"How To Set Up Linux Mint For Gaming - Step-by-Step Guide" 

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Thanks for spending the time to make this. I recently installed Linux Mint for my 8-year old son. Super fast and easy. Keep up the great work.

"Enable Feral Gamemode" wasn't grayed out for my Mint 20 install, so I checked it. It was a fresh install of Mint 20 fully updated today before I followed your video step by step, pausing as I did the steps. Thanks for the great video!

Gentlemen like you are the heroes that make the lives of us Windows refugees much easier!

Thank you for including text instructions in the comments! It's really convenient since my internet doesn't work too well at times or I'm just looking for a quick memory refresh on what I need to do. Plus it's all very easy to follow. I'll be sure to follow more of your tutorials.

I went to Wine HQ using my new Distro of Linux Mint 20.1... in terminal I got all the way to installing the "Stable Branch" and got the following error. ANy help would be Awesome! Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 6.0.0~groovy-1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Fantastic video....more so called youtube tutorial posters should follow your lead....you definitely raised the bar. Liked & Subscribed...Thank you very much!

Thank you very much for making this video. I’m planning to build an AMD-based machine with my tax refund in March, and I’ve been a happy user of Linux Mint 19 and gaming with GOG and Steam, so for my new build I’m sticking with Linux Mint rather than Manjaro as I just like Mint. Just subscribed, and looking forward to learning more before March 2021.

I have been using Linux Mint for some time and quite like it. In the v20.1 the printer is already set up after installation. This was good to see as in the past printers was always a problem in Linux. At first seemed OK but then I discovered I could not print a legal size paper. It looked fine in print preview but actually only prints as if the page is letter size. I have set everything every where and nothing fixes it. Linux Manjaro is the same. Printer is HP CP1025nw. Just tried Fedora 34 and would not print at all! Not even the built in test page. In fact it crashed Fedora 34 3 times. Printers have always been a weak part of Linux for decades. It's about time they got it right. If you can't print, the O/S is of little use. This is not the only printer I have had trouble with. By the way, although I would rather use Linux, Windows has no trouble with this or other printers so I'm stuck with Windows until this situation is fixed.

I appreciate the excellent tutorial. Thanks, Liked & Subscribed.

Thanks for all of these tips.

Thank you well done very easy to follow explanation

Thank You very much! Video helped a ton!

Thank you very much for this video

Perfect! thanks a ton

Thank you!! After doing your steps, I don't know how or why but now my games are more stable than they were on windows. Also, i think I gained some FPS :)

Works supper all of it love linux

awesome thank you for this guide!

Hello, I'm going to test VM with Linux Mint 22.0 version and wanted to ask if these steps will be sufficient to start Linux games on the VM? Will be using Virtual Box for the VM.

great video! thank you! one question though, am I correct in understanding that if I only plan to play games through steam, I don't need to install lutris?

for some reason, I have no drivers available in the driver manager. Any idea on how I can install one?

is linux mint a better choice than pop os for machines with modest specifications?

My linux does not work for some reason when I do the installing wine stable part it says "winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (=5.0.3~groovy) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." Please help me i am not sure on what I should do.Can anyone help me im so confused :(

When I get to Lutris, the steps have now changed as there is now a deb package on github... but not sure what to do as I am a complete newb

switching to mint 20 today. wish me luck!

When in terminal I start : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris I get this: gpg: key 37B90EDD4E3EFAE4: "Launchpad PPA for lutris" not changed gpg: all unprocessed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 please help

can you help install Battlenet over Lutris to Linux Mint 20? the installation stuck everytime , thanks

Cannot install Lutris, first terminal command (PPA) fails with "keyserver receive failed: General error"

I feel kind of betrayed to find out that apparent Linux Mint is especially difficult for this (at least according to that github page). Next time I am choosing a distro, does anybody know which would be the best for windows emulation? edit: I was lucky that my computer turns out to have amd

I have a problem, the game I'm playing is region lock on steam, and i pretty much can't install it. But running the game through Lutris is just bad. I always get crashes and stuff, Is there any way to launch my game from lutris game folder to steam? I heard there's a script for it but i don't know where to find it or how to to it. thanks.

the best!

I have screen tearing in cinnamon 2080ti (Driver installed) how can i solve this?

I did install drivers for GTX 1050, but when I try and run games from Steam, it lags really badly. I see 15 fps on a 2d game, how can I fix this?

Followed your guide, I must be stupid; I can't seem to get Skyrim Special Edition working from Steam. At first (left to my own devices to get things working) that was the case but now I realize I might have forgotten to install WINE. So I fixed that according to your guide and it still fails. However, Saint's Row the Third works (and worked before) perfectly, so I'm not sure what is wrong. Red Wings tries to run but invariably, immediately crashes. Same for Hell Pie, Trackmania Nations Forever, and GTA San Andreas (classic version). But a handful of games like Crypt of the Necrodancer, Beat Hazard, Ding Dong XL, and Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition work perfectly. I don't get it. It looks like I've got things about halfway right and halfway wrong. Maybe this is the wrong forum to ask, but I'm getting desperate to get things working as Linux fits all my needs other than gaming, but that's a big chunk of it. I'm also a relative noob when it comes to Linux, so I have no idea how to do certain things, so a step-by-step video was appealing to me. Could it be a WINE misconfiguration? How do I tell? Skyrim gets as far as compiling Vulkan shaders and then dropping back to Steam without so much as a peep. I don't know where to find any error logs or whatever, so I'm at a loss as to what's happening. I haven't even ventured into Lutris really; mostly focusing on Steam first. If there's a better forum than a YT comments section to ask this question, let me know.

Thx for the great video! Why do you recommend the "normal" Steam version not the flathub version?

Hi, how can i make running apps bounded to icons on bar?

Why it says "unable to locate package winehq- stable" ?

thank you!

Do I really need Steam to play games? I pirate Windows game, would it work with proton?

love the vids subscribed

Just tried to install Steam via software manager and it's a greyed out button that says " not available" ( Linux Mint 20.1 cinnamon ) wtf? This a first.

First Minute, first step, first Problem: My notebook is an Intel HD/rtx 3050 hybrid, after installing driver i only get a blackscreen, no matter which version i chose. My bios doesn't let me disable the intel hd chip.

Hi Ryan! This worked and I was able to play the Witcher 3 via Steam and GTAV via Lutris Epic Games just fine. However, I just encountered a problem. I booted up my laptop this morning and the GPU switched to the integrated AMD GPU and it won't switch back to my NVIDIA. I tried finding a solution online but none worked. It's stuck on the integrated GPU. Any ideas on how to solve this? I am fairly new to Linux.

Yes video excellent!!!!

Bro I only setup steam and installed gamemode. First of all the feature run with Nvidia don't work with CSGO, so I switched to performance mode for graphics then set csgo launch priorities with gamemode and launched the game the game was give high fps 60-70 and high settings but there was a lot of stuttering in game. Although the SNK game group mark of the wolves worked with proton enable. I am using LM 20 Nvidia Quadrok3100(hybird gpu laptop) Intel Cpu. Could u tell me what can be the cause of this? I was using Mint for past 2 years and bought a used laptop and know I started to game a bit on it and games runs on windows smoothly but on Linux they are giving me headache. I really want to say good bye to windows but CSGO not working properly is holding me back. The

i installed Lutris but if i chose any game and click on install nothing happen why?

ive tried to install wine but the repository key is different now. when i try to download stable branch the whole process fails. "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

Is there any way to have "Game mode" run at the OS level instead of having to individually add a command line for each game?

Trine 2 was locked at 30fps in game no matter what I did for a while. Problem = in the options.txt file, search for "TargetSmooth30FPS", true" It was auto set like that. When I tried to change that to 144hz ( my monitor's max refresh rate) , launch the game...it still locked the game at 30. Tried 60, same result, then when I was trying in and out combos of gamemode %command% in the launcher's options. randomly steam starting acting weird and I could no longer right click to add desktop shortcut. then it went into an update mode of the game as if it was redownloading it. Then , the game showed more options on the first small window menu screen when you can select your resolution, whether or not it runs in window mode or automatic, then it gave the 144hz option and more, . I figured it out. This was AFTER I selected " Force the use of a specific Steamplay compatibilty tool" and ensuring " proton 5.0.9" was selected in the drop down selection. Hopes this helps someone. Cheers

Hey Ryan love your videos got a problem, I have a core 2 quad q6600 and a gigabyte gt 1030 oc and I can run cod world at war at 90 FPS but on Linux with these settings on Linux mint 20 I get studdering all over the place I used launch options and they improved slightly and I might try egg roll version of proton to see if it performs any better if you can see what I need to install to improve the performance let me know. Edit(I’ve used proton tricks to install dx9vk and enabled it to no effect

8:12 why not steam flatpak version?

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.1~focal) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

There is no "steam play" option when I do this.

What if my computer doesn't have an Nvidia graphics card?

did not work for me i get not modified on server omitting download

Could you do video about setting up LMDE 4 for gaming? Just in case Linux Mint does decide to drop Ubuntu.

Linux Mint 20. All proton games crash at launch. Help.

E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

Hello thanks for video but I open terminal and I write ''gamemoded -s'' gamemode is inactive and I write ''gamemoded -r'' and I check gamemoded -s and gamemode is active. I close terminal and I open terminal I write ''gamemoded -s'' and gamemode is inactive. (sorry my english is not good :( -) 2. I write steam start options gamemoderun%performance% but I think I dont see effect. where am I doing wrong?

For my old pc the Nvidia drivers kill the pc since it starts randomly lag and when I switched to nouveau was back to normal the Nvidia driver version was 340.

So for Steam games only I don't need to install Lumix? Very helpful video, thanks

i cant launch lutris can u help me? i am so noob on linux

Hi! How about Xanmod and Mesa drivers?

Any idea on how to install osu! I've been searching in mamy places

can you remove the yahoo search engine?

Make a video on official support of easy anticheat

This could have been helpful like a year ago instead of my trying to chase a problem that really wasn't a problem. I feel silly.

94.8 MB/s and the germans starts to cry ;( Nice Video, thank you for that.

Ima try this one more time and if steam doesn't work I gonna cry

How to enable steam protein... gotta love autogenerated captions...

I was trying to run Borderlands 2 hah :)

So I spent 24 hours straight getting to this point. Tried to and I think I did install radeon software to overclock my gpu. That doesn't happen Bye bye linux for me for at least 5 years.

Don’t forget to install retroarch

Seriously use the recommended drivers because the open source is trash it made my graphics card ass

look bro i on the latest version of lutris, I was using the beta version of LM20, I reinstall 6hrs ago and here trying to get back lutris to work with Diablo 3. This fucking program killing me with this Fsync shit I tried everything to get the fucking thing to highlight, I shouldn't have left the beta to fucking install the offcial version of LM20.... What can you tell me to get this BS work?.?.? Tell me "This kernel isn't patched for Fsync. Please get a Patched version to use Fsync..."