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Mint is up and running! (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by MintyFresh@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Thank you all who reached out, it really was awesome.

Was super easy, even my Nvidia cards driver was basically automated. Haven't played anything yet but I'm sure I'll be fine.

I opened up the command thingy a couple of times just to get some settings how I wanted them, but could have gotten by without it.

The biggest stumbling block for me personally was getting the thumb drive in order, then the hardware to boot from it. First you gotta use a thing called Rufus to format the drive correctly, not sure how or why, but you do.

And then I couldn't get my laptop to load bios no matter what key/s I mashed at restart, but searching " advanced startup options" in settings brought me to a menu to reboot from my (now correctly formatted) USB drive.

The rest drove itself. Still some stuff to figure out with it but it's doable. Very polished and user friendly.Thank you all again so much!

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[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You will be fine. I game on mint with an Nvidia card. Steam has a setting to fall back to proton for all games without native Linux, and for everything off steam use Lutris (install it from the website, since the package manager version is too old to be useful)

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does 144hz+GSync work on Mint or Pop!os? I reward it had issues, and I’ve also read it works so I’m confused.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You don’t need 144 Hz and GSync. Waves hand in Jedi mind trick style.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately for me… your powers don’t work on me. They’re a full necessity D:

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My 144Hz screen runs 120Hz on Mint T_T

But yes gaming (and the OS) happens at 120FPS. But it's not 144, man...

Apparently some other Linux distros using Wayland have got this covered, Mint might in the near future

[–] alvendam@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What's going on with Lutris and Mint these days? Still need the Debian ppa from OpenSuse or did they start officially supporting it again?

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They provide .deb files. I didn't hunt any further than that

[–] alvendam@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I see. Just checked their site. It appears that we still need the OSBS if we want automatic updates.

That is, if the method still works. I'm way overdue for actually sitting down and playing a game.