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Linux Mint - NOT "Usable Out of the Box" - Probably switching back to Windows (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My time with Linux has been equal parts amazing and absolutely infuriating. Linux Mint is NOT usable out of the box. Here have been my issues:

Nvidia GPU - Trying to figure out how to get the drivers working was a nightmare with ten million different people giving different advice on how to get it to work. Eventually I was able to get them signed and it seems to work

Bluetooth - Another nightmare. Bluetooth is terrible on Linux. It took hours to get it even remotely working ok, but I still don't think it's perfect.

Compatibility - Some things just straight up don't work for seemingly no reason. None of my controllers work with Steam, no matter how many countless hours I've spent troubleshooting.

And that is where I am disappointed. Troubleshooting Linux issues sucks. There are so many people giving their opinions and all of them are different and most don't work.

When Linux is working right it is amazing, and I love it. But right now, it just isn't as good as Windows and extremely infuriating more often than not. Guess I am going to switch back and give Bill Gates all of my info again. Really fucking disappointing

Update: Controllers seem to work after forcing compatibility mode in Steam. No idea why that was off or why Steam was essentially hijacking my controller, but it seems to work now. For everyone that helped thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have issues with your controllers with the flatpak I would try switching to the native package. There should be a .deb package for steam. If it doesn't change the behavior, then I would assume something else is causing a problem.

You can also install flatseal and try messing with the dbus setting, should be like half way down the menu for the steam flatpak. Since flatpaks are usually not given access to the entire system I could see it not having the correct permissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! I tried switching to the deb package and it was all the same issues. I think I got it working though. Just forced compatibility in Steam and it eventually worked. Still don't fully understand why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Glad you got it working! I turn that setting on for all my games and I honestly didn't even think about asking if you had it on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

No worries! I appreciate the help