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    [–] Senseless@feddit.de 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously though. Seen people install Mint, and run non-Linux games through steam with no issues. I had to troubleshoot for about 8 hours so kind of make them run.

    [–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Hardware is a big factor in this. Mint in particular is a stable distro based on the ubuntu LTS so it's slow to get new kernels and you need a ppa to get a fresher mesa install and this is essential for newer amd hardware. Conversely if you're on a rolling bleeding edge distro and you rely on nvidia and their closed drivers then you're often one update away from breaking them.

    [–] Senseless@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A few days ago there was a video from a relatively known Youtuber on here I think that sparked the idea to try to make the switch again. Mainly because I have experience with Mint and he showed how it "just works", even with notoriously bad nvidia drivers, which I also need.

    [–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    What ended up being the issue?

    [–] Senseless@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    After I switched go the flatpak version of steam and changed the drive from NTFS to ext4 it works. I did both at the same time so I'm not sure which ended up fixing it or if both is necessary

    [–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

    Yeah probably using NTFS was your issue. I had the same problem with ExFAT.

    [–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

    yeah ntsf doesnt play nice with linux version of steam that was almost definitely the issue.

    [–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    NTFS?! Yuck.

    But like what was the issue?

    [–] Senseless@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It's still a dual boot machine. I don't have the time or nerve to switch over on one go. See it as a prove of concept.

    Idk what exactly the issue was. I just know that switching to steam flatpak and ext4 seem to have fixed it.

    [–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

    Since you are not telling me the issue I cant give you what might have went wrong. You might have learned from that.

    One advice, nobody will like linux who painstakingly has to play catchup on the terminal on a pre-baked OS.

    All the distros I ever cycled through, I always had issues with pre-baked systems. There are always these little things you expect that does not end up happening even if you sweat blood. Then you start looking and you find out that nobody ever had this and there is no documentation whatsoever.

    The only antidote aganist that if you are in control and if it is documented. I only ever liked linux in the advanced form.

    [–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

    Wait until later in the spring when the next version of Mint comes out.

    [–] endhits@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Mint is considered the new standard for "it just works", but I had nothing but problems on my desktop with mint.

    [–] greyw0lv@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

    I personally had to give up on mint after like a week. Couldn't for the life of me get multiple displays working.