Interview with GloriousEggroll about Proton-GE, Nobara, and more

[@posyo5293]

I just want to thank GloriousEggroll for collaborating to make the Linux gaming scene more alive than ever.

[@alanbrucke]

Nobara has been the best out-of-the-box Linux experience I've ever had by far. Seriously great work being done here.

[@esra_erimez]

Thomas, I sincerely want to thank you for all everything you have done for Linux.

[@brads2041]

Thank you GloriousEggroll. After distro hopping for months, I've landed on Nobara Gnome and been using it the longest so far

[@kyledupont7711]

We are very lucky to have people like this, this guy is single handedly one of the reasons you can stop using Windows. Gaming is everything

[@krux02]

Well, if gaming is everything, then all you need to get running on Linux is Games ...

[@JTHundley]

I have a dream that GE and Valve help Linux take over gaming, relegating Windows to be remembered as that legacy spreadsheet operating system.

[@digitalsidequest]

Windoes is doing that to itself with that AI bullshit in the OS. Pretty soon, people are going to discover that it is a surveillance machine.

[@ScaerieTale]

Real talk: I've used Linux (Xubuntu) as a "Have to" as part of learning web dev for the past couple of years, but am finally *really* getting into it as a daily driver. I not only just discovered Nobara and have fallen in love, but I'm also loving the show 🐧 I don't normally listen to podcasts, but I really enjoyed this

[@BjørjaBear]

I never considered Linux before now. After a year of dual-booting, I've built a new pc and ditched Windows all together. Nobara and Cachy OS on two seperate SSDs. Working very well.

[@BekoPharm]

That was fun. Random trivia: I have never actually seen GE before. Just read the blog and use the builds, obviously. Even mentioning him in my presentations on Linux Gaming all the time. It's awesome that he seems to be such a friendly and nice person as well ❤

[@benstechroom]

Back in the day this guy was the only one with a good guide on getting Arch Linux working with UEFI. It was the only way I was gonna get Arch to run as well as I did.

[@foobar9761]

Hey GE, thank you for all the hard work! And for being such a nice guy!

[@mikes.9091]

Thank you all for your efforts in helping make Linux use better for all of us!

[@owdoogames]

First time viewer. What a lovely interview. Thomas seems like a great guy, and I love the juxtaposition of Michael's 'serious' professional voice and Jill's giggly fangirl cuteness.

[@tuxpowerpc]

What an awesome show and interview. He is such a cool guy and the community is extremely lucky to have him. Thank you for a great time!

[@spitezor]

Thanks for doing this interview guys. Great job!

[@RonPike]

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!

[@nadtz]

I completely sympathize with the "rather deal with Linux annoyances than Windows ones. Finally moved my main workstation at home over to Linux for just that reason. Been thinking about trying Nobara (been using Pop OS) as my daily driver, really neat to watch this interview with it's creator.

[@evilleader1991]

It is true, Linux just gives you back that peace of mind...with Windows you gotta think wtf they changed after every update

[@vincesundara8579]

Just discovered Nobara recently.. Thank you @GloriousEggroll !!

[@JoJoDramo-ih7qk]

So lets make bazillion of petitions to ask Linux support? ... Sounds crazy enough for me guys!

[@Isassi007]

Love EggRoll! Keep up the good work on all your wonderful projects (especially ProtonGE and any SteamDeck). Love your work!

[@whiskeylinux]

Woo! Gonna be a good one!

[@pap00s]

Props to GE, both for his work and the kickass Obituary shirt

[@kubuntukowalski]

When I used Nobara first it was number 40 on DistroWatch I've seen it climb to 11 since lol I switched back to Ubuntu but it was a really solid distro out of the box from when I did use it. Thanks GE for all your hard work with everything

[@MichaelWard]

Thank you for Nobara. It made gaming so much easier for me in Linux. It just works.

[@jmz8086]

Wow what a great guy. Thank you GE you're awesome. Keep up the good work!

[@pimpatterson]

really enjoyed all of this, good questions, good answers, loved it!

[@djdavis1420]

Just starting my Linux journey because of the Steam Deck. I'm still trying to make sense of it all, but this was truly fascinating. Thanks for the interview, and thanks for all you do, GloriousEggroll and Destination Linux.

[@dianaalyssa8726]

Thanks so much to GE !

[@liorean]

Amazing guest to have, great episode!

[@81Treez]

I love Nobara. Thank you sir!

[@enemixius]

About the Arch part: I had a similar experience with Gentoo, I loved it and it taught me a lot about Linux. But I got older and don't have the time or energy to keep tinkering, so now it's just Nobara on the gaming pc and Kinoite on the laptop. Thanks, GE!

[@mastertoymaker5249]

"My Spirit Food"! We definitely got our money's worth of Glorious Eggroll 🙂

[@mnicy]

This was sooooo great. Thanks so much for the awesome interview and episode!!! 🎉

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

Thank you Glorious Eggroll! You made it possible for me to move to Linux faster through your Proton packages!

[@Grimm_Holt]

Yeees. My favorite distro EVER!

[@SupermotoZach]

What a GOAT

[@tranthien3932]

I have just finished watching Brodie's podcast with him and I'm now listening to him again.

[@louisfifteen]

What a glorious interview. Computer wizdom flowing like whipped eggs into the frying pan. Really amazing you guys and gal. Very uplifting 1½ hour.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

GE, I love your work, my man. I use proton GE everywhere and it's amazing.

[@vanodon2257]

Grandma Jill always make these so lively. Anyone else can be locked in the basement but as long as we got our linux grandma.

[@Coopertronics]

Nice interview. It's always interesting to hear about other peoples journey into the Linuxverse. GloriousEggroll has helped make the dream of Linux gaming a reality.

[@MarcoKretz]

Very nice episode! The easterEGG of 13337 video length is a nice little bonus :P

[@DestinationLinux]

lol that’s awesome and completely accidental 😎😆

[@Mikesco3]

This was such an awesome episode!!!

[@LastCrossroads]

Came for the Linux news. Stayed because of the Obituary shirt. 🤘

[@Mikesco3]

Finally earned my subscription!

[@Wythering]

Nobara is the best!!!!!!

[@louisfifteen]

Now this is going to be exciting. I am a huge fan of Nobara Linux.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Good stuff guys. Enjoyed that.

[@no.no.4680]

It's really cool seeing that other people out there took the same road. Mandrake, but too young to understand -> Windows Update broke computer -> Ubuntu -> Arch

[@StephenC050]

Thanks to Thomas I was able to remove Windows from my legion laptop and enjoy my games

[@JuanCAraujoS]

Thank you, EggRoll! I've been playng Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath from the original DVD since it's launch, even installing the official patches and the no-disc patch on my Windows machines.. well now is Machine, singular, only one. The others were moved to Fedora. But I haven't been able to install the game on those machines and even if I bought it (again) on Steam, I'd like to install it directly from the original DVDs, specially my laptom, since Steam needs you to be on-line and, well, I'm not on-line all the time on my laptop. Sadly enough, there are no clear instructions on either Lutris or Heroic to make a fuctioning install and using Bottles is quite too convoluted for my taste. Any idea? Once again, thanks!

[@ColtonDuckering]

hell ya GE wearing an obituary shirt

[@KeithGyarmati]

Heck yeah started with Red Hat 4.2 in 1997, then moved over to mandrake into mandriva.

[@Cuperino]

I’ve just started the episode and I’m already craving an egg roll and Steam games.

[@VEKTOR_87]

6:41 so i am not the only one that got their system rebooted while playing a game , Got so angry on that day ... thanks microsoft

[@DefCantGame]

Will say as a linux person for near 2 decades or so, anti cheats have always been a love hate for my gaming(im looking at you EAC every time battlefield would update and break launching)

[@RedSntDK]

I'm probably underestimating how old Compiz is, but I thought it released around 2005, 2006? But if GE was ~13 and he turns 40 this year - was Compiz around in the late 90s? Either way, I found Compiz so incredibly cool when I played around with OpenSUSE in the mid noughties, unfortunately just a bit too buggy for me at the time with so many conflicts I couldn't wrap my head around at the time. I'm glad you can run gnome stuff in KDE now and vice versa, and that audio is kind of "fixed", because oh boy, what a mess.

[@dzltron]

Metal and Linux \m/

[@MathiasShaw637]

Gamers being a part of Linux just makes sense.

[@nextgenryo9013]

How do we use UWU in other launchers? I don't get it. Anyody got a video of the setting up process?

[@walter_lesaulnier]

I'm curious about any other tweaks to Fedora that are in Nobara. Things like I/O scheduler, swappiness, DNF tweaks, etc....?

[@DestinationLinux]

here is the page that lists the mods nobaraproject.org/docs/modification-details/details-on-the-listed-modifications/

[@walter_lesaulnier]

@@DestinationLinux THANK YOU!! I'm not much of a gamer but was very interested in all the other improvements to see if, for my use case, it would be worth installing it anyways. And it definitely is!!

[@vipesontv]

I'm not gonna lie... as an arch user I'm getting tired of tinkering and after watching a good portion of this interview I'm considering swapping over to nobara+hyprland. I tested nobara 39 and I believe at that time there wasn't an install script for hyprland yet but now there is... decisions.

[@YaySyu]

I was having major problems with installing nobara. Turns out, writing out BTRFS caused my faulty usb drive to crap out, giving me corrupted installs.

[@LaSpookyPR]

i was curios to see what gloria looked like i always thoguht gloria wasa girl bc i kept i associating gloria with the female name in spanish my mind blown away

[@DestinationLinux]

Glorious not Gloria. Gloria is a female name but the word Glorious is not a name, it’s an adjective that means “wonderful”. His nickname is Glorious Eggroll, his name is Thomas. - MT

[@xymaryai8283]

i'm kinda sick of the over-containerisation, i know its a fundamental problem with Linux and Wine, but i want a single prefix where all my data can be easily found for modding, save file management, storage management, all of that stuff. Bottles is frustrating, Proton is frustrating, they work great if you never have to touch the files, but i am a modder, i am constantly diving in and out, and i hate deeply nested filestructures and settings. I thought Zorin OS's windows support was bad, but after figuring it out, it seems to be the best way to do it for me. i know some fixes will conflict, and some games i will have to play through Proton and use the compatdata folders, but hey, maybe UMU does this better, i don't know yet. from the sounds of it, it sounds like a nightmare, yet another place to find my files.

[@86ericg]

Company need to wake up and let us play are games on linux it's way harder to cheat on linux then windows dev wake up

[@terminallyonline5296]

22:10 don't want to downplay how amazing that is - box64 is going places - but the OpenMW Project ships an aarch64 native version of their updated Morrowind engine.

[@TheWilldrick]

2 years... dang Ryan was hard to catch and tie down

[@Bearussr]

My question is what’s the difference between Heroic and Lutris?

[@DestinationLinux]

Heroic is for Epic Games Store only, Lutris is a tool for any store and more

[@Bearussr]

Oh I’ve never used Lutris I just use Heroic for gog and epic but I may try out Lutris

[@Jayroro]

@@DestinationLinux Heroic works with Amazon and GOG also.

[@DestinationLinux]

That’s cool they added those. I haven’t used it since it was launched for Epic Games so guess I need to revisit it. Thanks. - Michael

[@naderz4064]

Joining the linux community reminds me of when i got saved and became a christian..... i found the way and want to tell everyone to save them from their fates lol

[@balcobulls]

F*** Anti-Cheat

[@ulkesh99]

@Michael, The email client is Spark, right? :)

[@DestinationLinux]

I’ve not heard of Spark. It was called Postbox. - Michael

[@ulkesh99]

@@DestinationLinux Ahh. Yeah I've used that one as well and it wasn't bad. The reason I thought it was Spark is because I've seen/heard the same thing with them concerning Linux. Spark began as a macOS and iOS client, but they created a Windows version as well and seem to make the same excuses about having a Linux version that Postbox (and numerous other companies) make with respect to "market share" of Linux.

[@DestinationLinux]

That’s a bummer. Postbox annoys me a ton because they literally started out as a form of Thunderbird so it had built in Linux support when they started

[@keiganthetennessean1796]

GloriousEggroll used Arch, BTW.

[@himitsumonban]

they keep talking about "the vanguard news", but not all of us follow the gaming news so closely... what's "the vanguard news"?

[@DestinationLinux]

I covered the topic on my channel in a lot of depth, here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIDSe52OjsR-qtk - Michael

[@Reichstaubenminister]

290 likes and 52 dislikes, but not a single negative comment? That seems weird.

[@donaldc3884]

Now get fusion 360 to work please.

[@toddmclaughlin8153]

So is there a Vid some place showing how to use your Proton gt? I play Lotro, on Nobara. I have been using steam, it is simple. I tryed to do Lutris, but I failed. Being a long time Windows user, I don't want to fight to hard to get it to work. I also have messed with Bottles..but really seamed to also be more work for ? I would like if I did not have to lunch Steam. I did get Battle net up using Lutris.

[@outforbeer]

It bothers me that after decades, Linux community don’t treat gaming seriously. It’s the only way linux could ever go mainstream

[@DestinationLinux]

I think it is treated seriously these days. What makes you feel like it isn’t?

[@someuser4166]

53:30 I REALLY wouldn't say that. It's a rabbit hole on its own but there's currently a semi viral social / internet campaign going on (the #savetf2 one) in regards to valves games being flooded with army's of bots that auto kill and vote kick every human player on the server. The bot creators also done some stuff that got the feds involved. It's legit (not exaggerating nor power phrasing) unplayable. As soon as you'll spawn there'll be like 6 bots headshoting you instantly. They also steal players names and spam racist stuff and very loud sounds in the voice chat and try to sell human players immunity from their bot army's. VAC is truly terrible. It's as efficient as wet cardboard...

[@marsmotion]

anti cheat or data mining?

[@EasyGameEh]

why would you introduce the guy twice in the span of 10 seconds lol

[@DestinationLinux]

Intro was recorded after the interview, so in real time there was a 1.5 hour difference between them

[@almartin4]

Nobara Comments I like Nobara a lot but keep falling back on Mint after each try. Games play fine in Mint but they seem cleaner and faster in Nobara. My laptop has an older Nvidia card so problems pop-up in Nobara (only in games). I have used these versions: 36 Games ran fine (small black streaks) 37 Games have big black areas (cannot play) 38 Like 36 with bigger and more streaks 39 Like 36 with smaller streaks Thanks for all of these efforts! Regards

[@frequentfrenzied]

Windows updates while playing a PVP game is nothing. Try Windows updates during an emergency shutdown of a server triggered by an uninterruptible power supply running low on battery power during a power outage. Do you know what happens when the batteries that are backing your server infrastructure give out while Windows is trying to update critical system files? It renders the OS completely unbootable, and you have to rebuild the server infrastructure and cost the company a day's worth of production during the down time, and then you have to answer a lot of angry questions from C level staff members about why your emergency power solution failed. I came home that evening and installed Linux on everything that I owned that wasn't a Mac.