How Linux Changed My Gaming Experience...

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► Chapters:
00:00 - Gaming on Linux has changed my mindset
00:34 - The worst possible example
01:04 - The Gamepass problem and why it doesn't matter
03:25 - Anti Cheats ...
06:52 - I don't care anymore
07:43 - The rest of my experience
08:16 - Switching to Linux was a good idea
08:47 - Conclusion
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@Lerndmina Ай бұрын

Just a note, when refunding on steam, you can refund to your original payment method. It doesn't need to go back to your steam wallet.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, that might be an errror

@felixfourcolor Ай бұрын

I wonder why many people don't know that. When you ask for a refund the webform explicitly asks where you want to refund to. It's not like it refunds to steam wallet by default and you have to click some weird button to ask for refund to credit card.

@xXRealXx Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH "might be an error"?! It is!

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

@@xXRealXx Not necessarily. It depends on if you already had wallet funds or not. From personal experience, I usually bought games with Steam Wallet funds, which is why it's that way in the video. It is true that you can refund it if you purchase it directly yes

@todesziege Ай бұрын

@@felixfourcolor I'm pretty sure that initially you could only refund to the wallet. Many people probably just assume it is still like that.

@gorilladev Ай бұрын

As a gamer and a Linux user for 15+ years , when I started my transition games were mostly unplayable and over time more & more games started playing nice. Today any game with anti-cheat that requires ring-0 access to my system it essential get blacklisted in my book and I never look at them again, they are essential malware. There is no reason for something with this much access on my system.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

Exactly. If they want to put a process running at the kernel level, they'd better make it at least source available or it isn't going to be installed on my system EVER.

@Fiveward Ай бұрын

Same here. Installing Riot's anti-cheat requires so much trust in that company. Even if you can manage to trust them hackers can still target it like what happened with Genshin.

@lainamitclaire Ай бұрын

@@Fiveward Genshin's anticheat was not bypassed and used as a backdoor though. An old version of the anti-cheat was packaged with alleged primogem generator programs in Russia to fool users into thinking it was legitimate by using an already verified dll file. This has literally happened for two decades now.

@michaelhoffmann2891 Ай бұрын

Very much this. What's the point of giving Microsoft the boot when you let other vendor's spyware in on your system through a different door?

@Masonicon Ай бұрын

Speaking of Anti-cheat, Easy anti-cheat make Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 unplayable for me

@booga2059 Ай бұрын

I now no longer have a Windows PC/Laptop since, Steam, Proton and Nobara have made everything so easy.

@VoyivodaFTW1 Ай бұрын

Same

@ivoryowl Ай бұрын

Never heard of Nobara. What's special about it?

@FlameForgedSoul Ай бұрын

@@ivoryowl It has specific kernel level alterations and preinstalls geared specifically towards gaming. Be warned: it's a definitive YMMV distro. It kept locking our screen up post installs so We abandoned it.

@blakeshively Ай бұрын

I love Nobara! Such a solid distro

@mugetz696 22 күн бұрын

Sure hasn't made my shooter experience better. All the anti cheat not working is so sad. Still have to dual boot windows to play them.

@BrunetteViking Ай бұрын

Linux changed my gaming addiction to programming addiction 🐧

@quinniwe Ай бұрын

Gosh, this happened to me a year ago after I learnt that you can customise GNOME (and Linux in general). Now I'm learning User Interface design, and using Hyprland as my Window Manager.

@nsawatchlistbait289 Ай бұрын

I want that. Tell me how

@javajav3004 Ай бұрын

@@nsawatchlistbait289 just start

@phylaxinator7040 Ай бұрын

Pro-gaming addiction

@backfischritter Ай бұрын

Sounds awful (also programming addict here)

@TerminalzPain Ай бұрын

Crazy how good Linux gaming has gotten since the last time I tried it. Removed Windows from my system a few days ago :)

@MRDeu Ай бұрын

It's been almost 3 years since i migrated entirely to Linux and it's been almost a year and a half since i eliminated dual boot, it doesn't make sense.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

@MRDeu I literally just got my first laptop with no OS, the Framework Laptop 16, after using a dual-boot with Windows 10 then 11 but actually booting into Windows. My Framework Laptop 16 ONLY runs Linux, and I just used fwupd to update the UEFI, no Windows required. Any company that offically supports Linux and has modern features like a 16 : 10 screen is higher on my list than a comparable Windows only laptop. Sadly, many Linux first laptops don't have touch screens or even 16 : 10 screens, but that is slowly changing.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Congrats

@reikanou-issen Ай бұрын

so, what next distro(s) are you planning to hop into? 😂

@lexcelius6921 Ай бұрын

@@reikanou-issenI mean if you're Distro Hopping you probably set you're Boot Partition to 1/4th or 1/8th of you're Boot Drive and thus you don't have to Wipe the Whole Drive when Distro Hopping just The Boot Partition. Honestly you do the same with Windows. In Partition Wizard just Shrink the Partition and reformat the Rest of the Drive.

@FinaLana-ir2jp 23 күн бұрын

just in time when a paid os openly declares itself as spyware, linux finally matures as gaming platform and personal computing platform.

@lanceenjoyscereal Ай бұрын

If you value gaming in general, never support a la carte subscriptions like game pass.

@Jaguar21010 21 күн бұрын

Once I realized this, I canceled immediately. It was fun for a little while, but it sets a very, very bad precedent for our favorite industry

@justanotherstanczyk Ай бұрын

For me the writing is on the wall, October 19th 2025. When windows 10 goes eol so does my use of windows.

@mistyfaderia Күн бұрын

you have windows 10 iot ltsc 2021 which has an eol of january 13, 2032

@justanotherstanczyk Күн бұрын

@@mistyfaderia I don't know much about that version of Windows but the "iot" suggests that version is for very low end embedded devices like smart thermostats.

@mistyfaderia Күн бұрын

@@justanotherstanczyk it's basically a special version of windows 10 that comes debloated out of the box and has a longer support period

@karimvarano9664 Ай бұрын

Thanks to Linux I don't play League of Legends anymore. It even has a preventive effect.

@cid-chan-2 Ай бұрын

Windows games were made for Windows. Windows games are not supposed to run on Linux. We made it work anyway. So yeah, hiccups are to be expected, but we made so many games just work. That's impressive work.

@thejackimonster9689 Ай бұрын

Always remember that Wine/Proton is 30 years of active development. It's insanely impressive. I mean if a Windows game doesn't work on Linux these days, I'm not thinking it's impossible but maybe it works next month.

@XbandTv Ай бұрын

And sometimes they run better on Linux!

@Pleiades_Erret 22 күн бұрын

My only straw is that I usually download some niche, sometimes not from steam games hidden in the far corner of internet. They work on windows, but I'm afraid of the compatibility issues that linux would have. I guess another 10 years before a complete accurate experience.

@thejackimonster9689 22 күн бұрын

@@Pleiades_Erret There are over 26000 games reported to ProtonDB. From those over 73% work without any or only with minor issues out of the box. So statistically speaking even very niche games have a much better chance to work than flipping a coin. Also keep in mind that most work on Wine and Proton is not targeting specific known games but issues in used APIs. So unless your niche games use any fancy and unknown dependencies, they will likely work. But if they don't, it would be much better to report it now than waiting 10 years before noticing any issues. Those niche games will definitely fix themselves on Linux if they should have any problem.

@yorimirus Ай бұрын

I hold a similar opinion now. I used to hate that some games refused to make their games compatible with linux, especially due to anticheats. Nowadays, I just don't play them. The only situation in which I play these kinds of games is when a friend wants to play together. In that case I just boot up windows, which happens quite rarely nowadays. Ironically, 90% of the time I boot up windows is because of MS Office, not games.

@docopoper Ай бұрын

MS Office is definitely still the gold standard. If you haven't tried it though I really recommend OnlyOffice. I've been very impressed with how clean and well designed it is.

@fearsmasher1299 Ай бұрын

Open Office or Softmake Office are free and have great compatibilty with MS Office. If I really need to make sure compatability is great, I use the free online version of MS Office.

@blllk8189 Ай бұрын

my guy ms office is just web apps. go to the website

@panxogaming1782 Ай бұрын

Linux gaming has come a long way and turned out really good. I remember back in 2012 playing windows games was a literal pain the butt. The fact that now you can run steam games and install steam almost without difficulties depending on the distro gives you lots of hope. Also lots of games runs even better on Linux right now. I was honestly surprised by Fallout 4, Skyrim and Doom Eternal. Even newer games like Palworld or Monster Hunter Iceborn. They can't ignore the most important fact here, which is that u're still buying them legally on Linux.

@quinniwe Ай бұрын

Steam works on every single distro completely without issues, because of the Steam Linux Runtime, which runs Steam in an Ubuntu container no matter the distro. This makes it more secure than the MacOS and Windows versions, as everything is ran with OS-Level virtualisation

@panxogaming1782 Ай бұрын

@@quinniwe True enough but some distros require you to do a little digging before installing it. Good luck trying "sudo pacman -S steam" without the multilib enabled for example. For new users it can be an issue.

@Masonicon Ай бұрын

Steam Deck was my go-to way of become Linux gamer Anyone else that played PC games on Linux via Steam Deck?

@Roxor128 29 күн бұрын

Desktop-only for me. Would have bought a Steam Deck when it was new, but it wasn't available in Australia, _and still isn't._ Hardware availability is not one of Valve's strong points.

@Akaterial Ай бұрын

I started testing out Linux Mint in 2021. When Elden Ring was released, I gave it a try and found that it work! That convinced me to take the plunge. I built my new main desktop as a pure Linux machine with no dual boot. I am never going back to the spyware called Windows again.

@Roxor128 29 күн бұрын

Did that myself two years earlier. Had a hardware failure, and as the end of support for Windows 7 was less than a year away, I just went straight to Linux Mint with the MATE desktop, rather than going through the hassle of installing Windows again for only a year of use. Was prepared to lose access to a bunch of games, but was pleasantly surprised at how good Proton was, even back then. Also found I'm less annoyed since making the move. It's like there's a hundred little things you don't really notice that are done better than on Windows.

@liquidreality472 16 күн бұрын

Fromsoft ftw

@nicksworld4610 Ай бұрын

Gaming in Zorin here

@EdToml Ай бұрын

Been using linux at home since 2000. I did not play many many games. Then, at the end of 2021, proton got my attention, and I started playing. Your take on games using ring 0 'anti cheat' mirrors mine. Its just a matter of time till one the these companies are hacked and the hackers figure out how to use the 'anti cheat' as a back door.... With good instrumentation in games, along with a good stats package, it should be possible to find cheaters without all the garbage vendors like to throw at us.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

Um, Minecraft has done server side anti-cheat for for years with success. There's no longer an excuse.

@linuxsquare Ай бұрын

Since a Level-0 anticheat is running in the background all the time, probably collecting data aswell and sending it to the company behind it, wouldn't it be a major privacy-invasion which should be possible to ban such software from people's PC's by (at least in Europe) strengthen the GDPR? I mean having a driver installed on my system without my consent, would be very creepy, if I had no idea that it's running all the time. 🤔

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

The problem is that you technically consent to it. Even if Vanguard started taking more measures on your system like blocking certain hardware, you technically agreed to it. The EU will only interact, if there is actual evidence of a market power benefitting from it directly.

@diminished4934 Ай бұрын

The issue with using probability for anti cheat is that you will catch the players that are really good at your game and end up going pro. You never want to ban someone based on a probability

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Not really. The probability method that I'm talking about doesn't span across the whole game, like calculating headshot percentages and all that. What I mean is stuff like, how likely is it to kill people 2 seconds after spawning across the whole map with a gun and this sort of thing. Or in the case of CS2, how likely is it, that someone fires a sniper rifle (scout) in some burst mode (which is technically impossible). It's about detecting the cheaters that are cheating as obvious as possible, and not just banning someone who has a high kill count

@craigd9305 Ай бұрын

The ONLY way I'd play a game with kernel level anti-cheat is to have a separate PC (or at least duel booted) that is ONLY used for those games and absolutely nothing personal.. I'm lucky though, that I don't tend to play online competitive games that are the targets for anti-cheat and am very impressed with how far Linux gaming has come in the last few years. I'm with you in that before I buy a game, I make sure it works on Linux and support games that don't try to purposely not work on Linux. I have a decent sized game catalog, so I don't need to play all the new stuff. :)

@hotrodjones74 Ай бұрын

Same here, I have too many games in my Steam library anyhow. I got them for dirt cheap on the Russian steam market when I lived there. On the seasonal sales some games were cheaper than a beer at the bar.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

The only way I'd even let it on ANY computer I own is to have the source publicly available and also audited by a group of trusted cyber security researchers. I think Vanguard even disallows VMs and dual booting. Guess what WON'T be on any computer I own?

@Linuxgaming2672 11 күн бұрын

Switched to Linux a few months ago. Now my channel is dedicated to my gaming habit on Linux.

@mouk3y Ай бұрын

Thanks for all your gaming on Linux updates! These are my favorites along with your videos on how to get stuff like Davinci Resolve and other annoying apps running well on Linux. I still dual boot for Destiny and other live service games because it's a way for my friends and I to still hang out and catch up with each other. One day I'm sure we'll find something else that's more Linux friendly, and I can finally stick with Linux full time.

@rhiss2325 Ай бұрын

@dreaper5813 How are you forced into playing quality games if generally most games already do work on linux? There is so much slop you could play right now on linux with proton. Also, a user who is tech savvy enough to be able to install any linux distro, could just install a debloated version of windows ltsc without any of M$ crap, and have more choices in what they can play. I agree on helldivers, it's pretty fun with friends, but it's pretty buggy/unstable and runs like crap both on windows and linux.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

@dreaper5813Heck, Riot has been owned by Tencent, a Chinese company, since 2010 (or maybe 2009, I'm not sure). No wonder they feeblely attempt to justify installing a rootkit to play two games. That doesn't fly and wouldn't fly ever for me. I never support games that actively block Wine/Proton. If they don't officially support Linux or the Steam Deck but don't try to screw over Linux gamers and let them play, I'm fine with that. My problem is when they don't.

@michaelb2westgaedu Ай бұрын

Last night we set up our VERY first Linux-based PC with the sole purpose of media and gaming (thanks to your how-to). Tonight, we game. Very much looking forward to it and the freedom from M$.

@chorba Ай бұрын

I keep my GamePass in my Xbox Series X and my Steam account in linux, best of both worlds

@lionnotsheep6048 2 күн бұрын

This is what I'm trying to do

@und3rpr Ай бұрын

If it is not supported on Linux, so I don’t play.

@epic_journey. Ай бұрын

do you have any gaming channel where you stream games, Micheal?

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Theoretically yes, but I'm currently not streaming

@sevenredundent7256 Ай бұрын

I mean, it's also bad advice to give one company near total control over the desktop marketplace but here we are. Competition is good, until that competition is against the dominant OS market player, then people default to their Stockholm syndrome.

@Frapskillar Ай бұрын

I'm so glad that my Steering wheel has community developed drivers. And it's a Fanatec Wheel

@SerdceDanko 12 күн бұрын

I play games when i have the right mood for it, so yeah subscription services with constant removal of titles is a big "NO" for me.

@MegaManNeo Ай бұрын

I can relate but since I do this basically since the Windows 7 days, I feel like I actually missed on quite a bunch of games that I would have enjoyed on PC normally. Oh well... there's still my second drive with Windows on it for those VR games and other than that, I mostly play Mario Kart and Splatoon online anyway.

@xrafter Ай бұрын

Isn't splatoon dead?

@MegaManNeo Ай бұрын

@@xrafter Why should it? Splatoon 3 is still actively played by many many people and Splatoon 1 is back online thanks to the Pretendo project. Also some folks still play S2.

@xrafter Ай бұрын

@@MegaManNeo Good. There are other splaton version it seems for the nentido switcher

@MegaManNeo Ай бұрын

@@xrafter Yes, Splatoon 2 and 3 are for Switch.

@xrafter Ай бұрын

@@MegaManNeo Excellent. I thought the game died with the servers for 3DS.

@kaiquesilva9513 Ай бұрын

Nice vídeo Michael.

@EmanuelePersano-qs3cg Ай бұрын

Hi, I'm an Italian guy who has been using Linux Ubuntu for 20 years. Never had any problems. The only problem to reveal is that in your opinion, can you use it every day or even now in 2024 and is it too early and is it better to get a dual boot??

@nsawatchlistbait289 Ай бұрын

Hey valve, gimme SteamOS ISO already

@thejackimonster9689 Ай бұрын

Theoretically you shouldn't need SteamOS since there are a lot of good Linux distributions out there to choose from. But I assume it would help if gamers had a company like Valve behind such a distribution for PC. They probably wait until they think support for Nvidia GPUs is reliable enough for their audience since they can't control what PC configuration it gets installed on.

@astridhurron1198 Ай бұрын

What distro do you use? 😊

@ricardo_vergara Ай бұрын

Great video, a question, for a dell 7490 laptop, fedora gnome or kde? I will follow the steps in your video to save battery.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Pure preference. From the battery aspect, they are pretty similar

@ricardo_vergara Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH Thanks for answering, the next thing would be, what browser do you use?

@Leon_Portier 29 күн бұрын

I've switched to linux about a year ago. I'm blown away how good the gaming is! Only thing I dual boot for are my flightsims.

@sherrilltechnology Ай бұрын

I played about half of Detroit Become Human on PopOS and it ran wayyyy better than Windows 11

@quinniwe Ай бұрын

I played Death Stranding on my GTX 1650 laptop running Arch BTW at a solid 30. On Windows, it could barely reach that.

@AlanDike Ай бұрын

So question... I've found that with nvidia and intel graphics cards in my laptop... the effort required to switch between graphics just to play 30 minutes of games... It's either use prime to select nvidia and have it all being rendered with the nvidia card.. OR using a rather convoluted CLI to launch a program in order to use my nvidia card on my games... I know, I could JUST edit every launcher I have for my games.. but man that is not a smooth experience. If it was my desktop and I only needed the one video card... battery life on my laptop drops to about an hour running the nvidia card over the xe graphics...

@thejackimonster9689 Ай бұрын

Great video! As a Linux gamer myself, I still think it would be better if more games would be available but I also noticed that finding alternatives hasn't been as difficult as people think. There are a lot of great games out there which work great on Linux. Maybe there will be a valid solution to fight cheating without interfering with peoples privacy or control over their own system. So we can get more cross-compatible competitive online games.

@Roxor128 29 күн бұрын

As far as quantity of games goes, I don't think there's anything to worry about. Between DOSBox, Steam, and the odd emulator, I've got more than I can play.

@thejackimonster9689 29 күн бұрын

@@Roxor128 Yeah, quantity is pretty good. For some older games Proton or Wine can even be the better option over running them on Windows. Because modern Windows can have compatibility issues as well and older graphics APIs don't get any updates there anymore.

@IonStream 18 күн бұрын

I've just spent the last 2 days sorting Linux out and giving it a go and I've been really impressed so far, especially with gaming. That answers the 1 of 2 reasons I have been using Windows. Unfortunately, making music and relying on specific software for it just makes the switch fully a bit too difficult for me which is the second reason I have been using Window. Especially as a newbiew to Linux, the hoops to jump through to get specific software to work has just made me give up on fully converting! So I'll continue to dual boot for music production on Windows, and Linux for daily browsing/gaming. Loving it though!

@seditiouswalrus Ай бұрын

You bring up a lot of solid points.

@fanshaw Ай бұрын

I followed the same path quite a few years ago. Dual boot became annoying, most things I wanted seemed to be on linux and I rebooted less and less. I used to reboot just to update windows, but its probably a couple of years since I did that. I had vmware player for non-game windows applications I wanted, but that had some problems a couple of years ago and I never needed it enough to fix it.

@ryandls2592 Ай бұрын

And if your hardware doesn't havre a linux app to configure it, don't be afraid to setup a minimal windows vm. I had that issue with my aio cooler

@CathrineMacNiel Ай бұрын

yeah I have to do that for my Flightsticks, their configuration software is windows only :/ Luckily you can setup a windows VM without a product key.

@MissouriReaper 19 күн бұрын

Do you have a way to get FiveM to run on Linux I am interested

@Sparky_Chipmunk 18 күн бұрын

It's only a matter of time indeed, you are very right about that.

@Tony-xn7sd Ай бұрын

The burning questions for me are, Will I be able to play the games I already have on my HDs if I get rid of windows and install Linux as my only OS, and which distro of Linux is best for gamers?, any help appreciated :)

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

If they are on a dedicated drive or partition then yes, since Linux understands the Windows Filesystem NTFS. If you are going to stick to Linux however, I would recommend to transition it to something else, due to slightly better performance and reliability. NTFS is proprietary non the less, which makes it harder to maintain and optimize

@TheaishDevil Ай бұрын

I game on arch. I use BSPWM as my go to WM while gaming while Hyprland when I work since my GPU crashes 1 out of 10 times on Hyprland.

@UsualCivilisationDestroyer 11 күн бұрын

I run cataclysm classic on Manjaro yesterday but today it didnt run. I started via Lutris>battlenet. Any ideas?

@chrisgraff2103 Ай бұрын

What distro do you guys recommend. I am really sick on windows and it's crap and want to try a gaming friendly distro. I have tried Garuda on a spare of but hear it's "bloated". I have an 4080 you with modern hardware.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

I don't think that Garuda is bloated. A couple of users believe that every piece of software that they don't need is bloat. This does however often also include some standard software like a proper screenshot tool, which is technically no bloat at all. Don't think about it too much. Edit: I personally use Fedora btw.

@chrisgraff2103 Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH yeah I read this statement somewhere else and decided I am not a Linux pro and having extra software is better then me struggling to learn how to install it lol. I need to get these training wheels off either way.

@mattg8888 Ай бұрын

Another 303 user! ;-) Love that mouse. But: I also switched to Linux for good a little while back and even went for endeavour, which is supposed to be harder than others (arch in general is). It is true, I find it more difficult at times than Ubuntu, but it is manageable. Thank you for mentioning piper. I have used that way back when I first tried to switch a couple of years back and support wasn't great back then, but now both my mice work perfectly (305 and 303).

@Haraldikalvalid 4 сағат бұрын

I recently switched to Linux full time. I'm running Ubuntu and so far I've been getting Steam to play most of my games. For those games that do require anti-cheat I've considered using a Virtual Machine with GPU Pass-through. I'm fortunate that my hardware supports IOmmu and all that jazz... Worst case scenario, I just don't play those games. There are plenty others and at the end of the day I can always get a console or whatever. Great video btw ✌

@demos113 Ай бұрын

My games list hit critical mass a few months ago when nearly all of them were linux compatible in some form, did my full switch to Linux Mint LTS and unplugged my Win 10 ssd. The number of game crashes have dropped to nearly zero compared to my Win 10 experience. 🙂👍

@tylerdean980 Ай бұрын

I just played a round of Battlefield 1 multiplayer on Arch and had no issues. Is the new anti-cheat being used yet?

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

1 actually might not have it yet. Mixed posts online, but it seems like it's still on Fairplay

@sylvershadow1247 Ай бұрын

I avoid dual booting with VFIO, but I barely boot my Windows VM anymore. Only played on it for Halo: Infinite. I used to manage my iPhone with it, but I switched to an old MacBook for that.

@nebulous962 Ай бұрын

6:48 yeah and you can even spoof hwid so instead of monitor it will show as like phone or something like that.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Yep

@toinfinityandyourmom2219 Ай бұрын

eac doesn't ban you if you are in a virtual machine. You just need to change some setting in your xml file.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

But it could in the future and that's the problem. Getting your main banned is not good

@Phoenix_Core 24 күн бұрын

Okay, so I am entirely in with logitech g hub. its not on linux i have literally all my peripherals in logitec. G502 lightspeed, powerplay mat for mouse, g915, brio camera - i do need a new microphone the logitec standalone ones keep having driver issues, and are failing- I am going to switch to sony). what now?

@Hazmatguy117 Ай бұрын

Factorio works awesome in Linux, so does self hosting a multiplayer Linux VM server from a Linux hypervisor forwarded from Linux driven network switches attached to a Linux firewall.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Self hosting is really fun if you have the hardware for it. I myself tried it, but it was eventually bottlenecked by my Internet Connection (Private VPN that is)

@aeebeecee3737 Ай бұрын

sudo pacman -Rns microsoft-windows sudo apt purge microsoft-windows sudo dnf remove microsoft-windows

@Moonwired 13 күн бұрын

Right, just not playing certain games really wasn’t the direction i was hoping this was going to go.

@randomdude12370 22 күн бұрын

The other reason why I still keep windows after a few years on a second drive, is because my racing sim setup will not work on linux.

@xmeo209 Ай бұрын

Look at well... Minecraft. The servers all use server side anticheats. Most of them are trash, but some of them are really good. You don't need client-side AC's.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

That's how it should be done. Tencent? That's how much they saved by not implementing it and forcing users to install rootkits! 😂

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Minecraft is a lot easier to handle though. Like as I said, Ragehacks are pretty much detectable, but aim assist or wallhacks not so much.

@maladjustedtv 2 күн бұрын

As an exclusively Mac OS user for about 20yrs who mainly games on consoles, but REALLY WANTS to play "Windows" versions of some games (mainly Skyrim), this is really exciting to hear!! Id rather not "hack" my Mac Pro in order to run Windows effectively in order to game!

@entelin 12 күн бұрын

Back around 2001 I thought the year of the linux desktop was just around the corner. Joking aside though, a lot of people did actually, and for good reason, it was objectively better in a lot of very real tangible ways, most people were still on win98 after all. You had Loki Software trying to make a business out of porting games to linux, and for a number of years I was exclusively on linux thanks to that, Civ 3 and Tribes 2 for example. Fun fact: Loki was the original developer of libSDL, which they made to help their effort in porting Civ3. It's been used by many things since, including Stardew Valley. I'm really glad to see the renewed attention to desktop linux, mostly thanks to Steam/Valve/Proton bringing in some of the gaming userbase. A lot of people in the linux world don't fully appreciate that most people don't use computers just for the hell of it, we all use computers fundamentally to run applications we want or need to run, and if the OS can't do that, then that's really the end of the discussion. The reality is that the year of the linux desktop cannot occur until linux has 100% binary compatibility with windows and ideally apple as well.

@danielmugas3009 Ай бұрын

if the developer does not treat me well... its over and i play other things, and besides, why risk my security with ring 0 anticheats?

@TomMAnderson87 Ай бұрын

Micahel, do you still use Hard Drives on Linux? Thanks

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

For storage and as long as they work yes. For the main drive no. HDDs are pretty slow nowadays

@TomMAnderson87 Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH Do you use SSD instead?

@ruan9631 Ай бұрын

which browser do you use?

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Brave and Firefox

@D3K018 Ай бұрын

I had a dual booted system with windows 11 and Mint for a long time as well, however, after learning that Microsoft will put an end to the Windows Mixed Reality service (and VR was the sole reason I still had a dual boot), I decided to ditch Windows fpr good and try to make work VR in a brand new partition I created of Arch to completely replace Windows. I already got a glimpse of VR working on Linix, since I was able to install the Monado driver in my Mint, however, I couldn't find a way to play steam games there (because the latest mint has the 22nd version of Ubuntu). But, who knows? Maybe arch will make everything work and the rest of my games might work better as well!

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Valve is working on VR at the moment. I guess there will be some changes later this year if their development pace continues

@Ahm3dHaSSan79 Ай бұрын

Sehr gutes Video. Bin mit dem C64 und anschließend mit einem 386 SX25 groß geworden. Dos 5.0 und recht schnell, 6.22 und Windooof 3.1. War eigentlich immer zufrieden.... aber nachdem 8.1 raus kam, war ich unzufrieden und ich habe Linux ausprobiert, natürlich nur im Dual Boot oder auf virtueller Ebene. Nachdem Windoof 10 raus kam, habe ich mehr und mehr mit Linux experimentiert und ca. 70 Distros ausprobiert. Windows 11 habe ich ca. ein Jahr benutzt und bin mittlerweile Windooof frei. Im Moment benutze ich PopOS zu zocken und Manjaro im Dual Boot zum Arbeiten. Für den Notfall habe ich noch eine externe SSD mit Windows 11, aber hauptsächlich nutze ich nur noch Linux. Mittlerweile nutze ich neben PopOS und Manjaro, auch noch eine dritte SSD mit Batocera, damit ich meine Retro Games unbeschwert zocken kann...

@WololoWololo2 Ай бұрын

We need to make Linux more popular 😊 great work, keep doing

@ericwood3709 Ай бұрын

It has gotten so good now. I'm on Fedora and things are almost perfect. Close enough, anyway. And I prefer it for running emulators and basically everything else. Gnome is hella polished, the system is stable and solid.. My Steam copy of Halo Master Chief Collection works.. I'm a happy camper.

@xD3S1x Ай бұрын

Is there any solution to Razer stuff? I have keyboard and gamepad. I don't care about RGB, I just want my profiles. And Reolink CCTV software.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Razer stuff has probably the best support: openrazer.github.io/

@lichtii1972 17 күн бұрын

which linux distro do you use?

@MichaelNROH 16 күн бұрын

Fedora

@ZaberfangX Ай бұрын

Pure Distro Linux phones not far behind too, as right now there usable not on everything but it's getting there.

@quinniwe Ай бұрын

Linux phones should be completely fine as they have Waydroid which can run a whole Android GUI and apps in. And they also have the beautiful GNOME-based Desktop Environment, PhoSH

@ZaberfangX Ай бұрын

@@quinniwe agreed but still some need abit more work they still useable

@raptor4211 Ай бұрын

I've started using linux with Mint about a month ago. It's so far been a mostly positive than a negative experience. There are still issues with some games and software but I will still continue dual booting until somehow anticheats for competivie games will be working with linux.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

I've seen your response to several other comments on this video but I still agree with ever word you said. Don't support these companies. Support those who at least try to make their games work with Proton or even the Steam Deck instead.

@raptor4211 Ай бұрын

@dreaper5813 Tbh, most of the AAA games I bought were couple of years ago. I didn't know anything about linux or if gaming was possible back then until someordinarygamers released his "delete windows today" video. Now that Linux gaming has become mostly compatible, I kinda feel bad that I have to switch back to windows just to play the unsupported titles. The only reason these massive AAA companies don't support Linux is because the labor to make it possible isn't worth it for a small percentage of users compared to the majority of users being on windows. The only way we can convince these companies to support us is to get more people to switch to Linux which could takes years depending on how bad the updates ruin the os. Also, the kernel level anticheat makes it impossible to monitor the private and secure Linux kernel. If those two things can be fixed, it will be final nail in the coffin for gaming on windows.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

@@raptor4211 Iagree with Muthar completely. Windows is also spyware and adware; it been that way since Windows 8 and Windows 8.1's Smart Search feature. As for your second paragraph, these big AAA companies not supporting Linux has NOTHING to do with not being able to port their games; Proton can do that for them with minimal work. The problem is these CEOs and other executives do understand why users are leaving Windows for Linux; heck, they may be paid by Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they were.

@raptor4211 Ай бұрын

@cameronbosch1213 I haven't seen any proof of CEOs or other executives being paid my MS. As for the anti cheat issue, I'll be a bit more specific. For example, Easy anti cheat isn't a kernel level anti cheat, which is why games like helldivers2, battlebit, apex legends, insurgency sandstorm etc work with no issues on linux. The issue here is the anti cheats for games such as Tarkov, Rainbow 6, Bf1/5/2042, LoL, CoD are rootkits, which require full access to the kernel from boot. Now I don't know much about linux in depth on how it's kernel designed but what I've seen is that these rootkits were designed to read the windows kernel. Even though wine and Proton do convert that windows code to linux, that action triggers the rootkit anticheat to ban because of that conversion. However, you are right about the devs not caring about the linux users. But that's because they are busy prioritizing with microtransactions, battle passes, and constant content updates. Their executives don't see worth in supporting linux under their anticheat since it costs them money and time to reconfigue an anticheat for a small user base that uses linux. Even the latest LoL anti-cheat update had the devs state that the amount of work they would have to do only to get around 800 player increase doesn't warrant the linux support. I really wish it can be easy for wine to convert it and work seamlessly but I'm not a genius linux guru. So I wouldn't even know how much work would it take to add linux compatibility for the rootkits.

@autohmae Ай бұрын

7:28 yeah, that sounds like a deal they made with Geforce Now

@pablosanmartinvarela1773 Ай бұрын

I don't think I'll game on Linux until we get a good voltage curve editor (like Afterburner) and gpu fan control. My Ampere gpu gets pretty hot otherwise.

@sanjay59741 Ай бұрын

Try Tuxlocker. But read the document first if your GPU is supported and the features you are after and dual boot to try out maybe. I am using it for my GPU.

@goldenmikytlgp3484 Ай бұрын

We take W’a for consistent fps

@donald1792 Ай бұрын

why don't you have a patreon?

@powerdude_dk 17 күн бұрын

True!

@ttrev007 Ай бұрын

I like keeping updated with Linux gaming. I hope that someday it will be viable for me, since i don't really like the direction Windows is heading. My main problem is that i play a MMO that has an anit-cheat that is not compatible, a gamepad i use that only has a windows app to customize it, and i really like Minecraft and some of the people i play with only use the Bedrock version. But, i am hopeful that eventually with the steam deck encouraging compatibility with games that Linux might eventually be a good mainstream gaming OS.

@thejackimonster9689 Ай бұрын

I think there are ways to play Minecraft Bedrock on Linux as well. Which MMO?

@phonemophoneko Ай бұрын

since ragnarok online origin is supported in linux via steam (add non steam game) im liking it.

@theChramoX Ай бұрын

dual booting is a mess sometimes. like using Linux on main and windows second hand. like windows update waiting. every. single. time.

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

If EA makes The Sims Project Rene / The Sims 5 use EA anti-cheat, I'm dumping them for good. That would be the final straw. I don't play any of their other games anyway. Ubisoft has only one good game that isn't on Steam and runs well on Linux (it's on the Epic Games Store), but it can be installed with the Heroic Games Launcher and works well with Proton. Now they should have put it on Steam, but at least it's playable. Now all of these first person shooters with anti-cheat either deliberately configured not to support Linux or that actively blocks Linux gamers, that I would never touch. Finally, any rootkit that requires kernel-level access (ring 0) and that basically blocks dual-booting and running in a VM I won't install even if it worked on Linux. I think you know which one I'm talking about, and it's so much worse because of who owns it.

@LupoTosk96 Ай бұрын

There's one reason why I don't play in Linux yet, and has nothing to do with games: I can get everything working, except my Elite Series controllers back paddles via Bluetooth on Steam. I have 3 weeks off soon and hopefully time to look into that. 😅

@HickoryDickory86 17 күн бұрын

It's really unfortunate that most games aren't made cross-platform from the start. I have watched various software engineers start writing game engines from scratch. What I have learned from them is that, if you start the process with cross-platform functionality in mind from the get-go, it is a relatively trivial matter. It just takes a little work at the beginning with the set-up and then the rest of the development flows as usual, with a few housekeeping tasks here and there along the way. This is helped even more if the developers choose to go with open, cross-platform, and/or vendor agnostic technologies (e.g., Vulkan API instead of Direct3D, AMD's GPUOpen open source solutions instead of Nvidia's proprietary solutions, etc.). Also, there are now universal package formats like Flatpak that would make distribution on Linux a non-issue, contrasted with the past, when different distros and their unique package formats and dependencies had to be accounted for.

@ArielLothlorien Ай бұрын

What distro do you run?

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Fedora

@ArielLothlorien Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH interesting any perticular reason you did that over Ubuntu? I am considering Kubuntu.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

@@ArielLothlorien Initially I just preferred the default Gnome experience out of the box, but over time it has proven itself to be easier to maintain. I prefer Flatpaks and Debs over Snaps, and removing them from Ubuntu is not as intuitive. That's about it.

@ArielLothlorien Ай бұрын

@@MichaelNROH interesting I have always used Ubuntu on my servers except when I was young in my hacker goth phase using gentoo lolz have not really messed with Fedora much though. Do you know if one or the other has better support for Nvidia RTX GPUs?

@G1esas Ай бұрын

I've tried to switch off dual booting, to the kvm/qemu VM , and i've managed with help of 1 random guy that i found on reddit, make not just a gpu passtrough (it was ez for me personally), but the whole "PC passtrough". In short, Fortnite doesn't allow you to play under virtual machine, and i were kicked out without VM modifications while launching the match. After few tweaks, every device been shown in task manager is been named properly, just like all my real stuff is. And i were able to play fortnite without issues, the full match, but there is risk of being banned due to bypassing anticheat. I kinda reccomend it to do, only if you have 2 gpu's (or atleast 1 real gpu, and 1 gpu off the CPU), if only 1 gpu - dont bother, use dual boot.

@cybernit3 Ай бұрын

So if you run Windows 10/11 within a VM to play a multiplayer game that requires anticheat and also have a tweak that lies saying you are not using a VM it will work no problem even with valorant? This tweak is with in the VM or run some program to do that? This is sort of all new to me and wondering about this. Right now I usually run Windows 11 but thinking of installing linux. One game I play tanki online they only ask to run anti-cheat in competions events not for general public matches and runs thru the browser. Thank you for explaining about this.

@G1esas Ай бұрын

@@cybernit3 Well, i'm not valorant player, for alot of reasons, so i can't assist you within valorant anticheat which is kernel stuff. In linux, exist QEMU/KVM virtualmachine, and GUI named something like virtmanager. In simple terms, i've tweaked my yaml config of entire virtual machine, in that way, that is passedtrough my entire processor and other devices. (It doesn't mean that linux can't use atleast some of processor while VM is running, linux supposedly working fine with these conditions). So in summary, it's just a cleverly-adjusted config. Altough, during usage of it, I had 1 peculiar bug that was spreaded across all games, i can't describe exactly what it was, but sometimes game would just "run poorly for no reason". So beware of that thing actually might happening. And if you're just starting with linux, dont rush too much with VM without knowing basic's of linux interactions versus windows's. And don't immidiatley seek for "pre-configured VM with anticheat bypass", because it's really requires kinda personal steps to do

@SirRFI Ай бұрын

> only if you have 2 gpu's I assume a laptop with iGPU and dGPU would be fine then?

@Umbralogy Ай бұрын

@@cybernit3 nope valorant was patched within 3 months. It used to work but now it doesn't. Same with fortnite.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

The problem is, that you can never really abstract your VM to look like a native machine, as Anti Cheats might try to access resources that are being reserved by the host. As soon as there is some weird hardware combination, like an odd number of cores or not all cores perform like they should, then you might still get banned

@mikeygduv 12 күн бұрын

I just realized a whole new angle on why Microsoft goes so hard buying up game companies.

@TheDarthChungus Ай бұрын

Some of the games I mainly want to play are battlefield 2042 and the new MW2. However, the way the games are going (mostly call of duty), I may not want to play them anymore.

@cadywelp235 Ай бұрын

working on installing Linux on my machine, bf2042 is the only real reason I'm dual booting

@darkben2274 14 күн бұрын

Security info on Linux please ? Like any native anti virus/malware on it that get updated ?

@notjustforhackers4252 13 күн бұрын

Don't use that stuff on a Linux desktop mate.

@perperikis5501 Ай бұрын

So what is the optimal Linux distribution to switch to nowdays, for a Windows 11 gaming PC with nvidia ?

@necuz Ай бұрын

People say that distro doesn't matter, but for gaming it's good to go with one that's tailored to that, since it will have better defaults. Nobara, CachyOS, Bazzite.

@perperikis5501 Ай бұрын

@@necuz Ah thanks, I was thinking about a more mainstream one though, since usage is game-centric but not exclusively that. I know that Ubuntu is not ideal for a game-centric PC, especially for nvidia gpus. I wonder if Fedora is the better choice among popular distros (e.g. if it plays well with nvidia drivers + steam).

@necuz Ай бұрын

@@perperikis5501 Nobara is literally just Fedora with a bunch of fixes/tweaks specifically for gaming.

@DDracee Ай бұрын

personally i prefer arch based distros to follow what steamos is doing (90% of the gaming advancements on linux came straight from valve specifically for steamos), being a rolling distro your core packages are always on the latest versions to reap any performance benefits possible and the other thing to consider is nvidia drivers can be a pain to install, so a distro that can handle that for you is pretty great so because of those reasons im rolling endeavorOS, been eyeing cachyOS too but waiting until its a little less new

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

If you have an Nvidia RTX GPU (or 16 series GPU), try EndeavourOS if you're fine with Arch and using the command-line to update your system. It still has a GUI installer, a live environment with KDE Plasma 6 (but you can choose pretty much any major DE at install time), and Nvidia drivers as a boot option. If you don't want to use the command-line as often, you can try something like Pop!_OS once the COSMIC update is out (give it a few months for it to happen), Linux Mint Cinnamon, or even OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. If you're running a GTX 9 or 10 series GPU, you're kind of in between a rock and a hard place, as once Nvidia stops updating those with the official propietary drivers, you'll be on your own, as the open source NVK/Nouveau drivers can only support them if Nvidia opens their reclocking support, which may never happen. In that case, your best bet may be buying a new GPU for a desktop or a new laptop with something newer unfortunately. AMD or Intel GPUs should have no problem as Mesa perfectly supports anything remotely recent.

@mrkostya008 Ай бұрын

So wait, does D2 run well in KVM?

@cameronbosch1213 Ай бұрын

Idk. Why support that company?

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Probably not, as the Anti Cheat will likely detect the VM.

@slava6105 Ай бұрын

9:00 If I'm not mistaken, I heard about fedora laptop coming out this year.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

There already are a couple of Linux devices from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, etc., but you usually only get them online or for business use.

@moduli7597 Ай бұрын

Playing Minecraft on ubuntu felt more smoother than on windows. Does anyone agree? And for office related tasks, i feel ms office is convenient to use. Is there anything similar to ms office on linux.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

I think that might just be placebo or some driver settings like VRR (if below refresh rate). I find it to run the same

@urooj09 14 күн бұрын

There is libre office but tbh nothing comes close to MS office .

@tubeDude48 Ай бұрын

You got my vote for *DUMPING WINDOZ !!*

@ShayneHartford Ай бұрын

GeForce Now works because they have a unique identifier passed through the VM as a property which can be used by the game to both identify that you're using GeForce Now and allow you past the anti-cheat, and allow them to uniquely identify you to your GeForce account and ban you. You can make a KVM which emulates physical hardware fairly well and will work for some anti-cheats, but not all.

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Is this backed by an article or anything? From what I found, there is no clear documentation on this.

@shuccle6161 19 күн бұрын

which linux do u use to game

@MichaelNROH 18 күн бұрын

Fedora currently

@opfax163 Ай бұрын

Wine , lutris , proton ❤

@CathrineMacNiel Ай бұрын

and to top it all off: Glorious Eggroll!

@opfax163 Ай бұрын

@@CathrineMacNielI don't know this one , I'm gonna check it .

@CathrineMacNiel Ай бұрын

@@opfax163 GloriousEggroll is the developer of Nobara Linux, and the patched versions of wine (wine-ge) and proton (proton-ge)

@manav620 Ай бұрын

Is there no way to play Valorant on linux .. I am only stopping switching to debian cause of that I had boot pendrive with debian .

@MichaelNROH Ай бұрын

Valorant is a Windows exlusive game. There is no other platform it currently works on, since it needs the Microsoft NT Kernel driver (Anti Cheat) Vanguard

@chad_8313 Ай бұрын

I did the dual thing for a bit, so I could still play games like PUBG. I tried the Virtualbox route to configure gaming mice too. But I came to the realization that I was crippling myself using Linux as a gaming OS. I can't access all of my games I paid for, I can't even setup a profile on my mouse. Is that Linux's fault, no, of course not. But why spend all that time trying to make Linux work for gaming, when I can just use Windows and not be hassled?