile everything by hand:
Or if you like arch but also like actually good distros install CachyOS. Arch with stuff actually set up, optimized kernel, optimized packages, wrappers for advanced tools and metapackages 🔥
(I'm the biggest fan of CachyOS, would sacrifice my firstborn to the devs)
Most underrated TH-camr from north Africa
Gamers will burn 100s of hours to get good at a video game but can't put the same effort towards learning Linux, which is more important.
You should've used Nobara os. Since Arch linux can be quite the mess to deal with, especially if you're new to Linux.
omg thanks I was losing my mind trying to run the finals and turns out it is that easy
For cs2,its actually good,like imagine that i cant even run csgo with max settings.I got on average 40fps on the lowest posiible settings
My experience trying to game on Linux was terrible and last for less then 2 days , with me giving up on Linux pretty much on the first day of using it, wine didn't work for all the games I wanted to play. Also one of them need easy anti cheat for it to run wich doesn't work on linux
I disagree with the point that Arch is hard to install.
Really you just need to be able to read documentation to install it.
The hard part is not breaking it by accident 8) (and resisting the urge to tell everyone you use arch btw)
I installed only once and later migrated content to other's drives once i purchased new pcs
I just find it funny that people think GNU/Linux is ready for the general gamer public. As long it isn't a walled off garden, the user will always find a way to screw something up, from the DE to the bootloader. Not everyone has the time/mood to fix their installation, reinstall nvidia drivers etc when they get home from work and want to turn off for a bit. I know it's less a fault of linux, more fault of greedy corpos but until that issue has been tackled, the "year of Linux" will not come come. Remember, you're trying to appeal to a demographic capable of messing up msconfig for more fps.
I want to abandon Windows. Almost all games that I play have native support, but the problem is one game: DESTINY 2
Bungie refuses to let Linux users play the game, the ant cheat doesn't work on Linux, and if you find a Workaround, you get instantly banned.
I hate Bungie.
Solution that has worked wonders for me: dual boot
Should have gotten a ups. When lightning hit my building i was the only person with a working computer because if that ups.
Try and install gamemode and in click on a steam game and set the launch options to gamemoderun %command% and then you will have better performance
or, specifically in source games (mostly), you can add "%command% -high" etc. into the game's launch options, it pretty much does the same thing as gamemode would do, but only for source games
It does hardly anything, just forces your CPU to run at max speed all the time.
I sense an influence of a certain frog man
ayo, you should do lfs next, best version of linux ngl and its totally easy to install and 100% not like 50billion times as difficult as arch.
I’m smelling a Martincitopants inspiration
NO WAY HE TRIED LINUX!!! 🗣🗣🗣
Bro i am sorry but why i feel like you copying Martincitopants completely in everything? The way you talk and the music and even the clothes, i just can’t ignore it
counter-strike 2 is supposed to run natively on linux, but people say it's still problematic.
edit: also, avoid EA games like a plague.
The tech version of martincitopants
"Cross platform is a scam"
NO. Cross platform API aren't a scam. Developers just don't utilize it properly.
try temple os
Been using NixOS myself, got a mostly working custom configuration, and it's really easy to update or make changes to my system, provided I look at the documentation. Beats maintaining a bash script that can get increasingly messier and that could easily become outdated with a new distro release. I tried Arch, and it's not for me (Only good option if you have an NVIDIA GPU though), and I like Fedora, but the bash script problem forced me to abandon it.
Honestly I don't understand how so many people get so many errors on Linux, probably something to do with Nvidia, never had an Nvidia card.
Still, even tho I almost never have weird issues like these in gaming, I still dual boot windows
(I sold my soul to League of Legends)
I thinking... Is maybe possible to run LoL on a vm?
@@MashonDev the anticheat doesn't like VMs
I had issues with BF1 installing it from Lutris. I solved it installing Bottles, a compatibility tool to run Windows apps. This tool has preset environments for different apps (EA f'ng app included) and you just have to run it and install your EA games.
Now, for me, it works even better than on native Windows.
"I love both, I hate both" Words to live by
Disable secure boot because it's arch Linux. Fedora and Ubuntu can boot with secure boot enabled.
Lol arch linux you can set it up
hey the fps issues might be cause of obs (?) if you use vkcapture obs plugin you will get much better performance when recording
I use a MacBook for work and I have a steamdeck for gaming, I have been using arch linux all along btw
for a gaming experience, ubuntu for as much as people rag on it nowadays, when users go on saying it went "microsoft" and "bloated", it's a pretty alright 'out of the box' gaming experience, popOS are specially good if you have nvidia graphics, it comes with nvidia graphics out of the box too and it's a much much simpler system to mess with
You never truly installed Arch if you used Archinstall. It's like a automatic in a car race. You WANT the controll if you use arch, at that point you might as well use Ubuntu fork.
you can use your installation disk to log into your system and reinstall grub, mostly you can solve problems with that tool
My experience with Linux is straight up bad lmao.
I tried many distros and it always ended up crashing because Nvidia old GPU moment. So fun. I do wish I could use linux but I guess not.