This channel has the linux gaming facts I crave.

I can't believe Wayland is finally fixed, i'm using it right now, Steam and everything are perfect, better than X11 in some ways. I never thought I would see the day

Also, I don't like Calamares installer. The original openSUSE installer that few noobs complain about haves its logic as Yast itself is. Once you learn from the source, you never regret it.

Question is: do you want the impossible with a standardized and main stream like Windows or do you want to gradually tinkering, step by step and starting from (in this case) openSUSE Tumbleweed? The best choice never comes for newbies. Even the sequences on what do you need to install first is crucial. That's why I will always discourage people to chose these distro instead of the main independent ones. Wanna have the chameleon side? Go pure, go openSUSE. Wanna stay Debian? Go Debian 12 and above even if also Mint is a smart solution and more time saver, there is no shame in that. And so on. Tendentiously having the fully independent distro is something that build in your mind the IT education. The order and logic for any configuration system. Reading, learning and giving yourself the right time for your personal learning curve is a must. Linux isn't for newbies that "never have time to learn".

Missing the best CachyOS

offtopic but what's the best linux distro for gaming on amd? i tried endeavouros and it had lots of issues for me

Hey bro please check out Aurora d1x ublue its so good😭 but note rpm ostree is slow, only use if you absolutely need something u can't get through other pkgs ,i use flatpaks and have a container with bazzite and it just works i have the DEV version of Auroroa on Plasma 6🫠 please review bro trust

As system76 devs are around here, here is an idea: i think some people (me included) would like to test the alpha/beta and report some bugs if found, but are more everyday users than pros. Maybe a section on GitHub, or a Video on how to: install and use latest version (as stated in the pinned comment) and how and where to report bugs would be beneficial. On the other hand: maybe thats exactly what you don't want as it could potentially create more overhead than actual benefit? Either way: happy bughunt!

Driver 555 fixes all flickering on wayland, I am running hyprland as daily driver and also have KDEplasma installed for gaming with HDR, I have both installed at least until HDR on hyprland, running on arch btw Edit: I have no issues switching between hyprland and plasma

This was an awesome overall loook at hyprlands current state. When it comes to day to day use I dont really notice a difference between hyprland, gnome, and kde.

Great info, I ran into some issues as well on my single nvidia desktop. I'll check it out again in some time, it seems very promising.

Thanks for these tests

It's really interesting. I recently installed Sway on my laptop running OpenSUSE with an Nvidia GPU to see if I'll get a better experience gaming on Wayland. I look like it's a "Yes" compared to my default DE - KDE. But I still experienced glitches while playing games (still an issue on Wayland + Nvidia driver). I hope to see the next driver 555.xx on OpenSUSE soon. If possible, can you do benchmarks on Sway vs. Hyprland vs. another DE on Wayland?

great video I am thinking of going fully Linux gaming with friends is the only thing that holds me back. Even if there is a 5% loss in performance I will switch

i highly suggest make a video about nvidia 555.xx drivers, it solves a lot of issues in Linux desktop enviroments.

Really didn't expect gnome to win considering how bloated it is. Maybe window managers excell on ram limited systems...

I wonder why hypr is slower than gnome. I would've thought it would be lighter.

Please don't call it an Alpha, because the alpha wasn't released yet! pre-alpha at best

Make sure to also add the popdev:master staging repository, as the version of COSMIC in the release repositories is typically much older than the ones we're working on. It will fix all of the issues you reported here. sudo apt-manage add popdev:master sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade

You've done your homework. I'm getting all the exact same issues. Especially freezing while playing videos.

nvidia 555 and cosmic explicit sync soon?

Have you tried Aerospace? They use something similar to i3wm

it looked like heroic had the LEAST fiddling of them all

so heroic is better than bottles and lutris?

To get rid off the second and nonesxistant (unknown) display, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Nvidia drivers.

I think it would be interesting to try switching her to Linux and making similar video about it :)

This is really early alpha. I'm not sure if it is even cooked enough to compare their design of the desktop metaphor to other DEs yet. I'm sure they will get the technicalities perfect down the line but I'm more excited to see how they approach making a new desktop distinction from Gnome and KDE. Hoping for the best of both worlds. The pretty polished intuitive design of Gnome with the pragmatism of KDE. Make video of your opinions on their design and approach once it is more cooked.

im glad youre back to windows 11

Thank you for going through the trouble to actually test the performance! I assumed when they were talking about performance they meant the desktop was snappier

The random second display you keep getting is the same issue I had. From my research it is something to do with Nvidia GPU and using their proprietary driver. Using the open source driver you shouldn't get the ghost monitor but also performance will suffer(for now). Edit: You can disable them with xrandr on X11. xrandr --output Unknown-1 --off You should possible be able to do it with ddcutil apparently but I don't know how.

Flickering with NVIDIA and Wayland will, within the next few months or so, very likely cease to be a problem. NVIDIA's 555 proprietary drivers have finally exposed a new API, allowing for explicit sync directly with the hardware, and when implemented into the desktops as it is with Xwayland currently, should help to remove the vast majority of visual bugs experienced without it. It's already merged into KDE and Gnome, and are idle in the code until their next releases.

I don't get the wayland hype. I did not see what were your impressions, you talked about the bugs, but what does cosmic bring to the table? What makes it different, the UI only?

Thank you, MH! I believe the COSMIC devs will get it right, but it's going to take some time. They're probably still ~2 months away from an alpha release.

good guy hugo <3 much love my boi

I dont know if it like this on other distros? but in Garuda I install Steam and Heroic games (for my GOG and Epic games), install the games I want and play (like Baldurs gate 3, Starfield and Fall out 4, all in 4K) I dont have to do anything else than that, no tinkering with Wine or anything else, just install and play, it is as easy as in Windows, as it should be. But I will try Opensuse Tumbleweed (I am kind of hooked on rolling distros nowadays) to see if it as easy to use for gaming.

Sorry but it is not clear to me (honest question): in your trials do you actually say that a Nvidia driver which broke under PikaOS broke that same driver in RegataOS? Because it was the same issue with the same driver on both distros? Or because one distro actually broke the other distro install? (is that even possible??) In any case, great content. Another KZfaqr opinion was to just install Kubuntu with the most recent kernel available and go from there.

Can't download it...

Did you enabled feral game mode in Lutris advanced settings?

Im migrating to Linux from windows and need to find a good balance between gaming and development, i found that EndeavorOS will support most of my monitor technologies because of KDE, i ll go with that one, Fedora is a good one too.

I think you can squeeze bit more extra performance if instead of usual desktop environment you build custom using window manager that has panels included and great selection of plugins because most of resources normaly used by dekstop environment will be used by launcher actualy. Over all great video that reveals that gaming on linux is progressing faster than usual and that could be attributed to microsoft and their decision Recall being the worst as it is huge invasion on privacy gamers don't want that.

Bazzite is pretty good. I still wish valve would officially release it, but I guess this about as close as I’ll get. Beggars can’t be choosers. Glad to have a plug and play windows replacement that works well on nvidia too.

I really do respect the way the garuda folks MEAN things; they genuinely seem to have worked hard to create a distribution that makes "install this and then play a video game on it" as easy + enjoyable an experience as possible. every time I test a game on garuda & then go test it on some other distro, garuda's seamless and the other one takes at least one extra Effort Unit to get up and running.. of course, they would have won my heart anyway just by actually USING the kwin effect that makes the windows wobble around when you move them (which I have COVETED yet BEEN UNABLE to get working ever since I found out it exists), so. I'm biased. dr460nized is cool!! and scythes are cool and gunblades are cool and shadow the hedgehog is cool. I mean it. great video; I've been wondering about this & it's nice to see some data!

I had it with windows. While having a brand new laptop with win11 and IRISxe graphic built on it, after windows announcement about future AI and recall, I I decided to move on. I currently use Zorin 17.1. The installation was easy and while it support running windows software which I haven't tried yet, I prefer a native widows OS so windows programs will run with no issues. Most of my needs are related to music and video. I wonder if this Atlas OS will work with this laptop using all the 16GB ram and having compatible drivers... So, is Atlas build for old PC only or it works also on the latest windows laptop and also run latest third party software?

i hope the x86 cpu will stay for ever... i will never agree to use Prism

Man, good social contribution with this video. Im looking for a good gaming distro

as someone who always seems to run into weird bluetooth issues THANKYOU for explaining and showing your troubleshooting steps. thats a sub from me

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Thanks a ton for this video

Discovered your channel and love the videos on your journey with Linux presented in a casual way. Subbed 👍

I gotta say that you are the best linux youtuber I've seen. Giving us the best example of an end user installing a fresh linux install on a normal PC. And on top of that you give extremely relavent information to me. Convinced me to switch to linux next time I'm at my main machine. Now the only thing I need to see is how to get Call Of Duty (the newer ones like Mw19 - Cold War - Vanguard - Mw22 - Mw3(2023)) working consistently on linux. That so far is the only thing that will cause me the most pain if I were to switch since it is the game I play the most in recent time.