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Immutable Gaming Distro That Just Works. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently use Mint, as do several family members and friends. Its been nothing short of impeccable. I was occasionally tweaking things until now sometimes the game crashes, PC freezes requiring hard reset. Everything used to work pretty flawless out the box. Should I reinstall my mint or look at PopOS, Bazzite, Nobara, Etc? I'm at the point in my life. Where we all need something to just turn on and play. I want some shit that just works. Or reinstall mint but how without losing all my files and settings? and keep it moving as usual as it used to be flawless. Tweaking is fun until you tweaked so much shit breaks lol. I'm over tweaking. Just wanna game. I keep seeing immutable is good so that's why I ask. Thanks!!

5600x 6700xt Its an all AMD build over here :)

Edit: You guys convinced me I'm booting it up now with KDE! I also plan to try PopOs. I'm excited. Thanks everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

linux typically won't hard freeze on errors like that no matter the distro. it can, but rarely. being an all amd build i suspect there's some cpu bios feature auto scaling core clock or voltage and in my experience ryzen cpus need to have a manually set stable clock and voltage to perform properly no matter the os. try checking your bios and disabling any powersaving or auto-scaling features for your cpu and manually set it for stock clock and voltage. you may need to look up what these values are as the bios might not have a default value for you. this might not be your issue but it's worth trying. good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'll check thanks! I'm unsure of why. Maybe even a bad MoBo but I'm willing to at least try all routes before ordering a new one.