About Linux

Guide on how to prepare and Install Linux in general. Most of the guide here rewritten by Linkachus17

THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!! I'LL TRY TO FINISH THE WORK ASAP!!!

Backstory, I guess...

Ever since Windows 11 became an absolute disaster of an OS it is, many people are considering to switch to Linux, including myself. Mainly because Linux is just better in many ways compared to Windows OS, such as: Better privacy, no bloatware, and you pretty much can do whatever the frick you want with it

When people hear the word "Linux" they (probably) going to scream: "Linux is hard to use" or something similar. But I mean, wake the frick up!!! this ain't 2012 anymore, Linux is not that hard to use.

Let me tell you a story, back in around 2014, when I was a 2nd grade high school student, I used CentOS (which is long gone dead by now) as my first Linux, and the first thing that I did??? I formatted my HDD and panicked because I have homework due tomorrow (at the time). I panicked even more because CentOS doesn't come with DE (Desktop Environment) and I do not know how to navigate TTY.

Then I consider using Ubuntu as my 2nd Linux OS, and...it's fine, it works, but Linux gaming is not a thing yet (at the time). We still rely on using Wine, because Proton is not a thing before Steam OS is a thing, and Wine is not good because it cannot run many games that I want to play. So I went back to using Windows 10, and hope and prayed that I can play my game on Linux somewhere in the future. And so here we are in the future, we have SteamOS, we have Steam Deck, we have Steam Proton, Linux Gaming is now a thing

I was still a bit nitpicky before moving to Linux, because I thought to myself: "Is Linux really that stable nowdays???", at the time, it kinda is not really that stable. But I moved to Linux anyway and just stay, despite some issues like broken NVIDIA driver causing flickerings in games or apps. But again, those issues are already fixed by now. Ever since NVIDIA updated their Linux driver to, I believe 555.x, it was like a god blessing for me, a game changer for some, because it fixes the flickering issues I mentioned before

Things to keep in mind

While Linux is a great OS in many ways compared to Windows and Mac, it has ups and downs to it

• You can't play some (not all) popular online games, such as: League of Legend, VALORANT, Battlefield 6, and many more

• You may (or may not) struggle to find alternative apps/package for Linux for whatever app you used in Windows, specifically if the said app doesn't have Linux version

• You may encounter some weird issue, such as: CPU/GPU specific issues, Distro specific issues, Desktop/Window Manager specific issues

• Linux security stuff might gets on your way of using Linux, however this is very unlikely

My Goal, or rather this guide's goal

Kyloneko made this guide originally, saw the guide and am like: "Damn, this is hard to read, and missing visual stuff and what not". So I offer Kyloneko my contribution by rewriting his guide into a better looking one here. Not saying that this guide is going to be 100% better than Kylo's own guide, am just saying that Kyloneko's guide is mostly text based guide, and also uses README.md for the guide, instead of using proper Wiki. So finding specific stuff can be pretty hard there

While this is mostly a guide on how to use VTubing softwares in Linux, this guide does not cover on how to install Linux. This is mainly because each Linux Distro has it's own way of installing it. Linux has mostly no standard for stuff, so you may encounter a problem with 1001 solution (exaggerating)

However, this guide can provide you some of the stuff needed for installing your Linux Distro, such as Preparing your Installation media, or Setting up your partitions. The rest is...well, you must search specific guide for installing the Linux distro of your choice. Or you can just YouTube search it

So the main goal of this guide is:

• Help VTubers to understand how Linux works

• Help VTubers move to Linux, if they desire so