A Guide To Get Gaming On Linux!

Ever want to kick back and play some video games? Here's how to get Steam, Epic Games, Uplay, Origin, and more running!

My computer rig:
Fedora Workstation (KDE on Wayland)
Intel i7-7700k, overclocked 4.2GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 TI
32 GB of DD4 RAM

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Chapters:
0:00 Why Linux Gaming?
2:10 Native Linux Games
3:18 Wine & Proton
4:03 Testing Conditions
5:38 Gaming on Flatpak
6:59 Wayland Gaming
8:10 Steam
8:41 Custom Wine/Proton
9:47 Epic Games & Heroic
10:51 Lutris
11:43 Bottles
13:11 Caveats
15:03 Environment Variables & Arguments
17:19 Outro

[tauiin]

ACHTUALLY 🤓 the "third-party launcher" for Morrowind (openMW) is not a separate launcher but instead a complete open source reimplementation of the game engine (similarly to DOOM ports like GZDoom). 👆🤓

It supports additional features like higher draw distances, proper font support, and Wayland (with features such as shaders and scripting support in nightly builds) 👆🤓

[LoveLaughlardlivelaund]

You know, while i myself don't pray to gabe, you gotta respect this. I still think 30% cut is a good chunk and that without Australia we would never get the good policy refunds, but my experience with valve is just GOLD.

My account got stolen and i texted their support and within 3 hours i got it back. Once i couldn't refund a game within 2 weeks and they still refunded it for me

And objectively their launcher is just better than the competition. With the good sales too as a cherry on top .

This is just so nice. Linux now is bigger than ever thanks to them . Pure respect . It went from 2 % of the desktop makret to 3.5. wich is still small but over 50% increase . thanks, Gabe

[sprtwlf]

One of the many things I appreciate about your videos is they are so practical and show people how to better accomplish their daily needs in a better and more secure way.

[resucutie]

heroic has instructions on how to get easy anticheat to work on their wiki lmfao

[BrianJones-wkcx]

This is a pretty awesome primer for getting into Linux gaming, great work! Once HDR support starts working reliably on Linux, I’m going to transition my dedicated gaming rig to Nobara.

[loganmoses]

Such a thorough yet simple explanation of everything, excellent work

[ordinaryhuman]

Bottles is pretty great. Definitely easier to get set up for playing games that require dependencies than Wine. Between that and Steam+Proton, I've been able to do all of the gaming that I used to do on Windows.

[SharockoRAZR]

I have really been interested in linux for gaming but man...there is so many barriers to entry.

[wilk]

I was trying gaming on linux mint, but graphics werent smooth, and sometimes it just got broken, i needed to reinstall sustem. Tried fedora 37, regata os, and nothing was working fine, did you had similliar issue? Till i have installed garuda gaming kde, still gaming on x11 but its awesome now

[WMan]

I fucking _love_ flatpak steam, when glibc broke EAC on Arch, I was like "well, sucks to be those guys" and went back to playing Multiversus; So I was so disheartened to learn that it is allegedly incapable of having adequate sudo permissions to install SteamVR. This means if I wanna see how VR progression has come along, I have to install a separate instance of steam that isn't flatpaked, unless there's some weird udev permission thing I can resolve in flatseal.

[wilihey]

i've found i need to dual boot to windows to play like r6s or valorant, any big anti cheat wont work on linux

[hansbehrends]

Anybody know if adaptive refresh work in Linux? The answer I get seems to be "no". I have an AMD RDNA2 GPU and a freesync premium 1440p display

[enderdude]

My computer has a stroke when I try and use Wayland, any help? I have an rtx 3050 btw.

[gopies]

Nice video, I been down this road and although I still have a few games under linux using lutris/steam I got lazy and opted for a gpu accelerated win VM for some troublesome games. Recently spun up a nobora VM and will start experimenting with that soon.

[Neocrypter]

I am super curious how you got KDE working with nvidia and wayland, I have a 2060 and if I log into a wayland session on KDE my desktop get something like 2 fps...

[varsoth]

Right now you can run most games right after os install + a short, guided setup with Garuda or Nobara. I still remember the pain of trying to launch almost anything on Mandrake 2010. Hours of troubleshooting just to realise it has kernel-level anti-cheat or requires some obscure tweaks that won't work with anything else. Bottles helped a lot, true, but it's nothing compared to having your distro ship with wine-GE. Heck, before Proton you could end up with dozens of bottles and STILL fail to launch a 5 years old game 😅

[SeanCortrightMusic]

Is there a good tutorial on how to get DbD to work with linux?

[RobLeonard]

Gaming on Linux is amazing until you run into a game that uses EAC

[Chris-mref]

Gaming on Nobara almost 2 years now . I use an all amd top tier build and i dont play online games so its pretty plug and play for me with the occasional variable addition which i would do anyway to enable gamemode etc. so no issue there.Gaming on linux is amazing, apart from the obvious win of not having to use windows, you have more control over your games, heck you can even enable fsr on titles that dont support it. Linux is a way of life, simple as that.

[David_Quinn_Photography]

Linux has only gotten more appealing for me, especially with windows 10s support ending in 2 years and me having no other real reason to upgrade my CPU.