ikr, i try to stay away from the stock one too

and soon it will die of bird flu

1. don’t use the shortcuts. steam on linux is a buggy mess, i have had those shortcuts corrupt the game so bad i had to remove and reinstall the game more than once…

2. in steam settings, disable shaders pre-caching. that’s only a waste of time feature and it will cause some games fail to launch.

3. when you unticked user defaults, it changed the mount point and maybe the id too. your secondary drive can be located in different directories. personally i always set it under /mnt and set id as HDD.

extra tip: use a better kernel like liquirix or xanmod. in my experience games have lower latency, and system doesn’t hang when there’s some resource intensive task going on. they are very easy to set up too. in liquorix you paste one command in the terminal and reboot, and in xanmod you paste 3 commands. if a kernel fails to boot you can always use the old one too, so there’s no risk even. (just tap shift key on boot until you get grub menu)

odd. maybe they ship worse products to smaller countries or something. i also have a gigabyte gpu and it has been a nightmare since day 1, i regret not returning it. suspected bios problems in both gpu and mobo. i have also seen three different instances of quality issues when my friends have bought gigabyte mobos. DOA, one died within a year, one had loose RAM slots and retailer wouldn’t replace it under warranty…

is gigabyte a reputable brand tho? i have never had a good gigabyte product, and i have never heard of one either when my friends have owned them. recently made the mistake of buying a gb mobo and it’s such a piece of shit 😅 and i only have myself to blame, all for saving 20€…

mint cinnamon. your experience sounds a lot like mine whenever i try any other distro. mint is the best.

afterburner. i’m unable to oc my nvidia gpu :(

if it ran the test again, I’d say yes. but if it just reloads the result page, doesn’t mean anything

its ok if your fingerprint changes on every browser startup

can alsamixer achieve this? i managed to adjust my soundcards gain with it

<1080p screens are still a thing in new laptops. took a quick look at my local electronics store and found some with 1600x900. but most are indeed at least fhd.

well, cinnamon works great on mint and fedora, and i have had less (none) gpu related issues on mint than i did even on windows. kde wouldn’t play nice with my old pc components either and gpu is the only thing that i kept, so i would suspect it’s some weirdness between my gpu and kde.

and too bad i can’t go with amd because i need hdmi 2.1

well yeah i tried ubuntu a couple years back and i remember having some issues with it too.

weird thing is that mint has never had any issues even though it’s based on ubuntu. not even nvidia related issues.

i know i’ll get downvoted but this was my experience last time i tried kde a few weeks ago (kubuntu and fedora kde):

• cool animations but stuttery as hell

• browser randomly consuming 10% of cpu, making everything else slow as if it was using 100% (tested: firefox, librewolf, floorp, brave)

• programs refusing to install

• programs refusing to open

• editing the taskbar often resulted in all the items going on top of each other, i couldn’t move them until i rebooted. couldn’t find an option to reset the whole thing

• i put cpu and gpu temps in the system monitor and it always borked after it had been closed a few minutes

• kded5 or something like that constantly popped up wanting to create a new wallet. couldn’t figure out how to disable. guides pointed to a configuration file that didn’t exist on my system

idk if it’s an nvidia thing but none of these happen on other DEs

personally i find gnome to be kinda weird to use and kde has been so completely crippled with bugs and performance issues every time i have given it a shot (may be a skill issue on my end), that i still have to vote for gnome.

cinnamon ftw.

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)

mint cinnamon because on my system it has no major issues and everything is easy to configure. i don’t have a lot of spare time so i can’t spend hours or even days troubleshooting why something won’t install or run. most other distros have been annoyingly buggy or too difficult to set up.

i suspected a corrupted usb too, but i used a different usb stick every time and with fedora i redownloaded the iso file when i reinstalled,

i am quite familiar with kde since i used nobara kde for a good while as my first daily driver linux os, but the experience has always been a bit broken. i can make the taskbar f-ck itself up by looking at it wrong and a reboot usually fixes it.

some really weird stuff started happening today in kubuntu too, like whatsapp web consumes 10 - 20% of cpu nonstop on every browser. and every time the internet connection cuts off (when suspending or reconnecting vpn), a popup says kded5 wants to add a new wallet… and i swear, this wasn’t my doing 😅

rpm fusion guide was a tad confusing for me and my rtx 30 series wasn’t listed so i didn’t know what to install. i did find a good guide after some trial and error and a full reinstall.

i have used nobara in the past, and i quite liked it and would have kept it but it had (and still has) this weird issue when i suspend my pc and/or turn off the monitor (oled tv), it won’t get signal anymore until i reboot.

anyway for now i ended up going back to mint for the 6th time and everything works so maybe i just stick with it 😂

gave fedora a shot today (with kde) because i see it recommended a lot. i found it difficult to get a working guide for nvidia drivers, had to reinstall the first time because all i got was a black screen. had lots of difficulty mounting secondary hard drive, programs refusing to install and not launching or nowhere to be found after installing, and everything works ridiculously slow even though i have powerful hardware. after almost smashing my head through the monitor i gave up and installed kubuntu, which also seems to have little hickups like stuttering and lagging when downloading something. is it supposed to be this hard? mint is still the only properly working distro i have seen.