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I’ve noticed a lot more talk about Bazzite lately and I’ve been wanting to at least give it a try as a daily driver. I’m not us gaming though I do dev work and what have you. For people on Bazzite that also do that, how is it? easy to set up for that like say using Doom Emacs or what have you?
its nice as a console. boots right into steam, start game with controller, bam. Since you can get Lutris games added to your steam library, there are so many game and platform options available.
bad: yeah you need to tinker around with a couple of games so they run right. Some only start with the specific proton version, some just take very long to start, some dont like the steam overlay, etc. But once you have them set up, its the best.
If IDEs from Flathub and CLI tools from Homebrew serve your needs, no further action is required. If deeper system integration is needed for VSCode (ie. devcontainers), Docker (ie. Podman is not sufficient), etc - then see below specialized images.
There is a whole Bazzite for Devs page that mentions Bazzite-DX for development to handle some things like devcontainers: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite-dx
Their main website also says:
Running a game, a development environment, a container for your Jellyfin server, or a utility only available on the Arch User Repository? You can rest assured it works here. Bazzite is developed on Bazzite.
At the end of the day, its an immutable fedora distro. Which may serve your needs. or may not. And bazzite’s primary focus is on gaming. It will most likely work (given a few criteria), but it may not given that is not their primary focus.
I initially installed Bazzite when switching to Linux, but the development experience made me switch to Kubuntu after a few days. I’ve had various problems with development tools which probably related to Bazzite’s immutability. For example I couldn’t get Godot to connect with a code editor. I’m sure there were solutions to those problems, but I haven’t regretted switching. Development works great now and gaming feels just as good to me as it did on Bazzite.
Look up Bazzite DX. Its a developers oriented version. Other than that, distrobox is amazing for creating containers for your projects, allowing you to have a sane and stable dev environment
We have Linuxbrew. Homebrew but for Linux. Battletested by countless devs previously using MacOS.
Come join us.
I’m not us gaming though I do dev work and what have you
Bazzite isn’t really for you. Bazzite is a gaming 1st distro. You probably want a more normal general use distro.
Not true. I can even develop Linux device drivers on it after figuring out modules signing. Basic stuff if you ask me. Bazzite is as good for developers as any other distro.
Don’t agree with this. I do dev work in bazzite without any issues. Just spin a distrobox and that’s it. Also it’s better that usual dev environments, just like a python env is better than using native os python.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. There’s better distros out there.
Especially when you have no interest in gaming.
If you have no interest in gaming and want a modern development environment there’s Aurora/Bluefin. Bazzite is just those with gaming bits added on.
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as i understand it, bazzite is very gaming-oriented.
I have Bazzite on an HTPC. It’s Fedora but you can’t use DNF only Flatpak. I personally wouldn’t use Bazzite on my main PC. The gimmick with Bazzite is it’s ideal for entertainment appliances, it’s as close to SteamOS you can get forking Fedora Kinote.
Bluefin and Auroa are for you, changed how I program and organise, our you can make your own template and just pop everything you’re missing in the containerfile similar to how nix pkgs works
I’m a huge fan of Aurora, the least popular ublue desktop OS. Bazzite is great, too. But I prefer Aurora.
Hell, even my wife uses it and has no complaints.
If you don’t mind a learning
curvecliff, NixOS is great for development, and I haven’t had any issues gaming either.Recommending someone who’s curious about Bazzite to maybe check out NixOS instead is… Certainly something lol
Bazzite is part of the Universal Blue project, which is basically three distros based on Fedora Silverblue.
Bazzite - gaming focus Aurora - KDE desktop Bluefin - Gnome desktop
Look up the universal blue site and you’ll see more about them.
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I use Bazzite for devwork too, I do use distrobox though which allows me to get proper dependencies without layering more onto the system image.
Bazzite has a developer version. Not sure what the differences are though. It’s on their site.
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distroboxes are incredible and distrobox expose is legitimately the coolest thing I’ve seen in ages. I have protonge and proton tricks which every game uses installed in a distrobox, and via distrobox expose my host can use them without any any other setup. it’s awesome.
same thing goes for any of my dev tools. i was just shocked about the ability to expose commands and have it be seamless enough for games.
bazzite is an excellent all-round linux distro for contemporary spec computer (gpu, >=16GB ram)
i use it for rust and c# dev work using distrobox. all gui ide’s and tooling run in the containers with excellent performance
i also layer a handful of packages on the “immutable” or atomic base os for some carefully chosen tools i want. the base os is generally well fitted out
very highly recommend as daily dev driver and also gaming
I use Bazzite for my HTPC (AMD NUC).
For a “set it and forget it” gaming console experience? It is awesome. It feels like I already have a GabeCube under my TV (that I bought for probably half the price…). And when I have to do more complicated things than “run the update once a month”, I just ssh in from either my desktop or laptop.
But… it is an immutable/atomic distro. So if the packages you want to add are flatpaks or appimages? You are probably fine. Otherwise? You get into a mess where you are adding packages to your layers (?) and kinda feel like you are playing with fire. I did that to get iperf3 installed to test some networking upgrades and it was mostly painless but it was also a really bad experience versus
sudo dnf install iperf3. And… even on machines where I spend 90% of my time ssh’ing into servers, I still tend to want to install a good amount of local packages as a developer.So my suggestion would be to stick to Bazzite for gaming first platforms and continue to use whatever distro you like (Fedora for the win!) for “real” computers.
Also, if you aren’t as annoyed by atomic distros as I am, I would still be wary of Bazzite. They have a lot of different SKUs and I don’t care enough to try to parse what each one does. But the common use case is to basically treat a machine like a Steam Deck… which means you boot into Big Picture with essentially no login screens or a REALLY insecure pin code. And then you switch to desktop mode with a single click.
There are ways to harden that (and very much an argument of whether you need to harden a machine in your home). And Linux, generally, has very good protections by actually requiring auth for
sudo. But I already feel sketchy that I am logged into Steam/GoG on a box with almost no protections. But I also live in an environment where I don’t have to worry about someone buying 10k in fortnite bucks on my TV.You can use distrobox/distroshelf to set up a container with a regular distro and install packages in that instead of layering; if a package installs a GUI application you can export the application and it will show up in your applications menu.
And you can similarly do most/all of your dev work in a container that you spin up with a
podmanalias (fuck hashicorp with a rusty metal pole but damn if Vagrant wasn’t awesome). Hell, there are a lot of arguments that you should.It inherently becomes a question of what your primary use case for a machine is and how often you spend fighting it to accomplish that. And, personally, I run Linux so I DON’T have to fight my OS. Which… is really weird when you think about it but holy crap Windows and Mac are annoying.
Immutable OSes are amazing for corporate environments and HTPC/Gaming computers are another solid use case. But if your primary focus is whether you can be a developer (as indicated by the doomemacs ask)… you are gonna be cranky.
Even Flatpaks get annoying sometimes during dev work. Yes I do need to talk to that device. Yes I know the risks. It’s ok. It’s just a microcontroller. Yes I know what I’m doing. It’s not going to hurt you. I wrote it!
Thank goodness for flatseal. If I were to do it again, I would probably do it the “old fashioned” way.
Bazzite has a Desktop image explicitly to cover your last issue. The SKU picker has a “Do you want Steam Gaming Mode?” question and explains that it’s intended for less secure single user/HTPC setups. If you say no, you’ll get the standard Desktop image with a standard user login like any other distro.
The solution for packages is do it in a container, that way its easy and doesnt involve layering more stuff.
Dev work in the uBlue family (and yes I use bazzite for dev) leans heavily on distrobox (think development containers). Took a bit to adapt but now I think it’s the ducks nuts. Because you decouple the dev environment from the main, immutable OS you get a lot of wins, especially if you work with a lot of different projects as you can setup distroboxes specifically for each. AI code that only works with specific drivers / libraries / python with instructions only for Ubuntu or Arch, no worries, make up a distrobox, when you’re finished archive it and spin it up later if needed. If you’re only working one project on say LTS or something it’s going to be much less of a win, but for the flexible developer it’s a godsend.
As to doom emacs or whatever, I have a post install script for distroboxes that sets up my preferred environment for the big 3 (Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu), it’s not hard. Very much a kill your darlings philosophy.
ETA Because of this workflow it really doesn’t matter what the host OS is, so it may as well be something I can game on, and I’m fond of the Fedora relative stability with sharp, but not bleeding edge.
Is there really zero windows benchmarks for comparison in this entire video?
big bars are from the video. small bars are from https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/amd-needs-just-shut-amd-radeon-rx-9060-xt-16gb-gpu-review in july
I do want linux to gain market share, but this stuff is important. Eagle 5060 can’t even run Dragons Dogma 2 really on linux at 1440p max settings, but can handle it on windows at 1440p max settings. Doesn’t apply to me… but this is why we need to see the parity.
9070xt seems fairly close, compared to nvidia
FWIW, Gamers Nexus specifically said during the video multiple times not to compare the results between Linux and Windows as they aren’t apples to apples in data.
Sure, and you can never have something be apples to apples when the entire architecture simply works differently between the two, unless you have some kind of external hardware monitor.
It doesn’t matter though. Imperfect comparisons are ten thousand times better than no comparisons at all, especially when entertainment is on the line!
Only a dead man gets in between me and my entertainment.
Sir, this is a funeral.
Yes. They were very concerned about head to head comparisons because the tools for measuring FPS and stuff works differently.
I’ll also add on that there are a LOT of blog posts and youtube shorts about “Game X is 20% faster on Linux than Windows!!!” that everyone loves to regurgitate. And the reality is that it was a single outlier or it all boils down to Steam distributing “good enough” shaders to Linux but not Windows (and let’s not get into the weeds of why).
Whereas GN, especially since “All New Data” a few years back, have very heavily focused on reproducible and “good” data. That is why Steve basically apologized for not having error bars or having what looks like messy data for a few of those runs. And they’ve done entire videos on their testing methodology that often includes MANY runs to normalize out the noise.
So without being able to explain exactly why? I doubt they will EVER put Windows and Linux data on even the same page of their website. But… someone who cares will be able to see trends.
And yet there’s still LTT forum idiots posting on how “Steve is just running a drama channel”.
GamersNexus’ normal GPU benchmark videos are to help gamers compare GPU performance on various games to determine what they should purchase for their needs. With this new video, they are now providing the same service for Linux Gamers going forward.
The goal of this video was not to compare Windows performance to Linux performance. There are videos that exist which do that, if that is what you’re were hoping for.
If we want to convince the windows crowd that linux is a viable alternative, we really need the comparison to show the difference isn’t so bad.
I’ve seen the ancient gameplays video you linked, but there is very little out there for linux vs windows benchmarks that are of high quality. Most videos tend to be incredibly amateur. I really hoped they would throw in a couple of composite charts with windows vs linux results since GN has all this data already and for a simple summary it shouldn’t have been much work at all. Instead I need to look at multiple videos.
What it needs is for the rig you have now to be basically playable. If it’s playable on Windows, it should be playable on Linux. Losing a couple of fps is frankly not a big deal if it’s still overall playable.
Setting aside some anti-cheat issues, it mostly is. Nvidia has some abysmal inconsistencies in a few titles.
I know first hand that if you have a great rig, things are fine. 9800x3d + 9070xt can play anything, anticheat willing :P
It’s still important to see the difference though imo. The more it becomes a meaningful metric the more software developers will consider it. Especially if the western gaming publications start publishing it. It’s the metric of “Is this game shit because the devs haven’t bothered to look at how it performs in wine?” ProtonDB is a start, but still lacks non-steam titles and it isn’t prominently shown in places where it ought to be, like steam store pages. The closest thing to a linux compatibility check on a steam store page is if it’s supported by the deck. Tons of games I play aren’t really suitable to the deck but run wonderfully on linux.
Plus the 5060 example is a good illustration as to why it’s important to see this stuff. On at least one game it’s practically unplayable on linux, but runs basically fine on windows at the same settings. These scenarios are exceedingly few, but the cheaper, weaker GPUs are the ones that sell the most.
If linux market share continues to increase we will see more and more linux native builds and the situation will improve substantially. It’s already a wonder that wine works as well as it does, way better than just a few years ago anyway.
I’ve seen the ancient gameplays video you linked, but there is very little out there for linux vs windows benchmarks that are of high quality.
The video I linked is 2 months old, only focuses on graph data (no gameplay videos) across both AMD and NVidia cards and multiple distros. It’s quite high quality IMHO. Are you confusing it with something else?
EDIT: I just realized you’re referring to the name of his youtube channel. D’oh!
I just threw it on the family laptop to give it another life. So far it’s great, and I would honestly suggest it as a regular user desktop system. My kids will be fine with it, so would my mom, and any of my non-tech-savvy friends.
Personally I probably won’t switch from my beloved LMDE, but I’m also a greybeard nerd who’s set in my ways.
that’s how I started 15 years ago… put it on a netbook just to try it and loved it… showed the wife and she said “it’s coooler than windows” (loved her more from that day)… windows never entered my house since
How is Bazzite with Waydroid?
I am looking to change my Sons laptop from Mint; he is using Minecraft education for some things at school. It is an older dell laptop; but has plenty of power for a 10yo kid.
Not very difficult to find, it is supported https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Waydroid_Setup_Guide/
I’m of a few minds on this.
First and foremost: I am a huge Gamers Nexus fan and think Steve et al are a great complement to Wendell when it comes to the decade of Year Of The Linux Desktop. And I love that they actually addressed the elephant in the room where… quite often you actively don’t want to use the linux binaries for a game.
But I do think that having Linux as the second class benchmarks are inherently going to cause problems. Assuming they stick to doing a batch every couple months, that… okay, ain’t nobody actually buying hardware unless they have to. But still. And this was apparently collected during one of the months where nVidia was a complete shitshow. But Dragon’s Dogma 2 completely breaking is the kind of thing where… look, I became WAY too aware of exactly how denuvo registers a machine while I was debugging that. I was able to get DD2 to run beautifully on my PC but… as a HUGE DD1 fan even I think I wasted my life doing that (would do it again though).
But I keep thinking of how many Influencers have done a variant of “tech isn’t fun anymore”. And… it kind of isn’t. But from the editorializing from Steve et al over the past year or so, it is clear they are excited that things are actually changing sometimes week to week and so many of these problems are ACTUALLY solvable by users. Sometimes it is trivial (check protondb for what settings) and sometimes you find yourself going down a rabbit hole of just how bad the Nioh 2 PC port actually was.
I suspect this ends with the vast majority of outlets embracing “XBOX For PC” in a year or two… and Steve looking even more like the crazy old man of PC reviews. But I do think this will go a long way towards helping the fence sitters get away from MS.
when it comes to the decade of Year Of The Linux Desktop
🤣🤣🤣
Quarter century, but who’s counting really 😆
solving anti-cheat would basically seal the Dingus
If the anti-cheat is client-side, that’s a solved problem, thanks to avoidance.
What I don’t get is “easy anti cheat” seemed to work fine for elden ring (provided you created an empty file when SotE dropped and you didn’t have it). I have seen next to zero cheating in my experiences. Although I do realize souls type multiplayer is very different than competitive FPSs.
cheating absolutely ruins a lot of my favorite fps games. many of them are unplayable unless you have some well moderated private server to play on
souls type multiplayer is very different than competitive FPSs
extremely so. yes good talk thank you
The way I solve anti-cheat is by never playing games that require it.
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The majority of multiplayer games do not require kernel level anticheat. I play almost exclusively multiplayer games I just don’t play the dumb mainstream ones like fortnite or destiny
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Kernel ac is pretty much the only one that doesn’t work. The vast majority of other anti cheats work perfectly fine under proton.
Like I said I play almost exclusively multiplayer games on Linux if that wasn’t clear, the only ones that don’t work are things like valorant, destiny, fortnite that are using kernel ac
No, plenty of multiplayer games dont have anti cheat systems on the client side lol.
I am just replying to annoy you. ily
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Has an uninformed, awful take, that belittles someone else… then cries the victim when people call him out. Nice
If you need to clarify something to someone in a reply… Also add your clarification as an edit instead of “Edit: OMG read my reply to that other guy”.
Might save your inbox from the… ~3 replies that you apparently can’t handle.
Sidenote: I’d hate to play multiplayer games with someone so fragile.
You’re going to get dogpiled because you’re generalizing and people are calling you out for that. All your edits and bluster, when you could go back and just say you like a specific subset of games that are made by devs that are just lazy/shitty. Voila, maybe then everyone would stop replying with the same comment!
Or, ya know, just keep digging that hole. It’s funny either way.
What? You can play multiplayer games np lol. It’s just shitters like riot games, tarkov, GTA, and those other corpo fucks you can’t play on because they want to harvest your info.
I’m about to delete my comment cause you’re the third person now to respond with basically the same thing and I’m tried of clarifying myself. So just go read my reply to the first person who said something similar to what you did.
Weird you gotta spew blatant lies and misinformation just to service corpo dick.
Plenty of multiplayer games and MMOs are playable on linux. and they prove you don’t need invasive, spyware level access for anticheat.
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I’ve never seen someone buckle under so little pressure
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You could have just said you were wrong and moved on. Getting all worked up seems to be taking up a lot more energy.
Just don’t take Internet discussions too seriously, friend. Sometimes I’m like you. I will force a topic, it doesn’t go the way I didn’t expect. So I have two options: continue, because the activity is interesting, or just say “fuck it, life is too short”, and move on. Both are okay.
So what? I’m at work and I don’t have the mental energy to address all this shit, on top of my job duties.
Guy spends time arguing pure bullshit and propaganda, but doesnt have the mental energy to handle being called out and suddenly pretends hes such a poor, oppressed victim.
what a fuckin joke, lol.
i want to play dayz tho
DayZ runs fine on Linux though
Just play something else. There’s literally hundreds of thousands of games out there that require no anti-cheat.
Just play something else
no thanks I’m good
oh okay. yw. gg.
Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game. And in principle anticheat will never fully prevent cheating short of pointing a camera at the user and watch them the whole time they are playing.
I hope Linux community can push back. This whole thing is idiotic and harms the consumers.
Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game.
Lots of games support anti-cheat in Linux. It’s critical to note that anti-cheat in general is not the issue.
Kernel-level anti-cheat however is. It’s a massive security issue and something that everyone, including Windows users, should roundly reject.
No, all client side anti cheats are bad and won’t work. The user space ones are still privacy risks and most importantly is absolutely useless against someone who is determined to cheat.
It’s solved, they just refuse to enable it
I appreciate the work they are putting into this. I think we will see more linux adoption in the future as microsoft keeps doing all the things it has been with windows 11.
Me looking at these benchmarks like I’m about to play anything other than FTL.
I’m on my 3rd all achievement run of Into the Breach. Subset is God tier.
Quite possibly one of my top 5 games.
My gripe with this kind of game is that i quickly get a mod list of 300 and then it takes so much effort. Especially with Steam auto-updating the game, despite making accumulating mods so much easier.
Oh god, you’ve just given me a glimpse into my future. I’m currently plowing through Multiverse, and I’m tempted to add something else. Must… resist…
But they are all essential!! All fixes or features that should be vanilla.
AMD is more stable in games where Proton/Native Linux builds have weird issues, sometimes leading to a 9070xt leading a 5080 (even beating a 5090 in like starfield but like, lol.) Raytracing still heavily prefers Nvidia.
Does not directly compare to windows benchmarks. Low V-ram causes failures. Some native versions for linux are actively worse than running windows through Proton Loading Shaders before launching game can take long (longer on Nvidia cards), and can be required very often.
Suggest watching the last 10m where they talk about these issues if you don’t have time for the whole video.
I really like that now some Content Creators are working on providing useful information for Linux gamers. Especially information like bad Frame pacing or “unreasonable” bad performance for some certain games for certain hardware is a very important information to make a good decision when buying a card.
Me personally I am not very interested in the performance comparison between Linux and Windows. I choose Linux as my daily driver for specific reasons, and game performance was not a high priority. But knowing which Hardware might have strange performance problems compared to other Hardware if I wamt to game is always a very nice thing.
I liked that the Intel B580 was included in the charts. This gave me some usefull information for comparing it to a AMD 9060 XT. Only thing I am missing is if it is the 8GB or 16GB version of the Sapphire Pulse. But I did not check their Blog/Site post yet.
I forget as I wasn’t looking for intel, but If it ran stuff, it was likely the 16GB, and if it was excluded often for not running higher resolutions it was probably the 8GB, as they did mention the lower ram cards had weird issues in some games and simply crashed on load.
Me personally I am not very interested in the performance comparison between Linux and Windows.
Very fair, it’s not really the reason I made the jump either. I would like to see that tackled at some point though, perhaps with some external recording setup to eliminate the apple/orange comparison issues between benchmarking tools.
I switched about a year ago, and was remarkably impressed to see performance gains or only minor decreases in everything I compared, when running my own benchmarks. I’d love to see that result more widely reported, and also academically to see it validated better than I can, across more hardware and games and with better methodology.
Even if not though, really glad to see Gamer’s Nexus taking it seriously and giving us some of the same access to information as we would have comparing hardware for a Windows config. Definitely wishing them the best as they explore automation and even more tooling to make this better.
gaming has really been flawless, in my experience, the past year on proton.
I had a lot of issues playing games in the past, that were usually resolved with proton updates or switching to GE Proton… but the past year? I’ve had zero issues playing anything. The past hear has been so smooth as to, honestly, make me forget I’m playing on linux from time to time.
The only real issue I have left is fooling around in single player games (Which i have beaten many times and just futzing around in to play with, and NOT in any way impacting any kind of online play… hell, the games I’m futzing around in don’t even have online components) with cheat engine/save editors/etc… For some reason recently cheat engine/pince has stopped working, even on games i used to use it on, and cant seem to even find the game memory addresses anymore… and trying to get windows based save editors and stuff installed has been kinda painful… and certain mods, like for Cyberpunk, I’ve never gotten to work. Minor side issues most people wont ever run into. Which is why its understandably still difficult. get shit running like butter, than worry about edge cases and shit like this.
100% this. I’ve been on Linux longer than Steam has, and I’m not changing anytime soon. I’m probably also not going to buy Nvidia (I value FOSS drivers), but maybe I will if the performance gap is significant enough.
If nividia just dropped a driver the quality of their windows one randomly one day. I would expect like 70%+ of the Linux community would suddenly be buying a Nvidia card no questions asked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOx4_8ajZ8&t=2746
I’m not sure I quite understand the issue Steve has with things updating when adding new cards.
Sure, updates during a single benchmark series is a problem but what is the issue with the system being updated for the next benchmarks?
Proton/amdgpu/Mesa receiving updates is no different than installing newer “Game Ready” drivers when a new GPU comes out.
I assume they don’t go out of their way to install older (potentially incompatible) drivers on Windows just so they can compare two separate benchmarks.
Besides that, after disabling Flatpak and rpm-ostree updates in Bazzite, the only remaining variable is Proton. Which should be easily fixed by manually copying a fixed Proton version to their compatibility tools and using that.
I switched to Linux when I bought a 9070xt. They had only been available for a couple of months.
I had to tinker with mesa stuff to be able to play ; otherwise my system didn’t understand I had a GPU and games just wouldn’t start.
Without re-testing their entire suite of cards for every new card review (which is cost prohibitive), performance changing from updates would make the comparisons between cards less useful, as it cannot be determined if the newer card being tested is better or worse purely on the merits of the hardware itself, since newer software may be artificially making it look better or worse than the tested cards that came before, and thus the actual integrity and usefulness of the testing comes into question.
They are trying to assemble a like-for-like dataset that doesn’t require their entire catalog of cards to be regularly retested to ensure that it remains like-for-like. Keeping all the software the same across tests ensures that they can add new data piecemeal and still retain an apples-to-apples comparison.
That makes sense.
So the best option seems to be to note updates for newer cards down until the automated testing can be done on Linux as well.
AFAIK, It’s not an issue of automated testing, and I don’t believe they re-test all their cards on Windows with every new review either. Instead, they maintain the same versions of software on Windows as well until enough time has passed and enough updates have piled up that they do finally re-test everything with new games to create a new dataset to compare against. They’re trying to do the same methodology on Linux.
Instead, they maintain the same versions of software on Windows as well until enough time has passed and enough updates have piled up that they do finally re-test everything
I’m not that involved with their testing procedure but doesn’t that put newer cards at a disadvantage?
They lack any sort of driver optimization if the release drivers are never installed.
That’s a good point. I went back to the video to rewatch it, and turns out I totally missed where they said they only freeze things during a testing phase, then unfreeze it after they’re done and allow updates to commence as normal.
They mentioned that due to Linux receiving more frequent updates often with meaningful performance improvements, they’ll have to throw away older data and re-test more often on Linux, as Windows doesn’t really change much in performance between updates. So I would guess that they would use release drivers with new cards, and likely would only re-test their entire suite if the release driver also gave a big performance boost on older cards.
I switched to Linux a while back for gaming and I am happy with it. There were a couple initial issues getting the sound and screen colors configured correctly and I did lost a few frames, but it seems to be improving.
Still some games I can not get to work on Linux, such as Sacred 2 and some other older ones. Probably just a lack of knowledge on my part. Still no US tax prep software that I trust for Linux, though.What tax prep software do you use? I thought they had all gone to just webapps at this point …
Maybe they mean for a business?
H&R Block. They still used a downloaded app last year.
Try free tax USA next time. It’s what we use!
such as Sacred 2
Where are you installing it?
Maybe this helps? https://www.protondb.com/app/225640#lTflZjszpq
I was trying to run it from steam. I tried a while back, looks like support has gotten much better.
At 3:27: “Linux still isn’t for everybody.”
Please stop saying this! Linux is for everybody. It’s Windoze that isn’t because that’s where the exceptions lie. E.g., it’s only some people that need 3ds Max or some other niche proprietary software that isn’t supported on Linux. Conversely, the majority of the population simply uses the browser for email, videos, simple administrative tasks, et cetera, for which Linux is perfect and better than anything M$.
Hypothetically, let’s say Linux Mint came preinstalled on every computer instead of Windoze. People would lose their shit if through an update the UX suddenly became like Windoze.
Linux isn’t for everyone, this isn’t a false statement, it’s 100% true. I consider myself more tech savvy than the general population and I have had to do a LOT of troubleshooting on every Linux install I tried, for things that should have just worked out of the box, and I needed help from friends who are much more tech savvy (people who deal with servers for a living and their hobbies are setting up NAS servers and messing with tech in general) and they all had some trouble with some issues I was having, like for example a Bluetooth USB adapter not working that on windows was just plug and play, and it turned out that the GUI that came with mint just didn’t actually change any settings, and I had to go to the terminal and type the commands to directly control the Bluetooth stuff. I can deal with all of these and other issues, but my dad who has to be reminded how to download a picture from whatsapp on his laptop to send through his email could never deal with Linux, something would pop up every single day and he would need someone to help him. Hell, I installed libre office for him to use and he kept having issues with it, his documents wouldn’t show up, they would not be saved properly or where he wanted, would lag a lot, updates would be super slow and that’s ignoring stuff like the GUI differences that made him constantly have to stop and search for what he wanted. I ended up installing office and cracking it for him to be able to keep messing with his text documents and excel sheets
If Linux is to become the OS for everyone, it needs to become much more foolproof, and currently it is not that
That is some flawed logic my friend. Linux is for everyone that doesn’t need those exceptions, of which there are many, therefore it isn’t for everyone. However, you can use linux the rest of the time.
Linux is more for everyone than Windoze is.
No it isn’t, Windows has got a ton of developers making sure non technical users don’t get stuck easily, and it mostly just works. The linux desktop is just of inferior quality, and fragmented like hell. “Linux” doesn’t even exist when you talk about the desktop, which of the hundreds of distros are you talking about? each with their own undocumented annoyances and problems regular users will just get stuck on. A nightmarish landscape of package managers, or just installing packages. For all the correct annoyances about apple/windows walled gardens, they got one thing right: if it says it runs on windows/mac, it’s extremely likely to just work for you. If it says it runs on linux, is it on the package manager your distro uses? who knows. If you can just download the package, will it work? who knows. You know what i don’t have to worry about if i find a windows app? If it will run on windows. Maybe with truly ancient apps it can be an issue, but even there the backwards compatibility they offer is pretty insane.
You can live in your imaginary world where “Linux is awesome”. But i see myself, and colleagues who’ve grown up with computers (millenials, so the generation that actually had to use them), that give linux a try, and it’s just a freaking nightmare. From endless distro choices that boil down to “pick your poison”, as there will always be something bad about them, and things you really want that don’t work, to all kinds of silly & annoying issues. (a colleague that’s really technical now had the privilege of encountering an issue with fedora based distros that for some reason fails to properly install grub. So you run through the entire installer, and at the end you have a pc that doesn’t boot. It’s a known issue on certain configurations, they haven’t fixed it yet. You know what doesn’t happen with Windows/Mac? such things)
I have 7 devices running various distros right now. 4 Pi’s, 2 PCs and a laptop.
#1 reason linux isn’t my daily desktop. Want to install [thing]. Thing doesn’t work. Doesn’t (build, install, configure, make, whatever). “MAKE” not installed. What? Install MAKE. Still doesn’t work. Wrong permissions. Doesn’t offer error messages so you know why it doesn’t work. Missing dependency. Install dependency. Still doesn’t work. No documentation other than forums full of other users with the same problem and the solutions are: 5 different ways to do the same thing that don’t apply to your distro or version which has changed 5 major versions since the answer was valid. Gave up and installed a different distro. A long set of instructions that, even when followed precisely, only works 20% of the time. Don’t use SUDO to install? but SUDO is the only way it works! Software has no GUI, command line only. Doesn’t work on your distro even though documentation says it does. Even if it’s available in a package manager in the distro you have doesn’t mean it will work. Spend hours chasing down ways to make it work and finally give up.
I love linux and the ability to get under the hood and do whatever I want with it. When it works. But it ABSOLUTELY is not for everyone.
Same here, i’ve got plenty of devices running linux, and i might give it a chance again for my daily driver, but i know it will be a complete pain in the ass, and waste a lot of my time…
Still, it is okay for a big channel to avoid inciting fomo. Being a late adopter is also okay. Linux has enough media coverage to be found once you are ready for change.
Linux has enough media coverage
Nothing personal, but the hell it does.
Gaming will be the drive to get more people to use Linux and I’m enjoying the trajectory it’s on.
I’m so happy to see some big channels doing these Linux tests. I know it’s probably way more difficult since there are thousands of distros to try!
You don’t need to test every distro.
Honestly you could capture 90 percent of the market with just arch and Debian/Ubuntu.
You could add 2 or 3 of the gaming focused distros for comparison however since they tend to be built on top of the two above things are more likely going to vary based on configuration more than which distro or de you are using.
Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go. Debian is just not present on gaming set ups, Arch is close to what Valve is doing and Ubuntu has like 69 downstream distros.
I am a Debian user, and I think you are 100% right :)
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This is fucking benchmarking… You don’t benchmark a 5090 with crysis 1. That would be objectively stupid.
So you are actually correct your use case literally is not real gaming for the purpose of the context.
I would be amused by some DOOM benchmarks. Let’s see how many zeroes we can get before the FPS counter breaks!
Before I say anything, I think Gamer’s Nexus only testing with Bazzite makes a ton of sense. It would be silly to expect them to test with Windows S, N, Pro, LTSC, etc as well.
Lets be real, Ubuntu/Arch is the way to go.
The distinction between Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian are pretty minor as far as gaming goes. They are all considered the same family for a reason.
Debian is just not present on gaming set ups
Linux Mint (a Debian-based distro) and Ubuntu (also Debian-based) are extremely popular in gaming setups. In fact, the steam hardware survey has Mint 22.2, Ubuntu Core 22, Ubuntu 24, and Mint 22.1 as the second, third, fourth, and fifth most common Linux OSes.
While true, the issue is that Debian release cadence is such that they will always be “behind” kernel and wine wise.
Also they are more purist and less likely to facilitate proprietary bits. Last time I tried wine a lot of apps didn’t work because they had no work to enable non-free fints So they may have the same general packaging strategy, but the vintage of content and scope are distinctly different from more aggressive distributions.
Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.
Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks and making choices that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.
The vast majority of the use of arch at this point is complete out of the box… Arch hasn’t been a diy distro any more or less then fedora or Ubuntu for a few years at this point.
Between endeavour cachy and steam os. Diy arch is basically not really a thing for gamers. It’s a meaningless concern.
With archinstall, I largely agree. However, you still need to make a lot of choices. Which kernel branch? Which filesystem? Enable swap? Which desktop environment? And other choices that I forget, it’s been a few uses since I used Arch.
Gamers Nexus is very clear they want to avoid making decisions. They want to stick as close as possible to as possible, but that’s tricker since Arch doesn’t have defaults for those, unlike Bazzite. Bazzite uses the Fedora kernel (which follows the latest stable); btrfs; zswap; desktop environment they do provide a choice between KDE and Gnome, in which case is easier to choose KDE since it’s what Valve is pushing.
Garuda is Arch. You just need to get the right download for your graphics card and choose your desktop environment. It’s basically painless at this point.
It already includes all the gamer stuff and comes preconfigured for performance.
They don’t test all the windows varieties either. 10, 11, 23h2, 25h2, home, pro, N, …
