Gaming On Linux In 2024 with Linux Mint, Gamescope, FSR and More!

[@dorofteiionutz3952]

Good to see that you are ok. Thanks for the videos Don.

[@nelsonmiranda505]

Great video, love your NextCloud content as well. I've created my first server and I'm looking at building or buying my first NAS thanks to you!

[@freightrainfred7512]

This is a godsend! The only reason I’m still on windows is because of my steam collection and the unfamiliarity of gaming on Linux.

[@Warbob11]

Honestly Linux isn't 100% on game compatibility but it's quickly getting there. Mint is a very good jump from windows, I went from mint to pop os due to personal issues with my gaming. But Mint is very well off for gaming, I just have more experience with Pop and I still recommend Mint aswell.

[@markhackett2302]

@@Warbob11 WINDOWS isn't 100% on game compatibility either. Try running the original Max Payne on Windows 11 or 10. Doesn't work, you need a compatibility outside windows and some fiddling for example getting SOUND out of Max Payne in the cutscenes, or a fiddle to make the Intel video work under windows. Windows even with a compatibility for prior versions of Windows doesn't work on SEVERAL games. And when it comes to Steam, what if Steam requires an update that then requires a Win11 or 12 OS, but the game only worked on WinXP compatibility and ONLY on Win7, 8, 8.1 and 10. Suddenly you are SOL purely because you use Windows.

[@r0bo11]

@@markhackett2302 you could still virtualise an older instance of Windows and do all the necessaries to get the game running if you passthrough your GPU to it. Not all hope is lost.

[@EaglexEyeGaming]

​@@r0bo11You can do the same with Linux though

[@Warbob11]

@@markhackett2302 Good point, which is why I have a windows xp computer for older games.

[@jacobnoori]

Switching to Linux has picked up steam lately so this video is sure to help people out there. Well done, Don. Hope you are well!

[@clivedamagedgoods]

"Picked up steam....." Ha! I see what you did there, good sir.

[@suminshizzles6951]

I know less than nothing but hold certifications on windows. I like to game but i dont like the direction windows is going. The spying is just one part of the whole picture i dislike. Its the constant UI changes makignt eh user learn a new GUI when they should be giving the user the opption to keep things the same with no fuss. I rely on clips like this so these really do help

[@Lucas2RC]

I've just switched to Linux, so I needed this. Thanks

[@raphaelkyembe4407]

Welcome

[@P9HL2BETA]

On Mint you need to enable the option to show unverified flatpaks, after that you'll find Steam (flatpak) so no need to use the terminal for it.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Ahhhh I will remember this

[@RedSntDK]

A controversial decision because now everyone will just enable the option to show all flatpaks instead of warning per install.

[@purpasmart_4831]

Try to avoid using the flatpak version of steam, makes modding games more hard to seal with and drives are hidden by default due to the sandboxed nature of flatpak.

[@shayanali8771]

​@@purpasmart_4831so what should one do

[@kusakabe3264]

​@@purpasmart_4831what version of steam should I use instead?

[@joshman5217]

Great video. Thank you! It's been a few years since I tried gaming on Linux. I've wondered how things have come since then.

[@hooman_cosplay]

20:18 About DLC management in Heroic: Heroic have DLC management under detailed options on game page. Press 3 dots on detailed game page -> Modify Installation and there will be a list of DLCs. Devs did it in such way because they had problems with DLC fetching between EGS and GOG

[@rajdeepsinghbarad2420]

Wow! This is the most detailed video I have ever seen for setting up the Gaming on Linux! Loved it, amazing video and you got a new subscriber!

[@pistolp8037]

Such a great tutorial! No 2 hour long video. You made this really simple for Linux Newbies. That said, I've been using Linux Mint for about 8 years now, and since Windows 11 and all its built-in spyware, I no longer dual-boot. Linux is amazing now, everyone should be using it. Linux FTW!

[@DavidDavisL]

Wow - I need to add this to my favorites and reference/review it a few times. Very nice walkthrough of the process, thanks!

[@cyberbillp]

I chose Linux Mint as well. I've never regretted it. Everything just works. - Wow, you got Linux Gaming nailed. I just went with Native Steam vs Flatpack. I never knew there were Flatpack advantages. Good to know.

[@colbyboucher6391]

Thanks for this. I use Linux daily but I've never *really* understood stuff like Lutris so it's great to have a guide now that I'm re-installing everything and looking to do it in a more "centralized"way.

[@awakengangster]

多謝！

[@alexsal6069]

I'm a new Linux user and this video is amazing to understand how to configure Steam and gamescope on Linux, will try this with my Fedora installation. Thanks a lot for making this video! It would be cool if you make a video explaining HDR using gamescope, the arch wiki is geared towards arch users.

[@natsu0137]

New major Linux gaming video! Keep up the good work!

[@blackmennewstyle]

Another great video :) Have a great week ahead and keep on Linux gaming 🔥🚀

[@nater7979]

I use goverlay and just add gamemode to launch options. A little less to add and gives you all the info. Adding fsr ill have to try. Great video

[@aru-ch]

Man this was the ONLY tutorial out there that allowed me to run the games I wanted on my Hyprland config. I run an NVIDIA system and apparently it has horrible compatibility so I'm really thankful for this guide!

[@SeraphXS]

thank you for helping me to get Steam up and running! amazing video and I love the breakdowns of using Linux command line (linux virgin coming from 20+ years of Windows)

[@wchorski]

ironically all the 'gaming' distros (Garuda, Nobara, Pop OS, etc) gave me trouble either with install or sluggish apps. Linux Mint really has made it easy and stable

[@ZacharyNoah]

I once ran Linux Mint on my two-year-old Beelink SER4 Mini PC, which was on its last legs at the time. And it wasn’t very long before my Mini PC had succumbed to motherboard failure and died. I’m thinking about replacing my old Beelink Mini PC with a barebones version of the Minisforum UM690 Slim, which can be found on Amazon for less than $270 USD. I’m thinking about adding a 16GB DDR5 Dual-Channel SODIMM kit to my new Mini PC. I plan to eventually upgrade the RAM to 32GB at a later date. I’m also thinking about installing two SSD’s that I still have lying around in my bedroom. Instead of Linux Mint, I’m thinking about installing CachyOS on my new Mini PC. After all, barebones units don’t come with a Windows 11 license, and I don’t plan on returning to Windows 11 anytime soon, anyway, or ever. For my Linux setup, the root and boot partitions are going to be on my primary 1TB SSD, and the home partition is going to be on my secondary 2TB SSD.

[@mhos5730]

Hey Don, appreciate you and your videos.

[@BrianMaddox]

Mint runs the same kernels as the Ubuntu LTS and you always have the option to install the HWE kernels. 22+ by default follows the HWE kernel point releases.

[@mravg79]

I like the Steam Deck. I tried Linux back in the past (mainly for projects during my studies - 1998-2003) but never switched back then. Now Deck replaced the laptop (sure I have dock, external display keyboard and mouse). I just want to share information that some might find useful DRM free games there is way much more them than just GOG. some games on Steam are drm free, some on Epic (including some of games from weekly giveaways) and Amazon Games app in which case all games one can get through app are drm free. This helped me with managing my games on steam Deck without any 3rd party software installed.

[@uMalice]

It's great to see you again Don. Another great video! Best Wishes

[@kecske_gaming]

yooo nice setup and great tutorial :)

[@JustinGeekNerd]

Love your channel, hope you're feeling good!

[@qubitgg]

Hey man, I hope you beat it once and for all. Welcome back! Lookin' good.

[@lordtraust]

As much as I want to convert over to using Linux from Windows, seeing all the steps to run Steam games makes it hard to do and remember. This is one of the reasons why many people do not convert as seeing all the different options and no real idea of the differences scares common folk, it's great there are all these options but it's too overwhelming for first timers.

[@fanis4093]

he gives too much information and this is ok as he wants to show all the cool things but because of this he makes it look scary. You do not need to set all these if you just want to play games. You can play games out of the box like most people do and learn the cool things if you want later.

[@markhackett2302]

No, unjustified fear and blame of the Linux OS for what you would blame the game for if it was not easy under Windows. What about the change of driver method in Win10 that bricked many games and accessories that still 100% worked but without a driver, it is just a weird mix of plastic and metals.

[@C0SSTY]

What he did in this video just gives him more options how to play games. Installing steam from software manager is all you need. Then go to steam settings > compatibility. Enable steam play for other titles.

[@danny3man]

A lot of options are because of the low end graphic card(fsr, gamescope...)

[@Chareidos]

@@C0SSTY I did install steam via software manager, but I got no option to install Chivalry 2. Do you happen to know what I can do, since some folk managed to run it on Linux without further explanation. For me the install button is greyed out.

[@drreality1]

Thanks Don, great tutorial as always

[@binhuang8050]

I recently switched to chimeraos for my game pc. it works great for me.

[@petar0402]

Hey Don, looking good! I hope you're as good. Thanx for the vid.

[@xero110]

The best part of watching you make a Linux Mint video is... Did I just get a notification? I use Mint and hearing the background sounds makes me think, wait? What just happened? Jokes aside, I'm happy to see your face, keep up the great fight!

[@tpasi2020UG]

Nice! Good to see you. God bless.

[@SteFanYahu]

ive learnd alot from u thx 4 sharn ur knowledge

[@Pirate85_Original]

Ure a damn GOAT - thank you so much for it!

[@spunktr]

Thank you very much, Don; nice insights and, as always, a good guide ☺

[@vorteco7692]

Thanks! This helps a lot!

[@DanielHomeImprovement]

great video, very informative and thabks you. of theres somethibg your video shows is how much work is still needed to make linux a gaming friendly platform

[@sheldonkupa9120]

Nice video.👍👏 I just recently build a Mint gaming setup. I made mistakes, had i known you are going to make a video on that😄 Thx

[@mikithekynd]

Thank you! I literally decided to switch to Linux 3 days ago and without this video I wouldn't have the courage to switch. Just a minor thing though - can you add timestamps or chapters for each subject?

[@techzone2009]

Endeavor or manjaro is a better choice. Even valve support Arch linux

[@simian3455]

He's alive, YES! Also, great video.

[@donnieb390]

Unsure if you realize this but This comment is in very poor taste.

[@simian3455]

​@@donnieb390 Your comment about my 'poor taste' is truly in poor taste. It seems you're more concerned with policing others' emotions than showing empathy for someone who's just overcome a serious illness. Perhaps you should consider how your words might be perceived as 'poor taste' in this context.

[@donnieb390]

@@simian3455 you could not be more wrong and I’m fine with telling you off. What he has you don’t “ overcome”. It’s terminal. It’s absolutely horrible what he is going through. You don’t make a quip about him being alive. Wtf is wrong with you? I’m assuming you have low social intelligence.

[@emshomar]

Does Gamemode not need to be installed as well?

[@almartin4]

My laptop is the only computer I have. All of my games (30 plus) on Steam play just fine in Mint 21. Steam auto loads the Proton files when necessary in updates. 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 The system crashed and I moved to Mint 22. Games locked up and would not play: back to 21. Same issue but someone on protondb suggested fixes which worked in 21. Would like to try PikaOs but my wireless connection is slow with an 8 hour download for some games. Regards

[@CollinBaillie]

Is mangohud and gamescope just for showing the fps counter etc on screen? Like.. epeen addon, not needed if you JUST want to run the games successfully? Or do you "need" it to tweak things in order to actually get the game running?

[@chrissncrossn6770]

I tried Mint22 on my laptop and PC. At Laptop it used Intel Grafics instead of nVidia. I fixed it. Xone worked for only one day. Now i cant use my controller. At PC there is no freesync, tearing and grafic jitters in Lutris. Xone dont work. Now i am on Nubara 40. Works perfectly

[@Magdabo]

Why you use only flatpack?

[@ianpogi5]

I use Fedora for the last 2 years and all games I play run OOTB without any tinkering.

[@3dhYT]

I can't even play RetroArch on my Linux Mint. For some reason I can't install the cores. --- Ok, everything works, but I had to install it via the graphical interface. The terminal version doesn't work.

[@RedSntDK]

Did you install the flatpak version of RetroArch? That's the advantage of using flatpak, dependencies are easier to solve - downside is all the extra stuff you sometimes have to download making things take up more space, but at least you don't get into situations like you describe where things don't launch.

[@3dhYT]

@@RedSntDK yes, I installed the flatpak version. This version works.

[@RedSntDK]

@@3dhYT I instantly bricked my version of RetroArch because I set vsync value to 0 😅 Um, yeah, user error, but at least I downloaded some cores beforehand so I know it works. EDIT: (Warehouse made it easy to delete user data for retroarch so I could start over btw)

[@clivedamagedgoods]

Im pleased to see you explaining this but what I'd really like to understand is how you learnt how to do all this. Like, how and where did you learn how to know which things to install? I consider myself pretty tech savvy but I look at this and I'm like "what the actual f**k?"

[@GASTBF]

doesn't gamescope only work on wayland though? linux mint ships with X11 still, at least, it's still the default session since cinnamon isn't fully ported to wayland yet

[@anjanbora7943]

God bless you with linux ❤

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Don.

[@pcompani715]

None of my games launch, even the launch option command, when you click play, it either says running and nothing happens, or it seems to start something then seems to shut down

[@radvilardian]

Dude u rock!

[@vipinviswanathan7763]

very helpful tips

[@geesharp6637]

That's great. I've always been keeping an eye on Linux for gaming, but never found a good explanation. Did you say that Star Citizen works with this as well?

[@konitobe-fw8gs]

I game on a stock fedora kde install, it works well enough for me.

[@RajanVatsa-u9g]

i am getting this Failed to initialize graphics. Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings. InitializeEngineGraphics failed

[@ArtThouFeelingItNow]

When should you use gamescope and/or FSR? I'm gaming on a laptop with a 4060 with just steam, lutris, and heroic installed. Would I benefit having these installed?

[@mattvisaggio]

I thought gamescope was just for Wayland? From what I understand mint still uses x?

[@bonkinator321]

@@mattvisaggio No and yes (by default, but Wayland is available).

[@spinkey4842]

the only reason i use windows is vortex mod manager for cyberpunk. after playing the game modded i can't go back to vanilla anymore. getting vortex to work proper in linux is ruff, for me at least. but my windows drive is isolated from the interwebs and can't phone home at all. sad it has to be that way

[@stufflike5844]

The only reason Linux didn't work for me was audio, I use a Wave XLR as my audio interface and I want real time effects on the mic. The Wave XLR doesn't play nice though with Pipewire or PulseAudio when routing causing random disconnecting is really frustrating

[@davidpower3102]

Good content here.

[@Rico_Roberts]

Been on Linux Mint 20 for a week. My gaming experience was terrible compared to Windows. Tried Fedora 40 as well. Same thing.

[@nikichashadow]

as a expirienced user what isues were you haveng wloud love to help you !

[@vng]

For resolution, is there a reason you are using 640x380 instead of 640x360?

[@NovaspiritTech]

Hahhahha I should have use 360 instead of 380, more of a typo on my part

[@Munky332]

What about for standalone games that aren't steam, or in some sort of launcher? or what about for VR games (and again, when not using Steam)? I've heard of ALVR but Haven't really seen much info on it. I have a Quest 3, normally run windows, want some options to move away from win obviously. I have Mint setup on a spare SSD, but mostly just use it for daily stuff when not gaming... With 24h2 forcing copilot and recall, I'm tempted to abandon windows all together, but Linux gaming looks to be fucking painful sometimes...

[@madhacker7]

Isn't it just easier to start with nobara?

[@voodoovinny7125]

I wonder if there is a group of individuals who want to run Debian x86 on old Pentium M, Pentium III, Pentium 4 on older Radeon 9700, X800/X850, GeForce Go and regular 6800 Ultra/7900 GTX (and so on) to install and play older Windows 9X and XP games installing them the easiest way possible. So many in Linux seem to be like Windows where they focus only on the newest hardware to include making installing stuff simpler ..

[@samnwakefield2032]

Im using arch linux with nvidia 560 and when I use steam launch options it just wont start...im using this one same one you explained

[@Ivanamaria99]

there is now a number 4 dor game scope is that the better option?

[@-seafish]

Thank you!

[@MotownBatman]

Hey Brotha! Well Done. Whatevere happened to your Wii-U BT Project?

[@wchorski]

I've been pulling out my hair figuring out how to manage gamepads on linux. If you have any tips managing multiple gamepads (ps3, xbox, nintendo pro) for drop in drop out play on PC or emulation apps. I've tried MoltenGamepad but installing is not user friendly

[@megamodspc6436]

what about goverlay, how to install it for flatpak

[@DJDocsVideos]

Ôr you could use Tuxedo OS, and use the native debs 🙂 plus you get a nice KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop and not whatever this atrocity that mint installs is.

[@Chareidos]

I already have steam installed... via the software manager! Now this tutorials tells me to do this via the terminal for whatever reason. Is anything wrong with not installing steam via the termina as flatpak? I am confused.

[@CHOMPER93]

Im also pretty new to this but i did what you did installing from the software manager and had problems getting steam to recognize my other storage devices. Im sure there are other reasons but thats just one i ran into.

[@Chareidos]

@@CHOMPER93 I was able to add another directory for my steamlibrary, so I do not know what would be the problem. Did you try to add those in the steam settings?

[@EduardBP]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, love Linux Mint 22 I installed only a couple of weeks ago, everything works great including editing programs etc, but on Steam, games that have not been developed with linux in mind don't seem to work at all, maybe I'm expecting too much - trying to run Bioshock Remastered with no luck, followed the video tutorial yet it just doesn't work. Euro Truck Simulator runs perfect but that has a linux version, as well as Portal for example. Can't make Forza Horizon 4 to run either.

[@NovaspiritTech]

did you enable "steam play for all other titles"?

[@kerkilabro4361]

With Nobara 40 ill got Dualsense support with Ratchet & Clank on Steam. With Mint the support is gone, why? by the way: mint kernel is still under 6.9. 6.9 got a lot of powerful stuff for more frames per second in gaming. I installed the latest liquoris-kernel 10.X, even with this kernel I miss Dualsense support 😞

[@robdavis8556]

You got Steam, GOG and EA launchers working on Linux, what about Oculus? I would love to play Lone Echo on my quest 2, but AFAIK you can only launch it from Windows Oculus software.

[@cesars5106]

What If you use nobara instead? Or batocera?

[@chillsmeit]

Nobara, Fedora, opensuseTW, cachyOS, all of these are better and more up to date for gaming, regarding packages and kernel and they're a better experience for newer hardware. The amount of times I've seen people have issues with Mint because they have really recent hardware is too damn high

[@sahbiah]

Hey! Got everything working fine here except for Gamescope. Whenever I try to launch a game with it (Using Flatpak Steam ofc) it just says "Launching" and then instantly closes. What could I do? I tried searching a bit but didn't come to any fixes or conclusions regarding this Edit: I forgot I could try downgrading to an older version, so I did. The game boots now but my mouse position is offset. The game cursor is wildly different from the actual host position.

[@tennoframe]

windows: install steam, install game, play linux: install 20 stuff, do command prompts, do configuration, do compatible layer checks, launch game and hope it works, fix issue, relaunch to me: no thanks for hassle, windows is still the way

[@cyberbillp]

Install Linux, Install steam. Play. There is nothing else required. Now you have options to tinker with if you wish (as in this video). But your characterization is untrue.

[@tennoframe]

@@cyberbillp many overlays still dont work, nvidia fast replay dont work, aint no time to mess with obs

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

These are not always necessary, but yeah... If you are a hardcore gamer and don't want any tinkering, stay on Windows. I use both Windows and Linux, so I know. If gaming is the main target, then Windows is the way to go.

[@MrTreb88]

Is there a way to control TDP? Or gamemode is more than enough? Just got into linux.

[@Ivanamaria99]

i would say to anyone following this message to possibly choose to not install steam this way doing this disabled me from being able to use my mounted device to download games downloading this through the exact site is the better way and only one which worked for me !

[@ManojKumar-ww9sb]

I tried wine and steam, not sure if it matters to run Genshin impact both ran well enough but the cpu usage was always 90% whereas in Windows it's 60% at most. Is that to be expected or do I suck at linux? I've been using linux for whole month

[@LincolnArrais]

Games won't start up when I use "-- %command%"

[@LincolnArrais]

Solved. Apparently it happened because I installed gamescope with the latest version (24.08 as I'm typing this). Uninstalled and installed the verison in the video (23.08) and it's working.

[@RazoBeckett.]

Hey, don how are you ? Happy Life ❤

[@darklightuk2]

Okay total newb stumbled (well YT recommended) your video BGUT what iare game scope and mango hud? why we using them? and FSR?

[@ziozzot]

does FSR also work an nvideo or intel GPUs

[@unlotto]

personally, 30fps is too low; but if you can get 45, its way more playable.

[@nailil5722]

does linux have HDR support?

[@Crack.Version]

So how to play cracked games from my external hard drive like cyberpunk 2077 I have a lot cracked games from steam unlocked

[@cyberbillp]

Lutris.

[@zoumius]

I love mint

[@vishutomar-q6r]

hi buddy, i am huge fan of linux and currently using garuda linux. I have one requirement, i want to play COD Warzone DMZ on this but as far as i know i can't. so can you please tell me a way to do it or you can guide me in finding a game like that in linux so that i can enjoy my linux more than i already do. Thanks for your help already which you did via this videos of yours but would really appreciate if you could find time to reply.

[@louclawges9069]

Look, unless Steam has a game that runs on Linux, then it was made to run on Windows. Linux is not Windows, so a lot of games on Steam work on Linux because the people who made the game, made it to do so. Such as 7 Days to Die, Rising Words, and Once Human, they work because they were made to run on Linux. If it's a Windows game and it can be tweeked run on Linux, then great! If not, my world doesn't end, I just find another game. A lot of older Windows games that I own and have the CD's, 95% of them installed through Wine worked great. But some just don't, then I just move on. If playing a game is your life, and you just have to have Windows, then you're probably right where you need to be and should stay there. I dumped Windows 3 years ago cold turkey, learning Linux on day 1, so I"m no guru on Linux, I installed all my programs I needed to get what I need done, and if they didn't install on Linux, then I found a native Linux program to fill in the gap. Even though a lot of Linux programs are not as pretty as the one's Windows has or as good, but if they do the job, I'm happy. We should be glad people are out there getting all this to work on Linux in the first place.

[@espertempo]

Gaming on Linux is possible and on par with Windows performance wise. Now it needs to automate all these processes and make it easy and seamless to the user. Non professional gamers just want to game, not tinker.

[@markhackett2302]

So when it isn't seamless under Windows, that is a fault of Windows, right? No, if it doesn't work under windows, it is insisted to be a game fault because it CANNOT be the OS to blame, but if it doesn't work under Linux, it is not the game fault, it MUST BE the OS to blame. See Win10 and how many drivers of working accessories stopped being able to be installed because the OS refused and the mfg said "buy our new thing, you cheapskate!!!!".

[@espertempo]

@@markhackett2302 are you telling me gaming under Linux is as easy or easier than on windows? Does windows need a protondb page lately that I'm not aware?

[@cyberbillp]

@@espertempo It is easier. Once Steam is installed, you never even look at the compatibility page. Pick proton experimental and 99.9% of Steam games just run. COD Online, PUBG and Fortnight are the only three I know of that are blocked from running. Technically they do run fine, but the developers block Linux when you join an online game. No idea why the developers do this. I'm sure if you hunt, you could find others, but I prefer to look towards what it CAN do vs what it can't.

[@espertempo]

@@cyberbillp that proton experimental step is exactly what I mean. This should be automated and seemless. If we want to increase Linux marketshare, Linux should provide a better experience than windows beacuse if not, what's the selling point? Security and privacy? Most computer users either don't know about those issues or don't care.

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

It's performance is definitely not the same as Windows. Wine and Proton is a compatibility layer so the performance will almost always be a little worse than on native environment.

[@printphotograper]

How to contact you

[@NovaspiritTech]

you can find it in my descriptions or in about me

[@printphotograper]

@@NovaspiritTech I have messaged you on gmail and Instagram and you have not replied.

[@danddv77]

16:30 give us a video on DLSS ENABLER !!