Setup a Linux Gaming PC | Live | Install - Config - Gameplay

alright guys today I'm doing something a little different um I wanted to do a livestream for this mainly for a couple reasons I always get in the comments Linux is not good for gaming and I just don't think this is true a lot of times a lot of people just can't figure it out or there's little nuances so that's why I kind of wanted to do a livestream just saying hey brand-new PC or this is actually my studio PC but I've done some tweaking to it upgraded the processor we got a rise in seven now some other things to it because I wanted to make like a gaming PC out here in the studio and I wanted to do it live because so much of it there's little tweaks I do little things that when you set up a PC it's hard to document every piece of it so it's gonna be a long live stream but it be something that you can even even like a Windows user could refer to and go okay so I'm not crazy it's not super easy to set up or maybe it will go off with that hitch but I've never actually installed an operating system regardless of what it is Linux Windows Mac whatever it might be there's always something that happens and anybody that's watched the channel for extended periods of time I mean when I installed Debian I had a bad USB thumb drive of all things and it literally took like two hours to go through bunch of failed installs so yeah we're gonna see how this goes but I always wanted to do this live so let's jump into it I'm gonna start on the windows box and we're gonna go directly into making the ISO I'm gonna show you the tool I use to make it so this should be pretty easy and then we're gonna plug that in and we're gonna do it on bare metal so this is gonna be a virtual machine it's not gonna be any of that you're gonna actually seek specifically what I'm seeing on my screen so you could easily follow along and and know don't ever use gen to never listen to those content comments Sebastian that's horrible I did it on one live stream it was it was a disaster so with that let's jump over to my primary screen you're gonna get a little inception effect because this is gonna be my stream box that we make the actual thumb drive so we're gonna use this thumb drive because I know it's good all right that's plugged in see if it pops up here and go over the primary screen and pull up chat so with this we should have on the port I actually use this for a button to on the last one but we're gonna do man djaro spin so I've already downloaded the ISO here I went to Manjaro org forward slash download it's been a while since I use Manjaro but I wanted to stay on the arch based Linux side of things because I seem to get a little bit better performance on an arch based distribution however it does add a little layer of complexity compared to using just pop OS so the most user-friendly gaming distro out there is probably pop OS made by subsystem 76 but for this one we're gonna use Manjaro just because I want to stick with Arch on this studio PC I use Debian based install or distribution inside for my main production machine but out here I kind of like having both so I don't get rusty in one or the other so with that I've already downloaded this into my downloads folder which will check it out we're gonna do this version of man jar which would be already downloaded we're gonna be using Rufus which it's a Windows only utility but I think it's really easy for a newbie to grab this utility just Rufus ie and then go from there and let's launch into Rufus and get this thing done so let's uh I think I have my next cloud instance on here and we'll pull up Rufus I think it's in Tools here yeah so we'll pull up Rufus 3.3 and we're gonna select that ISO so we launch into this I just downloaded the portable version so you don't even have to install it so let's select this from our downloads folder and off we go guys so we'll see how long this takes and okay here we go so this is the last time we're gonna be on Windows for those at home know that when you install Linux and you don't test it out using like a live install you will be probably erasing your current installation so always be wary about that always do think of live as a test and then if it says install you're gonna probably be wiping out your drive but we're gonna see that in this as well as it copies all these files over mint so Frank like mint and pop OS so the couple things that you get with mint and a pop OS which I always recommend are very good for a newbie mint doesn't have as many customizations as pop OS so like II sync and in some other complex things that we're gonna go into and this install isn't really done by default in in this one so really important to know okay Caitie ISO writer is available for Windows I did not know that GB yeah the the problem with that so by default all the system settings are a little bit better in pop os but the interface looks way different so when I made that entire playlist which I might go back into this live stream after it's finished and link it up in the the top here is that Windows to Linux playlist that I made I did Papa West but I changed the desktop environment from gnome which is its default over to KDE because I was really like Katie as a lifetime Windows user it just feels a lot more natural so just know that that's that's one of the big things that happens in this one so all right we got this going this going got this chat on this left-hand side all right we're looking good and I'll answer some questions why this is copy and I'm using USB 2 on this one because I ran out a USB 3 ports my stream and PC is a little old it's using ddr3 and an octa core AMD from I think it's about six seven years old so it's a pretty old data system that's this is actually running on but the new one is gonna be like the new hotness that's gonna be 16 core rise in 2700 with 16 gigs of DDR 4 so once we flip over to the game and machine here and do the fresh install it's gonna get a lot better so please excuse the current format I'll answer some questions here why why we wait are there any major death benefits of using an AMD GPU verson NVIDIA GPU with Linux in terms of gaming that's a great question tedious binary and the answer is absolutely yes and do GPUs rule in Linux compared to Nvidia not so much in performance but because of the setup and the open source nature of AMD it's built into the Linux kernel so there's no drivers to download or install there's just some packages you need like the messages which we'll get into but overall AMD is gonna give you a much better experience because Nvidia still uses proprietary drivers on Linux where AMD has that option but not very many people use that most people use the open source drivers that come baked in and there's no real reason not to use those you don't get any performance decrease or anything by using those AMD things so a the GPUs are fantastic for a linux-based systems Nvidia a lot of times I get questions or problems with people using those and the reason why is they used with proprietary drivers and sometimes they'll install like a newer package that those drivers just really weren't meant for and that can cause some issues so a great question I always recommend AMD GPUs for a Linux gaming PC but hey there we go alright so we are pretty much set here I am gonna flip over we're gonna go over here pull up our deal and we're gonna flip over to the streaming pc now it's all black right now I got to switch everything over but this is gonna be pretty awesome so here we go let's see if this thumb drive does the trick alright here we go come on pop up we're gonna be doing GPT UEFI on this one let's let's make it as complex as possible and we still don't have anything on the boot menu so one second and there we go we're in the BIOS so we have a couple options here in the bio so when we first pull it up yeah I totally dropped it I pulled the Linus on that one we have a couple options so this right here is actually this the same drive we've done so we we actually made our ISO and burned it using Rufus and unto that thumb drive and you have UEFI SanDisk and then you have USB SanDisk how you boot from here is of paramount importance so if we do UEFI that means it's gonna be a UEFI install now this is with windows installations - it's just most people don't realize it because the options just aren't given so when you boot from UEFI it's gonna be a UFE I install I'm gonna just repeat myself and if you boot from USB SanDisk it's gonna be a legacy install this is what determines what your bootloader is gonna be it determines so much so when you're booting this part is really really what you got to focus on so we're gonna do ufi because you if I it's just a little bit harder but it's also newer technology we can do a lot of cool stuff with it so I'm gonna go with UEFI if we have problems we can switch over to legacy and boot from it so very good - very good to know the definitely pay attention to this so we're gonna boot right here and that's actually option number four so um let's see if I can't boot override and we're gonna boot over right into that UEFI unknown file system this is already going so well we're gonna try it one more time it looks like we shouldn't have used Rufus for this but we're gonna see I'm flip why can't everything go easy all right we're gonna try legacy we're gonna try legacy U of I was not working I think legacies gonna give us the same problems but I love it yeah all right so this is a bad us yeah USB burn here USB format CAD I'm cursed I'm absolutely cursed on this all right first time fail that's okay we're gonna re burn our USB Drive and use this so one second all right we're gonna go over to ECHA Nelson I agree with you we're gonna do etcher instead of Rufus so let's pull back to the stream PC and here we are pull our chat over to the right side so it's only gonna be a minor annoyance and purgatory burn this I think I already have extra installed hot dog I do so instead of this we're gonna use a program called echar instead of Rufus so we're gonna skip this and select our image apparently I clicked it twice all right go to downloads and we're gonna redo our image large drive continue it's probably something with how large this drive is that probably caused an issue so it's unusually large blah blah yeah okay this is a USB 3 Drive so I could totally see this being an issue but I think Edgar will do a little bit better job than our Rufus counterpart so multiple ways to do this I'm glad we'd do this you need to be drunk for the linux install I know I should be drinking right now right now this is just water and the reason why is it's it's 9 a.m. and I'm not an alcoholic no no matter what the YouTube comments say I don't drink that much Paul say I'm curious why you feel KDE is more windows than cinnamon I don't know if it's more windows I think actually cinnamon feels a little more Windows esque I just like Katie a little better I think a lot of the customizations I just it jives a little bit better with my my workflow so I think KDE and cinnamon are very good for Windows users by no means am I saying cinnamon is not good for a Windows user so totally totally get that man could you please try the new KDE ISO writer in the future GB you got it man I will definitely do the the KDE ISO image writer in the future and if this doesn't work we will be trying it out as well actually if this doesn't work I'll probably switch thumb drives because I don't want a rehash of what happened during the last live stream that happened like four months ago or now it was actually six months ago when I did that live stream and we had a bad thumb drive so if this doesn't boot I'm just immediately switching to another USB Drive because I don't want to spend two hours showing you how to burn an ISO to a USB thumb drive and I'm gonna go through this as well and try to add some timestamps to this after this completes I'm gonna add some timestamps in the comments so people can flip around as well so alright we're getting close to the final flash we'll see if etcher does a better job than Rufus now Rufus is Windows only etcher actually has a Linux counterpart so extra can be done both in Windows and Linux which is a good good thing so I Nelson I'm not sure on my motherboard because it's a first gen Rison I am using this guy right here this is the Rison 2700 not 2x but just the regular 2700 it's really really solid it's probably one of the best bang for the buck out there right now it's got 16 threads eight cores it is extremely fast I think it clocks in at like four point gigahertz or something crazy and also it's only 180 bucks 180 bucks for that kind of performance is incredible so that's why I did it mainly for budget and cost as I'm still trying to keep everything to a bare minimum as far as as far as cost goes but I still I love I love the rights of processors ever since Rison came out I really transform warrant an AMD guy but for the longest time I was just bashing AMD like no other just because well the excavator chips just sucked but we all know that story but ya know ever since risin any of these just been killing it so I just go with whatever's best and that's how I that's how I roll you know if there's a better operating system and there's a better computer component if there's anything I've never stuck on anything I just figure out what that works the best and then I just used that and what how so has the best bang for the buck I won't over spend on a part just because I get a five percent performance increase so that's why I do what I do all right it is unmounting flash complete yay here we go by a news thanks true if this doesn't work drew we're gonna be buying a new thumb drive for sure so yeah we're gonna flip back over to our stream PC we're sitting right here this is from the bad thumb drive we're gonna reboot alright here we go come on daddy needs a new pair of Linux that didn't even make any sense but oh well alright so here we go remember what I said about USB and UEFI this is legacy this is UEFI so here we go we're clicking in oh my god it worked ah so we're gonna boot Manjaro and do this Thank You Hector a fresh install we have our thing I feel like everything's just gonna go really well on this until it doesn't yeah that's just YouTube they delay the chat like crazy person so I really wish it was more up-to-date like you have more real-time interaction that's why I stream a lot on Twitch Monday Wednesday Friday just because Twitch's livestream capabilities are a lot better where YouTube it's more of a presentation and there's this long delay or most times they have an ultra-low latency setting but it doesn't work very well so that's why this is actually a live event I've scheduled so yeah you know laptop I'm using is whatever is basically thrown out at my work I'm using some like really janky hardware when it comes to my laptop I hate laptops I always have late hated laptops so alright so we have our Manjaro here we need to launch the Installer come on launch the Installer and we're gonna go through it now this is a brand new installer since the last time I've done men djaro it didn't look like this so this is actually new for me oh my god are you kidding me did it just reboot I got a black screen here guys are you kidding live installs are great uh all right I'm gonna give it a second I don't think it's coming back though now I did just switch that CPU out so maybe maybe man we're having all kinds of good stuff on this stream happen I tell you all right actually before we go into that let's go into the mint actually let's reboot again I'm gonna look at the system monitor just make sure the thermals are okay a lot of times when you switch out a CPU if you don't properly get good connection with the thermal paste and your heatsink it can cause issues so it's good to always come into hardware monitor run it for a couple minutes but since this pcs been on for five minutes it'd be in 37 Celsius is a really good temp huh so that's not it so it might have been just something with the Manjaro installer it was getting real laggy on me so all right we're gonna give it one go one more go and - let's see what all we got here we're gonna boot back in Kevin I do not use Linux from scratch don't use you if I just boot from the disk if this fails we're gonna switch from UEFI a lot of Linux installations has problems with UEFI it just depends on what type of motherboard you using is it a locked bootloader do you have secure boot enabled there's a lot of things I wanted to do the most problem prone installations just to kind of showcase this so that's kind of something I wanted to do for this so that's why I'm choosing stuff incorrectly just so people can kind of see what's up so we had problems with the first time ago around we're gonna try and zip through this and just do a basic install using UEFI now I'm gonna erase the entire disk here we're gonna we actually are gonna do this one now we're gonna do we have a solid state we have two drives in here we have a solid state and then a two terabyte that we're gonna be used using for gaming so we're gonna put it on the solid state erase the whole disk we're not gonna be using a swap file we have 16 gigs of memory so no swap I'm not also gonna do any encryption on this either so let's go back go forward one more time just to make sure this is what we're setting it's gonna be GPT erase disk always double triple quadruple check this because once you erase this disk that's gone so really important and if you have Windows on here this would completely wipe out your Windows partition so good to know that's why a lot of times when dual booting I like to do three drives in the system actually one drive dedicated to Windows the other Drive dedicated to Linux if you're gonna do dual booting I highly recommend separating the drives out don't use multiple partitions if you can help it because it adds a whole layer of partitioning that is just yeah so what is your name Titus what is this name studio PC password we're gonna choose some super unsecure stuff just suit this is like my studio PC nothing's gonna be on here of any importance that's why I'm not encrypting the drive I'm not using a strong password because this isn't gonna be exposed to the Internet at all it's gonna be just in my you know local network so this should be fun which office suite we're gonna do no office suite this is gonna be a game in PC so this is one of the thing that majare Oh Linux kind of gotten in trouble with so where they did free office by default and a lot of people love Libre Office personally I don't really care we're gonna do no office suite well we can always add it later and we're gonna go ahead and install this on dev SDB it's the Samsung 850 so a little bit older as SSD this is not an nvme so yeah I wish I had a 1 terabyte nvme cyan oh my god that's awesome so let's go ahead and hit install and install now here we go guys I don't know what happened that the first first time around that was kind of weird for it to lock up like that so I'm kind of curious to see what happens this time around if we have any issues but we'll see see V go how you doing man what are you up to today how do I make a live arch USB so I can boot from it it with no live arch USB you can just download the arch ISO which is pretty small I love the vanilla arch ISO and then from there you can use h or or any of the utilities there's a bunch of utilities on Linux or you could just do a straight from terminal a DD command and write the ISO directly to it so there's a bunch of options with with Linux almost everything's native so alright let's see here still gone I'm gonna keep an eye on this if it stays on a percentage too long flip around look to make sure my hard drive lights going crazy and yes we are using you if I not legacy for this guy's because legacy is it almost makes it too simple and like I said for this stream I wanted things to happen so already we've had some bad stuff happened we had one the ISO not getting written properly using Rufus and then we switched over to enter in the Windows and on that Windows program we wrote it now we're able to launch another Manjaro installer so we had that one problem which is good to see that we actually had a lock up as well with the first run of this where it just completely locked up on us so I'll occasionally be moving my mouse around seeing how that goes but so far so good and right now as far as the hardware's int that's in there I'm using it like an old msi risin 1st gen motherboard that has seen I want to say 6 firmware updates so this is a rather cheap system in regards but it has a lot of power so I love this system because this would be the equivalent to probably about a $600 gaming system so the big thing the two major components to this is the Rison 2700 which I already mentioned and then as far as the graphics card in it it's an Rx 580 which are super cheap you can get them for steal I think they're about 180 right now if you can find them and they're just incredible so you know hey it's great so Victor also said here I know how to make an arch USB like you said I want to make a live USB stick I can poo from any PC like Ubuntu live so Viktor like when it comes to arch vanilla harch on the live install all you really can do is boot to terminal so to speak i I've never made a live arch desktop environment off a USB Drive I'm sure it can be done I just I just haven't ever done it so I can't speak to that directly I've always just used terminal for pretty much everything so yeah Geno's G Gnostic I'm probably butchering that name but he said turn off you FBI on your boot and that's a good way to force legacy if you turn off UEFI but I've also had it where it caused issues so be wary about that I think an Intel nook requires you if I'd be on even though they give you the option not to do it alright so it looks like the install is finished that was really quick that was really quick that was like not even five minutes so here we go first boot Manjaro Linux and then we'll start configuration and customization here guys is out found my 580 at offer up for 80 bucks oh my god e that is amazing what a deal all right so we're booting into Manjaro for the first time and this is looking promising all right so here we are we got a freshman djaro instance we're only oh man we're way ahead of the curve were 30 minutes into this livestream and we're already on the desktop this is already infinitely better than our Debian install that's awesome I'm gonna be using Lu trous steam and oh yeah well we'll do some multiple games now I already have another Drive and we're gonna set all this up actually I'm gonna pull up on my other screen here some of the stuff I'll read you guys what we're gonna be doing I did a little prep work prior to launching this livestream because I didn't want to just sit here and fumble around in front of you guys so we install the iOS now we're gonna start customizing the OS so there's a couple things that you do right out of the gate so first off is let me put this down here we're gonna be changing some of the system settings so this is KDE out of the gate it kind of feels weird to me so we're gonna first change this application launcher and show alternatives we're gonna do application menu I kind of like the old school feel something like this and then we're gonna change some of the terminal and keyboard settings and also get rid of some of the junk in here so let's take a look here there's certain things I just don't like so let's uh let's first get my favorite consoles installed so we're gonna go sudo Pac Man s yay now yay is what is used for like aur and some other stuff so I'm gonna install yay real fast and then we can use that instead of pac-man Terminator so I like Terminator a lot for my console as most people that have watched channel for extended periods of time knows so I think someone said I rise in three rise in 3000 user I wish I wish I had the rise in the third gen right now but the second gen such a good deal I mean if you're conscious about money the 2700 is by far the best bang for the buck all right so we got that going now I like to change some of the defaults default applications file manager we're gonna continue to use dolphin terminal we're gonna actually change this to terminator that we just installed okay apply okay and then we need to change some hotkeys I like to make some easy hotkeys so let's go down and find us some shortcuts and dolphin hotkey met at E which let's test that out yeah I met it ease pretty good that's Windows key and E and fun fact about meta e is or Windows key E is on Windows that actually opens up the file browser as well so that's kind of a neat hotkey I'm gonna go ahead and leave that as in it and then I like to have a terminal hotkey which we're gonna go ahead and make a global hotkey for it we're gonna hit apply to this and sometimes this takes sometimes you have to reboot or log out log back in refresh the session before the hotkeys take so we'll probably do that real fast let's see if a simple log out and log back in let's see if that refreshes our desktop let's not launch that in the start hot dog alright so now we got this this looks pretty good now I want to change this so you guys can see what the heck I'm doing so let's go into preferences does it have good GPU support Bucky Barnes ass about Manjaro I would say not really if I'm being honest if you're using a Linux GPU yes if you're using NVIDIA GPU no I don't know of any real arch based install that has like a really awesome Nvidia installer if you have an Nvidia card I highly recommend using pop OS pop OS has like a defect de-facto Nvidia installer and it runs really well with invidious proprietary drivers if you have an Nvidia driver I just there's not I don't really recommend arch that much for it and I know I'm gonna get some hate for that but for a newbie coming over with an Nvidia card I think the Nvidia installer from pop OS will serve you much better than what I'm doing here so that's it's a very good thing though all right we're gonna go mono space because I love I love the mono space font for our browser and then we're gonna go 20 because one I'm blind and 2 you guys can see what I'm doing and there's a couple other changes here I like to make let's go play out and see the colors I kind of like the alien like the green on black I don't know something hacker ish about it I don't know it kind of makes me feel cool and let's get rid of the borders cuz that's just no fun so we have our nice little terminal we can bounce that around the screen go up go down go fullscreen alright yay alright so now let's check out what else we have and what we need to get rid of so the first thing I like to do is just kind of get rid of the junk so ocular I absolutely hate that program so we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and yay are ocular and we're gonna remove that package this is where I just kind of I there's probably a better way of doing this I just kind of like to go through here and get rid of some of the stuff I don't use so all this I pretty much use there's a studio image writer I could probably get rid of that but I'm gonna go ahead and leave it there's a couple other things let's see if contact which is ko in ta CT I hate that that comes with KDE I think it's junk which I don't see it in here and then came a Liz another one I absolutely despise so Kay Mel's pretty bad we're gonna get rid of I think KML is in here we're gonna just try and remove it I did not see it in there so KML yeah I couldn't find it okay nevermind kay mails good so now we've got all this we're gonna do an update so we're gonna do yay - syu you can also do pac-man syu this installer is actually there's only five packages to update that's kind of amazing to me fire oh no Thunderbirds in here we got we got another I hate thunderbird - we're gonna get rid of Thunderbird so I always like to just clean up stuff as soon as you get going so as soon as you get in here do a full update you can use pac-man syu as well but we're gonna remove Thunderbird because I'm just I'm still not a fan of any Linux mail client there's just not one that I'm just like ooh the closest one that I've actually used and actually enjoyed was hurry h IRI it's really good alright so we got this after a update and the first update and everything I like to just kind of give it a reboot just to kind of see how it performs well after removing some stuff I didn't really remove too much here because I didn't really see anything that I'd really just hate so did they remove the discover store - I actually kind of like Manjaro spin-off KDE let's see if they left discover there's no discover store either yeah so Manjaro team looks like they stripped out discover and KML and contact which are my three hated KDE applications that comes in here so good job Manjaro team I hate all those I always end up removing them so we're gonna give it a reboot here guys see what we get what does a Sebastian says run pac-man - Q lowercase e what does that do I've never actually used that that's kind of cool let's do it let's just run random commands that people put in chat just to see what happens Q e that's interesting alright I'm gonna get out of this and we're gonna run it and our terminals so everyone can see this all right pac-man Q e let's make sure we use pseudo for pac-man so this tells us I guess what packages are installed good call so QE kind of gives us a listing of what all's in here so we got some stuff that we can remove Thank You Sebastian for this this looks really good because we can flip through and see if there's any bloat here and strip it out I have never actually used the QE command see you learn something new it's always important to check the comments because you know what there's always someone smarter than you that's what I always say alright so we're good I like honestly there's no packages that flip out to me and I'm like I absolutely have to get rid of this all these look pretty solid out of the gate from here I think we can start customizing this a little more so the first thing we want to do is add our 2 terabyte drive and get it prepped for actually using this so let's take a look here see this right here this Linux data drive that's actually the label I put on that 2 terabyte drive because I put some games already on there so we're not you know sitting you're killing the buffering of this stream by you know downloading a whole bunch of like 20 gigabyte games so I already have some games on there that we're gonna get into but first we need to properly mount this Drive because you know everyone pretty much has a secondary drive that has a bunch of data on it and mounting drives usually you can click on here and get into it but I like to mount everything through fstab so what we're gonna do is launch into our terminal and get that Linux data drive going and yes I do need to do the brave browser as well who is gamer I'll probably do that post install just because I have to do a sync and there's some keys and other stuff that I don't really want to put on the stream so and I know the Braves kind of an obscure browser where most people probably stick with Firefox and Firefox I have no problems against I love Firefox just as much so I just my personal preference is brave now because you know I've been using it for a little bit and kind of like the layout I kind of like how it feels so you know to each his own that's a personal preference so let's first do a sudo blk ID and this kind of tells us what all we have here the one thing we're looking for is this right here these right here are the partitions this right here is the UEFI or the efi partition at the very start the SD b-1s db2 this is where our root filesystem resides and then SDA one is the Linux data so it's really important on that secondary drive if you need to format use gparted and label it I always recommend labeling that second drive because sometimes when you're looking in here later like oh I have my inside piece Eve on my production machine I have three different nvme drives all the same size it is maddening unless you have labels so I always label everything but for this we're gonna grab the you UUID we're gonna just right-click that copy and now we have the UID we're gonna go sudo nano ETCs tab and this is where we're gonna change that mount so we're going to go UUID equals ctrl shift V to paste what we just had we're gonna put this in media /to t be and then this is gonna be an EXT for drive and then for the actual oh it is it a rewrite user exact and I think that's the only options I need I don't like to use defaults on this because I want my user to own this drive if you just say defaults like this right up here what's gonna happen is root is gonna own this drive I want my user to have a whole bunch of rewrite privileges so I like to do rewrite users and then also I want to give it the executable privilege to execute stuff on here so that's that's where those options come in if you don't understand an option don't just blindly copy paste from the interwebs you know you'll have a problem so Thomas well doing a video explaining Linux file system that's actually coming out later this week man exactly on the docket so we're gonna write this out now before we reboot or anything if we're even right now it probably wouldn't boot because that we still have some other stuff to do so let's go into CD media oh we don't even have CD media sudo we're gonna switch to super user I don't like doing this but we're gonna do a super user for just a second just to see oh man there's not even a media directory so we're gonna do that and we're gonna go CD media and then we're gonna make directory - TV do a listing and we need to make that two terabyte drive for us as owner so we're gonna go CH own and we're already running a super user so we don't need to do sudo and we're gonna go Titus : Titus I believe Oh spell help if I spell it right Media two-terabyte and we'll do a listing Al and you'll see that we now own that drive so now we can exit and then we're gonna go sudo mount - a to run the mount command and with this we should be able to go into our browser so what we've done with these commands I went a little quick there but we made that directory made sure it was all right there we made sure we had ownership of it and then that fstab file will mount to it and say hey this person has ownership of it and now we should be able to just open it up without having to use root in anything so very important and let's see here so let's pull this up and we're going to you see the device's Linux data now it has a different icon it's the same icon as are a regular drive this is this drive we click this you'll see we already have this mounted to media - terabyte the cool thing about this is we can come in here and just create a text file so let's say we do txt file just as a test and then just write right to it so this make sure our permissions are solid it's really important you get your permissions in order and good when you do a mount and test everything before rebooting if you see an error after doing mount - a get rid of that line and fstab before you you reboot because you're gonna have a really sad time if you don't tighten tighten tighten tech I like that od three T's all right so we have that secondary drive mountain now and there's a couple commands I like to do and like you see there's no ll which is the long listing is it's Anna bunt so we're gonna just add that because I like this so I like to go dot bash RC from the root and from our home home directory I should say and then I like to do an alias ll equal LS - Al and this kind of gives me that all listing where it shows all hidden files shows who owns the files all that and just kind of does it without having to do that so if we exit relaunch our terminal into an LL you see how it kind of just I just so quick you're just a BAM know what I'm doing so III always love that ll and that that's actually an Ubuntu alias that I really really enjoy that I put on every single distro I have so pretty pretty great so from here we have our two terabyte drive next up we got to make sure multi live is installed what is multi live you ask well any arch based distro and even Ubuntu and Debian based stuff has this they need 32 pits port really game properly so let's double check and see what this is so we're gonna go back into terminal you see why I made that hotkey at the start of this didn't you cuz man use the hell out of terminal alright so we're gonna go sudo nano et Cie pac-man Oh comp I believe all right so this pac-man et Cie pac-man comp for arch based distributors distributions which Manjaro is will come down into multi Lib and by default look at this the Manjaro team already installed this we've actually enabled it by default if you're using the nel arch you need to actually make this tweak manager has done a lot better job since the last time I used it about making a little more user friendly where you don't have to do a lot of these system tweaks which is pretty cool alright so I think from here we can go into installing some really cool stuff so we're gonna put this on the left hand side we're gonna launch into our browser and go over to Lou truces wiki this is kind of how I like to start is just with luke Lutra Sue's wiki of some of the customizations and configurations so DX BK and wine dependencies are probably the first thing let's see DX BK and it says what are the requirements for DX BK wine dependencies which will go into here and will take care of these dependencies first so let's go down to arch right in here we already checked the multi live look at that we already did an upgrade we're good and now we just got to add a couple packages a couple that's a lot of packages all right so we're gonna just paste that into our terminal and hit OK now when you copy it ctrl shift V pace everything in your clipboard directly into your terminal it'll save you some time from having to re-enter that in so definitely use that hotkey and this will grab all these this is mostly the 32-bit libraries that wine needs to really function properly which is great so these are just all the dependencies so we've got those installed we can go back and a Vulcan capable GPU which we have a AMD rx 580 which is awesome and a driver supported by DX BK so we'll go into installing drivers next so click on this and we'll look at our CH base so let's scroll down to our CH we make sure we have multi Lib and then we just have this one line command we need to make sure these these have access so we'll go ahead and install it next all right so now we're installed so we got our drivers installed we have our wine dependencies installed we'll just back out now we have not installed DX BK yet which you don't technically have to but I like to you know is there anything else we need to look at before we get crazy here yeah we already did the install drivers and everything else looks good next up is e Sync East sinks kind of like sometimes this works really well sometimes it doesn't so it just depends on what you got so let's see what Manjaro team did for the you limit so we're gonna go you limit H in so this is really good Manjaro team also did this customization papa wes also does this as well eise Inc by default looks to be enabled now if this is like four thousand right now this is actually 1 million which is great if this was less than you know four thousand or 8,000 or 10,000 eise inc will not work at all it'll not synchronize crap because it just doesn't have the room to grow so Manjaro team re actually enabled this tweak pop OS also does it now if you're running to bun - or linux mint you're gonna have to do east sync so follow Lutra CI so with this we're pretty much done with icing it's kind of been kind of crazy so next let's install steam steam I think it's installer or it might just be steam I think I think arch does I think on debian based systems that steam - installer on arch based systems I think it's just steam ok steam - Manjaro I didn't know there was a custom and djaro version that's interesting I don't I don't know if that's legit or not let's see uh hell it is that's cool alright so now we're downloading an update and steam so we've got pretty much everything set up for the base of the system um we're pretty much ready to do some cool stuff now steam is the first thing I usually go because steam is so user friendly if you're coming to Linux from Windows and you're using steam guess what steams gonna work great like it's gonna work exactly like a dozen windows for the most part because by default they lock a whole bunch of stuff down to where when you click install and play on your games they just install and play so this is great and it does such a good job of this it actually works a little bit better than the windows counterpart like games like fallout 3 will actually function better in Linux then on windows because it uses like an older DX DirectX 9 and then also it uses a lot of dependencies that Linux can get around kind of hacking so to speak where it'll just completely bypass like games for Windows like if there's a games for Windows and it has Linux compatibility it's probably gonna play a heck of a lot better on Linux than it would windows which is hilarious that a Windows game would play better on Linux which that's gonna be more commonplace especially later later in this year and then also early next year there's an ACO compiler coming out that steam and valve have actually put together so that's pretty pretty incredible and that actually gives better performance in Linux on windows games than Windows would give on Windows games because there's not as much overhead and the compiler is a little faster so looking forward to that so we'll see how that takes out I'm not gonna log into steam just yet we're gonna actually install looters now and we're just gonna go looters so Lutra syns installed oh my god all right sorry about that I guess we had a little bit of a spammer in chat he won't be back so all right so with this we're pretty much ready to launch loot hrus and see what we have so we're gonna go loot hrus and we're gonna just go okay I am actually supporter of loot hrus I got on their patreon if you want to support the great things Lutra steam is doing I highly recommend it it's it's completely awesome so first thing I like to do in loot RIS is enable dark theme boom all right let's close that relaunch Lucius and what happened there what happened all right we wrap in this and yeah whatever and now I think we can just launch into our browser and we're gonna go to loot rosette and try to download and install some games now I think we're gonna run these if you want to know where you're installing things to it's good to look in the actual system options before going crazy on looters right now it's the home directory games which is really cool let's see if there's anything else you could also do game mode which is actually really good I probably will install that as well sometimes game mode actually gets poorer performance it just depends on the game so I'm gonna leave this off for now but game modes the thing I actually made a whole video about game mode if you're interested basically what it does is it takes out the governor and also some of the things holding back your CPU lets it open up full-bore and really max out your system which is great so you can get better performance but on some poorly optimized game game mode sometimes can be a hindrance because the game doesn't know how to really utilize your system correctly and can cause some issues so yeah I'm I'm a little bit on the fence most times it's a good good option but I've had had it happen where some games that just didn't perform that well alright let's see here so for this I want to switch this over to a games path on our two terabyte drive but let's see what we have so we already have the games folder over here mmm I'm tempted I think I'm gonna remove both of these guys because I don't really want them but Diablo 3 warframe and World of Warcraft classic I really probably will use these quite often so I think we're gonna go ahead and just rename this one games too now the reason why I don't just do this path in games and overwrite my old ones is because there's some dependencies that certain games need so you can't really just copy them between pcs like I've done here and have them work right out of the box so same thing on Windows you know you can't just install a game and just copy the files over the other computer and expect that game to work some games need some extra stuff so what we're gonna do is independently install warframe world of warcraft classic and then also Diablo 3 so but first we're gonna fix where this is going we're gonna go other locations Linux data and then we're gonna create a new folder called games and hit OK so now it's gonna put it all on that two terabyte drive and we're gonna hit save so I think we can start installing some games this is going extremely well what's up with my time let's let's fix that real fast to why we're here let's configure the digital clock all right we're gonna set date and time we're in Chicago we're gonna hit apply and okay ten all right cool there's always little quirks with any new operating system install so it's really important to kind of pay attention to those way we're gonna go into World of Warcraft we'll do some Wow action first World of Warcraft what are the cool things about how Linux and emulates games is when you copy things over it actually works really really well so we're gonna go and remember install and this is the exact directory we want to go and I'll show you what I'm gonna do once this is finished so I do have a whole bunch of add-ons with my Wow classic which I actually did on a twitch stream and on the twitch stream I actually installed all the add-ins and things that you want some people give the Wow some a bad thing on Linux because it doesn't use the curse installer which in my opinion the curse installer is kind of like malware in itself because of how it integrates into your system so I don't mind downloading all my add-ons and expanding that into the wild directory manually because it just makes a cleaner install so you know to each his own but when I was modding out wow because who plays World of Warcraft with with no add-ons I mean that's crazy talk so you'll get to see this we're gonna launch into this after this installs what's your opinion are the regards of Windows core OS whenever I hear Windows core I think of the server windows core is actually a server product and the windows core was it was a good product it basically what it was is just like a command line only server system so if you're really with PowerShell and command-line you can do it as far as the windows kora as far as a desktop and those types of things I haven't looked into it enough to really tell you this so I just know it from a business aspect alright we're gonna hit continue it's gonna finish install on this yeah you can't can't do Wow with no add-ons that's just that's just crazy it's just crazy talk so alex says Whalen is faster than xorg this is true so some Linux distributions have something called Wayland as the display renderer and others have xorg and it's important to know that when it comes to this xorg works a lot better it has a lot more functionality and it's a lot older but it's also really not made all the the best way Whalen's kind of like the future but it's not a hundred percent fully baked yet for a lot of systems I know on my internal system in there it just really doesn't like Wayland so I'm always defaulting back to X work and not really the only distributions that come with Wayland pre-loaded and out of the gate loaded up I thinks the doora is the one that had it the most so good good point there Alex all right so we have the basis of Wow done now I did not want to spend all of this stream just copying files so what we're gonna do is actually paste this we're gonna call this one - old and we're gonna paste this guy right here and if we're gonna test this out this should actually keep my old settings this is a little bit of a trick to get this up this is where Linux when you're switching operating systems Linux just kind of excels because of how it does the games like when things get installed in Windows it like integrates everywhere like it might be in Program Files there's probably something in Program data there's probably something in its own independent program folder it's probably integrated into the registry then you have all the Start menu files you have I mean it just goes on and on and on where it games integrate into a Windows thing well with Linux everything's bottled up in this nice little container and I already built out my wow I've been streaming it on on Twitch and it's been great I love that install so what I've done is I just took that container and moved it over to the secondary drive formatted this whole thing we loaded up this whole operating system and then I'm just taking that wine container and moving it back into this install after installing a fresh one making sure all those dependencies and things that this system needs to run that bottle or there so it makes instead of downloading 20 gigs and reinstalling everything I just basically pasted it back over now Wow on Windows actually is really good but I'm just saying for games that do have registry entries this this makes things a lot easier so let's see what we get all right yeah that wasn't my email address so alright so we're gonna play a little while here let's see what happens when we boot up and it's connecting this is always a good sign then I go ahead and hit OK and we're in let's see what we get see what the performance is Wow it's not a very demanding game by any means so this should work pretty good as you saw we we started the installation at about nine o'clock after some hiccups with the ISO this is kind of cool that we've already installed all the drivers we've already got everything going and it's only been an hour I didn't think of my wildest dreams we'd be here in an hour so this is this is gonna be a stream we say for a long time on the channel this is very very rare all right so we got all this let's see as far as interest interface options I'm not hearing any sound are you guys hearing any sound let's see okay well maybe you guys are hearing the sound I I'm just not picking it up alright we've got music I guess play a little bit no I don't see you hear anything so let's exit the game I'm gonna just see what our sound settings are all right so we got a couple options here we got HDMI and line out which line out let's crank that bad boy up right yeah that's that's what we're using HDMI we're not really doing front microphone alright what I like to do here is actually disable some devices just to make this a little easier because some of the sound settings same it's true with Windows I like to go through and disable the stuff I just don't really use so let's go and launch into pulse Audio alright let's see if if it pulls up I think this is a little different than what I'm used to but let's see advanced alright so HDMI I'm not doing anything with HDMI we're gonna disable that we're gonna hit okay so now we pull this up and now we got a simple audio setup we got rid of those other devices so it doesn't muck up our the direct thing here so yeah should be hearing that loud and clear and now if we launch back and we should have some good audio yeah sorry guys let me know let me know if this blows out your ears or not it shouldn't I've been watching some of my most of my thing here let's see all right I still don't see anything on my stream for this one let's launch into game oh yeah there it goes all right cool perfect all right so there we go so Wow is working everything's looking good there as far as other games let's see what else we got we got some really unique games in here we'll go ahead and move this to trash is we don't need it go back into our games folder we got Diablo 3 which much the same as wow almost identical I'm not gonna bother with it warframes kind of a weird one so I think we'll probably do a little warframe install action here I don't know if I can get that installed or not but let's let's see this this is kind of an obscure one it doesn't work great on Linux but I still like the game I play it with a Hikari Knight from the community quite often he's he's huge into warframe I'm quite the noob so and let's go warframe yeah we're gonna go ahead and install this standalone version install and install so I haven't shown any steam here but steam is actually a lot easier than this which is hilarious because I think this is pretty darn easy but steam ins actually takes it to a new level of easiness so I just kind of wanted to illustrate in today's video kind of this is how easy gaming has become on Linux it's still not a hundred percent bulletproof for a newbie user but it's something that you can learn and once you do you'll really learn to love it and it's really going some big big places I think next year we're gonna see a lot of the people that mint min and Max errs you know those people that just absolutely have to have the best of everything they're gonna start to look at Linux as an option just because I'm gonna be able to outperform them as far as frame rates and stuff like that if I can beat them an FPS on Linux and they're using and they're using that I'm gonna just they're gonna be like okay I have to have the best and I think that's really where Linux gaming is going and it's it's kind of kind of a crazy thing so all right so we got warframe in there it looks like that was a little dicey on that install we'll see we'll see how this goes and I'm just gonna go into here delete this paste one folder I think that was a lowercase W just gotta make sure you mirror it and we can check our options as well by hitting configure game options and it'll go through yeah yeah so that should be good all right cancel out of that we'll hit play and see if we can launch into warfare so that did not work let's go and look for our executable that's why we're frames kind of a weird one that's kind of what I wanted to do it just to have some issues and let's see where this should be local settings application data hmm this one I don't know I might have to look into this offline guys just to see cuz this guy right here I don't know where it put it this is a third-party tool that gets used to install warframe because it's not quite there and the warframe install from Steam actually works pretty well now so if you're gonna do warframe I'm gonna just go ahead and remove this and go ahead and leave that folder for now but I'm gonna go ahead and remove it from my library just because come on why didn't my dark bean work yeah well a couple little bugs here that I'm gonna have to work through but overall I'm gonna leave that be now I do want to show steam before we get here hey how's it going Gauri good to see you man and I want to pull this up so we're gonna go ahead and launch steam I got a black out the screen because I got to do some two-factor I don't want to give up my sign-in name and some other stuff so bear with me why black out the screen we're gonna launch steam and I got a little two-factor setup here so all right two-factor steam if you're not using two-factor make sure you use two-factor because good night it's always dangerous when you don't all right we're gonna log into existing account type in my account name and login I know the screens black give me a second give me a second all right F's all right okay aha I'm back all right here we go we're back online and we have the Steam library so this is all out of the gate things that have been tested that just work really well and we can install something and just launch into it cool thing here one thing I like to do actually because I like to get all my games in here you can actually say install it enables Steam play for all titles and then it will give you even like the the beta versions of working titles that with Linux compatibility right now this actually has a whole bunch of games listed in here but if we hit this button we'll get a couple more so we'll go ahead and restart steam cuz I like it on all my titles and we'll pick out a game now I'm only gonna pick out a game that's rather small because I don't want to completely kill the stream so we're gonna probably do oh I don't know what do you guys think Final Fantasy 6 or Hollow tonight I'd say those are pretty small games that should should work pretty good I think hollow Knight requires a controller I don't have a controller out here actually so that was not not good foresight on my part I will do Final Fantasy 6 so this right here this is actually in valve testing so this is not part of a lot of the standard ones so go ahead and hmm I don't like the fact it's installing this on my solid state so we're gonna cancel this and we're gonna make one more setting adjustment we need to go into our library's downloads Steam libraries and we need to add another steam folder so remember that drive we added we added on our media two-terabyte we're gonna add a new one and call it a steam library select that and then we're gonna also make this the default so what this does is when you go to install a game it's gonna install it on that 2 terabyte drive because we don't want it filling up our solid state so very important when it comes to steam libraries that you do this if you have two drives this has two terabytes this only has 220 gigs so I don't want to fill up my solid-state by default that's why I made this change so we hit OK and now let's go ahead and install and next and actually I'm gonna remove that I don't like the Start menu I don't I don't like a clunker and a clunking up my Start menu so we might get some buffering why this downloads but it should download pretty fast because it's a older game so shovelknight I still need to get that Gauri still need to get shovelknight I tell you and yeah it's a good point - science says go into account settings and opt for the beta version you can get the new library portion of this which is pretty awesome so definitely definitely cool the the beta from Steam with the new library updates really neat I highly recommend it I actually did it I think on my twitch stream which I'll probably go ahead and redo as well so pretty pretty cool it gives you gives you a little bit more but let's go ahead and finish downloading these things I picked Final Fantasy 6 because it's an old game also probably my all-time favorite Super Nintendo or old-school game I played the crap out of this now fun fact is this is actually called Final Fantasy 3 on Super Nintendo and I played it so much when I was a kid I played a lot more than I actually got blisters on my thumbs doing savin's combos when I was a teenager playing Final Fantasy 3 on Super Nintendo so yeah a lot of good memories from Final Fantasy 6 all right so we've downloaded all this it downloaded a new proton if there's there's different versions of proton which makes the games run a little bit smoother same with Lutra salaat of those install scripts it just picks whatever the best one or the most tested one is and installs it so looters and steam are really the go twos that most people do so we'll hit play and hit continue and then you can go into the launcher and we can change some of the launcher settings let's see what it does out of the gate though I let's not change anything and see see what it looks like this is just such a fun one so steam will install any excess extra things it needs DirectX all those types of things fun fact about this is it doesn't really install directx per se like what DX VK is is it's DirectX - Vulcan I think is the short of it and it's a real-time translation so Microsoft makes DirectX and that's why everyone's like you have to be on Windows to play but really we're Linux is really just blowing up just getting where I just get super excited about it is well this real-time the Nostalgia just the starch I love it since I don't have a controller I really can't I can't really do much here I think my quicksave data how about that that's cool pretty sweet all right close that out so that's just a couple games I want her to go I wish I had warframe now we're framing in here I believe and you might have a better time if you have issues with the looters standalone version of warframe go ahead and install it through Steam steam does a little bit cleaner job it's just sometimes I like to use the looters version depending on the performance sometimes you can get a little bit better performance a little more bleeding edge where steam is more of hey does it run and does it run reliably where you know it kind of bounces back and forth so you can do it either way now this looks like they've definitely looked you can see that it's using the newest version of proton so this one I probably am gonna install because I think Hikari I mean might be doing a stream soon if he's still in chat on Friday on twitch and I'm probably gonna use the Steam version for that stream so we can see that as well Oh sounds really choppy okay sorry sorry about that guys I think I think we're Oh Lord yeah I'll work on that a little bit more as far as the sound goes for this stream I'm probably gonna go ahead and cut it off guys I think we got a little bit of gameplay at the end there so you guys can see it I'll probably jump over on Twitch here around 1 o'clock I'm gonna do some stuff around the house and and get some things set up for some video production later today let me go ahead and flip over to chatting here we can chat and end out the stream so if there's any questions go ahead and hit me up in chat I absolutely I love this and I wanted to make this live stream just to kind of show you guys you can game on Linux and it's not as difficult as a lot of people make it out to be I made a little more difficult in this stream just because I didn't want it to go as smooth as possible because if I wanted to be as smooth as possible I probably use pop OS and it does a little bit better job but this was pretty darn smooth we're an hour and 25 minutes into the stream and hey it's already done as far as the desktop environment alpha I am using KDE I absolutely love KDE is however some people like other things as well so you know it's going good Adam you can catch the stream on replay here I've made this stream just for the archives and I wanted to just kind of structure it so we do a fresh install on my stream PC here and we can kind of see it so it's pretty awesome as far as the AMD card I'd recommend I'd recommend an rx 580 Jim if you can find them under $200 that's an absolute steal that's what I'm using in this one that I used to game on and it is a fantastic card for such a cheap price now on my inside production machine I am using Vega 64 and on my stream PC john john turner he actually made the new logo the ctt logo and he actually gave me an nvidia card so I can actually tinker with some of the Nvidia issues that people have so absolutely love that so a big big shout out to John Turner he's done a lot for the channel and he's a great guy actually got to meet him in real life so it's awesome yes KDE plasma arc 85 I think is the proper terminology how do you solve the problem with easy anti-cheat casts this is actually in development a lot of the people from there are actually are actually doing it so I'm trying to think of I was talking I think it was Teddy EA see on Twitter and he did an update and last May about them working on easy anti-cheat in Linux I really hope this solved I think it's gonna get solved this year but we don't know so it fortnight apex Legends pub gee those are the easy anti-cheat type games that are currently having issues it was an gtx 960 Judas and it's kind of cool so I can kind of test that out and kind of see what Nvidia issues that people have which is great but alright well with that guys like I said let me know I'm gonna go ahead and in this stream now let me know in the comments what you all thought if there's anything I missed I'm sure there's more tweaks I can do but I just wanted to do a basic run through of all the things that we experienced when when setting up a gaming PC on Linux because some people like well it can't be done or it's you get highly technical and it really isn't anymore there's certain things that happened in the stream that you could kind of go back and reference but overall I feel like pretty much any user with any technical ability could do this rather easily so it's kind of amazing how how far Linux has come just in the past year and PEG just from the beginning of this year I did Manjaro and I saw so many improvements in the Installer during this live stream I honestly anticipated more issues than I got so a shout out to the Manjaro team for making it better now how this works you can check me out on Twitch Monday Wednesday Friday I'm pushing my start times I've been doing 9 a.m. but I'm gonna probably push a couple of those start times to like 1 p.m. so we get a broad audience across the board because I know a lot of people aren't able to watch at 9:00 a.m. so I'm gonna try 1 p.m. Central Standard Time and help with that so you can kind of chat with me if you didn't get to ask me a question today on this stream or I wasn't able to get to your your question definitely hit me up on Twitter I'm always over there usually we only run about 20 30 people in chat so it's actually a pretty chilled I mainly do it just kind of relax and get away from the world so to speak and then you know as far as video production I've really were get on some cool stuff this week and we'll see how that all goes and shakes out I'm trying some really new new stuff that I'm just kind of wrapping my head around and hopefully making some videos about that later this week as well but with all that guys I'll see you guys later I'm gonna probably jump off right now archive this one add some timestamps so people can see the different types of installs for this one and just know you can game on Linux so with that I'll see you all in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

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Id: 3_m6oQpR_d4

Length: 89min 43sec (5383 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 23 2019