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I started using mint a year ago and had no such issues. What hardware are you running out on?
System: Kernel: 6.8.0-53-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.6 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: part-nu: SKU UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5013 date: 03/18/2024 CPU: Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 0 cache: L1: 768 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 64 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2321 high: 3800 min/max: 2200/4672 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2051 5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200 13: 2200 14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2200 17: 3800 18: 2200 19: 2200 20: 2200 21: 2200 22: 2200 23: 2057 24: 3800 bogomips: 182408 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 550.120 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-1,DP-2 empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2489 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 Monitor-1: DP-0 size-res: N/A Monitor-2: DP-2 pos: primary res: 2560x1440 dpi: 108 diag: 690mm (27.15") API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: gbm,wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.120 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 1235:8219 Device-4: PreSonus Audio ATOM driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-1:2 chip-ID: 194f:0206 Device-5: Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-2:3 chip-ID: b58e:9e84 API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-53-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse) Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: Bluetooth: Device-1: ASUSTek Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0b05:17cb Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: bt-v: 4.0 lmp-v: 6 sub-v: 220e Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 165.04 GiB (7.1%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: temp: 42.9 C ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: Partition: ID-1: / size: 921.69 GiB used: 165.01 GiB (17.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 95 MiB used: 32.7 MiB (34.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: 38.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 48 C Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% Repos: Packages: 2166 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2160 pm: flatpak pkgs: 6 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/1password.list 1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/1password-archive-keyring.gpg] https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian/amd64 stable main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com xia main upstream import backport 2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse Info: Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.7 GiB used: 4.1 GiB (6.5%) Processes: 470 Power: uptime: 15m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.34
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Ah thanks. I will do that
I have pretty similar hardware, but I do not have an NVIDIA card. Can confirm that Bluetooth is pretty dog shit most of the time, but I generally use wired accessories (preference). I did have some pretty good luck with an ASUS bluetooth adapter which worked better than the onboard one. Controllers work great with steam both wireless (save BT issues) and wired. I also run Fedora on all my machines so I couldn't speak to anything Mint specific but I have been running Linux for a very long time and have found that some distros have better support for newer hardware than others.
Mint is fantastic and that community does great work, all systems I manage that I do not own (family) run Mint. It is what i would recommend for any new linux user. However, for your use-case it might not be a terrible idea to give something else a try (if you haven't already).
There will always be troubleshooting that needs to be done regardless of the OS, as others have said, hardware manufacturers do not take (desktop) Linux seriously unfortunately.
Thanks for the response. If I can figure this controller thing out I think I am good. But yeah I may try another distro if needed
Can I ask how you have steam installed? IIRC Mint does not use snapd so is it via flatlak or apt? If it's Flatpak it could be that the flatpak doesn't have the appropriate access to dbus which can be changed with something like Warehouse or Flatseal.
I typically perfer a native .deb (or .rpm in my case) for something like steam.
I believe I had it installed as a flatpak and I definitely do now that I'm on POP Os. Do you think I should switch?