It’s a mint problem. They still use really old packages and X11 for their display server.
If you tried again with a more modern OS and one specifically using Wayland, you may get better results.
Bazzite and CachyOS are built with gaming in mind.
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Pikaos also great if you wanna stick with a Debian base but have up to date packages kernel and video drivers
Linux Mint being the top distro recommended by searching the internet really does not help the broader "year of the Linux desktop" goal. Like I think we are there for the right distro if you skip disk encryption and opt for home drive encryption, but that itself is not easy info to come by.
For example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1e2qo9v/im_thinking_of_switching_to_linux_what_distro/
I found the switch quite easy from Windows to Mint. Think the reason it is recommended so much, as it makes the first step into Linux easier. But as you said it has it limitations in gaming.
I ended up with two distros, Bazzite for gaming and still using Mint for office staff.
As I have to say the performance and speed of Mint distro is much better, for just doing my day to day things.
So switch distros? Not everything will be perfect which means you have to figure what's best for your situation.
Huh? I was implying Mint shouldn't be so highly recommend. But okay start being toxic. Why switch distros when I can just use Windows and delete Mint 😂.
I mean you took a reasonable suggestion as toxicity, ok 🤷. Your suggestion to switch to Windows instead is also valid. To use Linux means you're willing to put up with relatively new issues. One issue being the choice of your "final" distro. But if that's too much then yeah, there's no shame with switching back to Windows.
To use Linux means you’re willing to put up with relatively new issues
What a broken mindset when Mint is literally glazed as being usable.
"relatively new issues." LOLOL. Yeah please keep coming up with excuses for how Mint wasn't responsible for bricking the NTFS file system (last updated 2001) of my hard drive (2022) after just a few months of using the drive with Mint when it was working fine with Windows for almost 4 years.
But if that’s too much
Yeah imagine lacking the self-awareness that you think normal people talk like this in real life. If you think being passive aggressive by default is normal, then you're either anti-social or mentally deficient.
Of course it's too much when Mint not only can't be used for couch gaming but it also can't be used for HTPC since it bricks an NTFS hard drive. Oh wait, don't tell me you're now going to victim blame and say how I should've reformatted the drive when I decided to daily drive Mint as an HTPC.
I already daily drive Fedora KDE on my PC; I don't need someone being condensing and passive-agressive just because I dared insult Mint for being worse than Windows 11.
Damn, one little suggestion set you off this much huh... Enjoy Fedora and have a good day.
RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX
If I understand correctly, does that mean you had two GPUs in the system? (Integrated GPU in the AMD chip + a separate NVIDIA GPU?) If so, were you maybe running on the wrong GPU? Also, did you install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers or just use the out-of-the-box open stuff? For NVIDIA usually you want the proprietary ones, and for AMD open is fine, but the kernel you're running really matters in my experience...
You can check whether the game is running on your main GPU with "nvidia-smi". Assuming you're running proprietary drivers
Didn't you ask this exact same question yesterday? The post is now deleted though.
Key word deleted. I got down voted for not providing specs and distro.
And yeah I've been trying to abandon Reddit but I guess that makes me a troll. I posted a second question regarding my hard drive on reddit because the first post got too much Linux defenders. I'll probably post the question here too, to see which community is more helpful.
Ah yep that makes sense. Forgive the suspicion, we have some "characters" here that repost the same question over and over, and delete their previous ones.
If you do decide to continue using Lemmy, just For Your Information: Downvotes don't really mean much here. There's no karma, and since the community is so small, people will still see your post even if it's "negative". In fact, some people specifically search for controversial and negative posts using the sort function as they're considered interesting. Generally we try not to delete posts, as it removes already limited content; some communities even have rules against it. Good luck with finding a solution!
when I first switched to linux it was on a hybrid laptop also and it was with Mint. Nothing but issues. once I switched distros (cachyos) no issues.
Why? x11/wayland. X11 has issues with hybrid setups. just doesn't work right at all. for me if I was playing a game and tabbed out of it and back it would either just show a black screen or simply show the desktop while hte game was still running. Once I switched to CachyOS (and thus a wayland DE with KDE or a wayland WM) no issues.
I mean on the PC i built in December, I learned my lesson over the 5+ years of distro hopping and I've been the least disappointed with fedora KDE.
Unfortunately I had my dual boot Linux setup from years ago on this laptop and just didn't want to nuke it till now (slow internet speeds that needed 3 reboots, no drag n drop, this gaming throttling issue, hard drive filesystem corruption). And now windows 11 is working as desired so I'm just going to single boot till I need Linux desktop on an old gaming laptop.
I played Stray the other day and it was getting a bit choppy sometimes. My PC is powerful enough that it shouldn’t have any issues at all with that game. I think it’s just optimised in a way that the game doesn’t like.
I wasn’t bothered because I didn’t like the game all that much.