Steam OS on PC is actually GOOD?! 

CORRECTIONS: Thanks to the comments that informed me about the following, I will update this pinned comment with anything else that needs correcting: - Apex Legends does in fact run on linux and is rated gold on ProtonDB - Maya does have a linux version and there is a package available on the AUR I'll be more sure to double check all my information in future videos, even that I make one-off throwaway comments about. Thanks for the support!

Tbh, Starfield crashes on Windows systems as well lmao

I just really hope Valve officially releases a proper PC version of SteamOS 3.x before Windows 10 goes out of support in 2025. My gaming computer is my final remaining Windows device, and gaming is the only reason why I still have yet to put it on Linux. I understand most of this can be achieved on Debian-based distros anyways, but Valve’s tools in SteamOS 3.x are pretty essential

As for VR, Steam recently released the Steam Link App which works like Virtual Desktop or Air Link, but there's no official Linux binary *yet*. For office stuff, I generally use Google stuff, so it's online. For photo editing, while it's doesn't have many advanced features, the online Photopea is surprisingly strong.

It's ok, I hear most of those strong anti-cheat software are root-kits.

For DaVinci Resolve, NobaraOs is the best distro, since it comes with a one-click install for it, so any bugs is most likely fixed as well.

subbed just for the outro line cuz damn is that a good motto. knew from the intro you had exactly the perspective i was looking for and watching this did not fail me. very excited for a linux friendly future :>

I created a couple of Windows virtual machines in Virtual Box for running my Windows software, and that solution works just fine for my particular needs. I have no intentions of ever going back to Windows. Very happy using Linux.

Great video, and very informative and educational, thank you!! Just chiming in to say that I'm another viewer who also found the musical interludes significantly louder than your speech, especially noticeable when using headphones. I had to turn the volume down quite a lot compared to the level I would normally have it set at. I imagine you'd probably be able to observe a discrepancy in volume output between those sections when looking at the output sound levels in your video editor. Best of luck with it, and congrats on this video outperforming your previous top video!

this is a great video!! you've done a great job at convincing me -- i really want to give it a go one day

For GOG and EGS games you can use Heroic Launcher instead of fiddling around with Lutris. It also has excellent Proton tools that I wish Steam had. Any case, I wouldn't recommend using HoloISO (or any "console-like" distro) for regular PCs. What I can recommend for a similar-ish experience is EndeavourOS, which is basically Arch but already set up with a GUI (any GUI you want, Plasma is probably what you want though). Generally Arch based distros are the best for gaming since rolling release means faster updates, just may want to take backups a bit more serious than other distros and keep an lts kernel in the back pocket. More reliable updates than Windows though. Gamemode session is available in the AUR if you absolutely want it, but not as updated as the one in SteamOS, and only works for Radeon.

Great video! Interesting exploration

i really like your very casual-personal style with this video - a lot of YTers nowadays half ass their plugs/engagement shit and makes me want to click off the moment i see that - but the way you talk them in does a really good job of making me not want to barf - good stuff !

Nice video I have made the switch to linux as well some time ago, I mostly play single player games, so they are all steam deck verified and anything else literally works better for me on linux as I'm a cs student, so I require lots of lower level dev tools (make, cmake, decent c++ compilers, control over the toolchain, ...) My only pain point is vr, as I have a cv1 and oculus never bothered to release the linux drivers they have promised, openhmd is decent, but I will probably setup a second drive with windows for that

About needing pulseaudio-alsa, that is a compatibility layer between two methods of working with audio on Linux, the PulseAudio server is installed and used on almost every distro in the last decade at least, considering you installed the video editor via AUR, it's strange it was not a requirement that is installed automatically. In general, I recommend first checking flatpak before trying other ways of installation, since the way flatpak is managed makes it more likely to have the latest version faster, and it may run better on your system since dependencies are managed in a way to ensure compatibility.

Nice video, didn't expect you to have under 10,000 subscribers. One thing to note though is the audio mixing, the video is quite quiet but the music in the chapter titles are really loud. If you could turn up the volume between those sections or the music volume lower, that would be better Another thing to note is the audio and video is out of sync, make sure they're synced up in editing

Re:productivity apps: I think people overlook the Google suite- yes it’s cloud based, but since it’s also browser based you don’t have to tinker with anything and it can even save and open Microsoft based file formats as well as PDFs. Also one thing that unfortunately keeps me from switching is the fact that apparently installing more than one language is a nightmare no matter what distro you’re using and I use the Japanese language and keyboard heavily. If Linux continues to improve and as support for Windows 10 ends however I might seriously consider switching. imo, Linux has big potential to capture a significant crowd if they can iron out the remaining major kinks of the OS by 2025

did you look at the OpenRazer tools and apps? I don't think you needed windows to program your mouse. I have those tools for my Razer kb and mouse, and they do a lot, but I've never used windows, so I don't know what's missing.

Pulse audio is just one of the default audio systems on many Linux distros

Music production is my biggest worry about going Linux. I use a DAW called Reaper which has a Linux client, but I'm worried that I won't be able to use my plugins.

Does Steam OS support HDR? Also does it work well with NVIDIA cards?

What version of linux should someone completely new to linux use if they only want to game with the device?

I prefer using the Steam & Heroic Combo, basically cutting Lutris out entirely or just using it for games like Star Citizen.

Thanks for this video friend! I just found out about Microsoft's coming plan to charge us for our Windows licenses until we upgrade to the new Windows. That's the last straw for me, it's bye-bye Windows for the foreseeable future. And this is in a household with 10 Windows PC's and Laptops! I used Ubuntu exclusively about 12 years ago, but went back to Windows only about a year later, for Gaming/Video Editing/Music Production tasks. This last year's experience I've had with the Steam Deck and it's Arch-Linux based OS has me actually excited to fully dive in. I'm still pissed at Microsoft, since I bought full-featured Windows 10 licenses only 3 years ago or so for all my devices, but I am excited to convert all my PC's to SteamOS for my first full venture into Linux in a long while.

Hi, I liked your video. Nice quality of the video, what webcam do you use? which software editing ? Thank you

Welcome to the world of Linux, been fully switched for 3 years now

How did I just only found your channel. Thanks RU-vid algorithm.

Great video but some constructive criticism, watching you video made me for the first time in over a year turn up my speaker volume to hear you. What i do is play some music and adjust the volume to a comfortable level then bring my mic track in Premiere to that level

cool video, i'm interested in how many games do you have and how many didn't work i have 308 games on steam + others gog ect, with the changes windows is going to bring in this year regarding customization of my system, Eg: classic explorer being stopped working , microsoft is getting to much.

The Serif Affinity suite was the one thing keeping a chunk of my storage dedicated to a Windows VM. Not an entire fix, but with v2 out, and now having a universal licence, I realised I could run a Mac OSX VM instead. Sort of swapping devils, but Apple seem slightly better on privacy. Hopefully it's a work around i can ditch one day.

hey man, nice video .. random feedback that you didnt ask for - your mic volume is too low, i watched several youtube videos before yours without touching my system volume, i turned it up to watch your video... and then when the sfx came they were wayy too loud. but great stuff, keep it up

For some time, Linux may be a weird and challenging experience, but after a few years, when you get to know the ecosystem, apps, resolve hardware problems, customize the hell out of your system, then go back to Windows, for example for work, it feels odd, out of place, clunky, primitive, suboptimal. Everything you knew how to make on Linux easily, you need to find new ways on Windows, often times it doesn't work as well, or you need to install some paid app, that is worse than free Linux alternative... Yes, Linux has its own share of problems, but once you find your way around them, you start to forget about them and the experience of using Linux becomes pleasant and satisfying. And oh, please remember to back up your system and learn how to restore backups. It's a very important step, at least on usual Arch based systems. On Holo OS it's a different story, but still, better be safe.

I have not tried it and am not familiar with it but Maya does have Linux support at least according to their website

Really great overview, if Valve released SteamOS natively i'd switch and wouldn't look back.

Your voice volume on max vs the music is going to be the death of me. Your music is too loud.

Love this video! Been wanting to jump into Linux for a longgg time now. After the part about Ableton & Music production though I knew not to use it yet on my main system hahaha, I use wayyyy too many plugins. Keep up the work man, loving the content!

For Apex this is out of date, Apex works fine. It used to work, then it did not for a brief period because somebody made a mistake with Easy AntiCheat, and then that got fixed. I have been playing Apex Legends in the last weeks, The only minor issue is that occasionally the game crashes when you start due to some weird thing not loading which you don't need anyway (some skin which you can buy or whatever), while playing the game I haven't noticed any problem in the last weeks.

Isn't Krita an option vs GIMP? I've never been a fan of how GIMP feels but Krita is pretty dang close to feeling like PS, and even lets you use PS filters. Maybe it's not compatible with SteamOS/Linux? idk! Just a thought.

I'm switching to steam os, purely because my PC is just that much of an old POS, that my OLED steam deck is a massive upgrade.

Excellent video.

I love the cadence of your speech.

Instead of SteamOS, i would use just regular Arch Linux instead, as when KDE Plasma is installed, it is basically SteamOS. The big difference between SteamOS and Arch Linux is that SteamOS has a locked root filesystem and SteamOS updates basically rewrite the root so packages like gcc, various SDK's and others get removed every update, unlike Arch. SteamOS also has it's own mirror of the AUR, and some packages will be different because, for just not there (although I've found most to be on it). I've also had many occurrences of pacman just flat out not working, because of letting stuff that's i don't understand. When i do get an actual PC (i daily drive the steam deck because that's the only computer i have other than an old Windows 11 laptop that's to slow to use) i do plan on installing plain Arch Linux with either KDE Plasma or awesome installed on X11 (as it seems to be the most supported graphics system). On my new machine i would try to install most of my apps through pacman because of the annoying sandboxing on flatpaks that messes with the filesystem in say VSCode where the terminal there isn't the actual system terminal and instead a sandboxed one, although the sandboxing shouldn't be too much of an issue for more regular users.

Installation 1:42 Devices and Sound 2:16 Gaming 4:08 Game Streaming 6:58 Emulation 7:51 Virtual Reality 8:44 Office and Productivity 11:04 Photo, Video and Audio Editing 15:50 Programming 18:42

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1:42 Installation 2:16 Devices and Sound 4:08 Gaming 6:58 Game Streaming 7:51 Emulation 8:44 Virtual Reality 11:04 Office and Productivity 13:50 Photo, Video and Audio Editing 18:42 Programming 18:49 Conclusion

Apex works on linux, i've ran it out of the box with no problems. The shaders dose take a long time to get through but after that it launches a lot quicker

davinci resolve is kinda notorious for having rough compatibility with other distros, regardless if they literally provide you an installer for it, the best thing to do is to use a container to run it, which should solve your issues

5:17 Apex Legends works fine on Linux though??

Sorry friend, had to bail at 1:42 when the "bass hit" rattled my windows. I watch RU-vid on a home theater PC with a decent audio system (including a subwoofer). The low level of your voice made me turn the volume up quite a bit to hear you. The sudden EXTREME increase in volume of the musical interlude came as quite a shock. It's a shame, because I'm very interested in the subject matter.

13:17 the real answer is emacs org-mode 😄 no but obsidian is great! I use(d) it a lot but mainly for note-taking. But doesn't notion have a bunch of features that aren't in (at least base) obsidian?

small constructive criticism, just pay attention to your transitions audio levels, your speech volume is very low compared to your very loud transition music

My other comment was once again removed, I presume it's because I added and external link to Affinity foruns? I don't wanna assume that it was the him that did it

The audio for this video is inconsistent. Your voice is quite soft, even though I have cranked the RU-vid volume to 100%. Then when your music part comes on, it becomes overly loud.

They are launching the official OS on the 28th of this month I heard for us all to use. Hopefully it will save Nvidia users...

Very interesting.

One thing. If you start you build PC intending to use Linux. Buy compatible hardware I did that with my PC build and all my peripherals work great!

I would have to correct on that with apex , because apex does work and flawless. I have been stream apex on Linux nobara and other distros

Why are you bothering with Sunshine when Steam Remote Play works for gaming? Youre going to find the same problems you claim; lag? Ensure a wired connection

yes

noice vid 👌

The only games I cant and will not play is games like Pokemon that needs internet to play with friends because im not a single player only maniac. I like to play games with my BF so Pokemon is one of those things. NOT UNLESS I was messing around with the game and seeing if I can break it by doing crazy stuff.

Hey Apex should work on Linux they enabled their anti cheat a few years ago

Cmon valve! Release SteamOS official

games like starfield, pso2:ngs and forza needs a more stable gpu clock use corectrl for it low clock 50-100mhz lower then high clock and its fixed if not install qt up proton for installing for each game difrent proton versions same like an steam but for all other games and too for steam

Valve needs to make all games work on Linux if they want to continue to thrive if they can discontinue Windows 7 then they can force everything to work on Linux as an option I personally think Valve doesn't like forcing people to upgrade and it's all the government. Really it's the FAA the reason why you can't play games on older Windows anymore which the government should have no authority to tell a company how to run a business if you don't know the FAA controls these companies no joke look it up.

What the hell you are talking about? I mean about creating PDFs. There is a button in LibreOffice to save the current document to PDF. No special setup needed. Printing to PDF also works by default, also no setup needed. Ocular is a better PDF browser than Adobe, unless you have some document with scripts and forms, but those are rare. There are also tons of pdf utilities and apps, that are superior to those on Windows (usually trial, cluttered versions). There are apps for editing PDFs as well. In short, PDFs in Linux for the most part are a superior experience.

If and only if steam os is able to do VR, I will I switch, unfortunately oculus does not support windows. I don't even care that I use windows I'm just not down with all the spying and background processes it's a lot to tolerate

Linux, you have full control of everything you have on there, hell, even Microsoft use Linux to make Windows lol. Over the years, Linux slowly brought work arounds to get things to run, mainly because DirectX and a lot of fonts Microsoft have a copyright to, and thats the main reason why most games wouldn`t run on Linux, but Steam have been fantaststic for the Linux comunity, the reason is Steam Deck, it runs with Linux, and within months more and more games became Linux friendly using a program called Proton that lets you run games without DirectX. Ive not tried it myself because I use Linux Mint, but Steam OS is there all setup for steam games just to run. Microsoft snoop on everything you do, it slows connection speed and they sell the information, that is not done with Linux and most games run faster for me on Linux than they do on Windows. Dont get me wrong, I have my Windows key (fully legal) but if I had 2 computers, 1 with Windows and 1 with Linux, Id opt for Linux every time, Its safer as long as you only install legit Linux software, its way way faster to install. Everyone has their personal preferance, but I only have an OS to run the programs im interested in and Linux Mint does that for me in a faster, safer way. For thoes that dont know, Linux used to be Shell/CLI to install, but 90% of things now install like windows, If you worried Id start with Ubuntu or mint, as they are close to the way windows works, not identical but close, and there is a lot of infomation on sites like youtube for Ubuntu/Mint.

4:07 too loud!

The sound on this video is all messed up. Your voice is super low and the music during the transitions is super loud!

Couldn't stand the audio, speech volume is very low, intermezzos are screaming loud.

bearly hear anything

I only keep windows because I can not for the life of me mod games on linux.

a lot of "trust me bro"

Steam OS HOLO havent had a problem on my gaming pc just need AMD card

hopefully linux support becomes a bigger priority in the future, but as of now windows is just 100% better for running most games, since you'll typically lose performance running games under wine/proton that if you just used windows (also because the drivers for linux usually aren't that good)

hi spatchy great video. brush your shoulders off next time. :)

Ich love Lynyks

Just use debloated windows

Why shouldn't it be good, when it's good on the Steam Deck? Which happens to be a PC? ;)

*uses Linux* *installs OneDrive* 😑

It´s fine, but not good....

idc about u being lgbtq or something but why does the bisexual flag have to occupy 1/3 of the screen

Gotta love how you dont even check settings in Lutris or read up on how it works, guess this is why you dont have many subs here.

Long story short.... NO its not worth it.

why do you have that charlieissocoollike mouth