with the rise of the steam deck whil Windows compatibility layout proton and advancements in

peripheral and Hardware support Linux might actually be the better choice for your gaming PC
rather than Windows it doesn't collect and sell any data about you runs most games with
comparable or even slightly better results has a much lower storage and performance footprint and
supports a ton of peripherals and devices in today's video I'm going to show you how you can install
Linux on your gaming PC Run games configure your hard Ware as well as fix some minor issues
that might come across your way and let's get straight into it when it comes to Linux then the first
thing that you should know is that it is not really an operating system like Mac OS or Windows
technically speaking Linux is just the kernel or core of an operating system but since that just
complicates things if you hear someone talking about Linux what they actually mean are
distributions you might see some users in the online community recommend some of them for work
others for gaming but the reality is it doesn't really matter practically speaking you can think of
gaming oriented Linux dros like custom windows images they might perform a tiny bit better or serf
a specific use case like a handheld but it's usually not as much of an improvement as you might
think so what I recommend is to look at the visuals that come in the form of desktop environments
pick one and see what distributions ship it since we want a gaming system you want to pick a
distribution that ships the latest version of it a good Baseline for that and my personal
recommendation is Fedora but you can also choose a different one right so I'm going to skip the
installation part since it's pretty straightforward on the website and I also already made a couple
videos about it now if you have an AMD or Intel gut then you can skip this part however if you are
on Nvidia then make sure that you have their driver installed preferably through the software store
or package manager and if that doesn't work from their official website now once the Buu drivers
are set up let's start off by first installing steam now what you should know is that installing
software and Linux should be preferably done via the package manager or software store if you
cannot find steam in it then I recommend you to look it up for your specific distribution once it is
installed you can simply log in and start downloading games that are either natively supported or
have already received a compatibility rating from valve in order to be able to install every game you
need to enable Steam play in the settings you either want to choose the latest stable release or use
experimental which has the advantage or also disadvantage that it continuously updates now on a
fairly modern system not older than a couple of years what I also like to do is to deactivate Shada
preaching since most gpus and the graphics drivers can generate them on the fly without any major
performance penalties you know similar like it works with direct X on Windows some more
optimizations are of course disabling Mouse acceleration so that your curse speed is consistent in
menus enabling variable refresh rate support for more performance Hungry Games and of course
setting your displays refresh rate in general if you want to use a controller on your PC then you
should know that most of them that you would typically use are supported out of the box and it
doesn't really matter if you use them by cable Bluetooth or with some adapter if a device doesn't get
picked up right away the first thing you can do is to look for updates while it is connected if a third
party package is then found it automatically install STS it now of course there isn't a driver for
everything just yet but you would be surprised how many devices actually work all right let's move
on to non- Steam games I would like to share three applications with you the heroic games launcher
lutrus and Bottles now heroic is an open source game launcher that can access games from epic Gog
and Amazon if you want to access games from one of these platforms then it's a really great choice
however one little detail I currently recommend you to download it from their homepage in the
RPM format if you are on tutorial like me or de for a Debian based distro reason being that flat pack
the foundation of the one at the software store is a Sandbox application and it currently has some
issues as per description the second application that I want to show you is lutris lutrus is the perfect
choice if you want to quickly find a game and also install everything it needs with as little effort as
possible it also has the advantage that it sometimes comes with automated Scripts in case a game or
a specific version of it needs to be patched for compatibility the third and my personal choice is
bottles now bottles is not really just an application for gaming but running Windows software in
general the idea behind it is that each bottle has their own little Windows environment and virtual
file system this has the advantage that if you want to remove an application that is known to keep
some metadata around you can simply toss away the entire bottle oh and it can't mess with the other
ones of course you can either download Launchers from a pre-selected list or install them the
regular Windows Way by executing a setup file regardless of which option you choose you can of
course pin games and launchers to the desktop start menu or wherever else you want to if you want
to know which games are currently working on Linux and how well they do the best place to look is
of course proton DB it's mainly meant for Steam games and therefore doesn't include everything but
you get a pretty good picture of what usually works without any problems speaking of let's talk
about anti-che so some of you might already know that many game developers and Publishers
nowadays transition to kernal level anti-cheats which are supposed to prevent cheating on a really
low level now some of these Solutions obviously don't work on Linux because it's a completely
different platform but that doesn't mean that all of them do many games that feature batt eye easy
anti-che and some others have the ability to support Linux and according to Val all the that
developers have to do is to reach out to their Partners to enable support now of course in practice it's
not as simple as that and the solutions won't work in the same way as they do on Windows even if
they enable support on the website are we anti cheat yet you get a great overview of games that are
already supported but also on why some of them aren't and if you don't play any of these
unsupported games anyway then this isn't a concern for you at all let's move on to communication
TeamSpeak telegram Discord pick your poison it's all supported how ever Discord in particular is in
a bit of a tough spot like if you just use it for chatting it's completely fine for screen sharing
however they messed up a lot and Linux is not really that high on their priority list right now if you
run into that infinite screen selection Loop then what you want to do is to close it head on over to
your software Store and download flat seal a program which allows you to edit flat packs which
Discord in our case is you also want to make sure that you have the X wh Bridge installed then you
open up flat seal select Discord and scroll down to environment in here we want to add a new
variable that says xtg uncore session undor type equals X11 close it and reopen Discord if
everything went according to plan then when you try to share your screen again the wh and bridge
should take care of it other current limitations on Linux are screen sharing with audio and the
missing overlay but I'm sure that we will get there once Linux gets a bit more more traction if you
want to know how you can change your Mouse's DPI the RGB of your keyboard or your headset
settings then I already made an entire video about it so make sure to check it out that was a lot but
also not really that hard now was it on Fedora the Linux drro that I used in this video everything
was just possible without the terminal and it's actually kind of impressive how far the Linux desktop
has come but that's it for now I really hope that I could convince at least some of you to give Linux
a shot and I can't wait to read about your experiences down in the comments before I end this video
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